- Relational literacy: Understanding of and ability to practice healthy ways of relating.
- The common factor in problems in society and personal lives is the dysfunctional ways of relating to other people, as social groups, as ourselves, to other animals, to the environment, etc.
- Infighting in the animal justice movement is the result of relationship dysfunction.
- Relational literacy is made up from one key factor: healthy relating. In an healthy interaction, we practice integrity and honour dignity. Practicing the values of compassion and justice and dignity is the sense of inherent self-worth.
- Shame causes emotional dysregulation. Highlight the contradiction of someone's actions and behaviour with their empathy.
- Benjamin Lay: the first anti-speciesist.
- Ravenous 1999 film about cannibalism.