[johnny]

I just don't believe that animals are above humans, or humans are above animals. So many people talk about how animals are this gracious gift to the earth and should be protected and honored and worshiped or whatever, and I don't think that. I think animals and humans are equal, because humans are just as animal as they are. They're just as much a part of the ecosystem as a coyote or a rabbit. If a certain species eats another species out of existence, no one bats an eye because that's nature and that's what nature does, but for some reason if humans do that, it's the most awful thing in the universe.

Now, I love animals and I love nature - I'm a pantheist, I think nature = god and we should respect it and everything. Wolves are my favorite animals in the entire world, I don't like seeing them get killed or hunted and I think the people, like in Alaska, who do the "wolf hunt by helicopter" thing are awful. At the same time, people have just as much a right to make a living - and that living might be as a sheep rancher, or a cattle rancher, or what have you - and if the wolves are overpopulating and damaging the person's livelihood, it's kind of silly to say that the wolves should be the winners and be allowed to roam free, killing all the livestock.