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Asked if Vlasak wants someone to go out there and kill, Vlasak says, "I want people who care about animals to do what's necessary to stop their exploitation, to stop their suffering."

Vlasak says someone who believes that the life of an animal is not akin to the life of a human being is "species-ist."

Species-ists, he says, are akin to racists or sexists. Animals, he says, should be accorded the same rights as human beings, despite their place on the food chain.

"Just like at one time black humans were considered property. Well, dogs, cats and all other animals in our society are still considered property," Vlasak says.

Asked who he thinks is fair game, Vlasak says, "Well, I think anybody that tortures animals for a living or for a profit and who won't stop when they're asked to and won't stop."

Does that include researchers who are testing and performing tests using animals?"

"Animal researchers, slaughterhouse workers, the head of the corporation that slaughters hundreds of millions of chickens every single year for the taste of their flesh," says Vlasak.

Well, people like chicken.

"People liked owning slaves too, okay. That doesn't make it right," Vlasak said.

Vlasak says it's very straightforward in his mind.

"We don't live in a country where it's okay to kill people if we don't necessarily. Like what they're doing. If we have someone who actively embraces this then what's next?" says John Lewis.

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