Ingrid Newkirk Quotes

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• I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

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  Animal, Dozen, Sometimes

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• Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

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  Food, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.

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  Animal, Elephants, Voice

  Veg Family, March 2003.

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• Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

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  Animal, Pet, Slavery

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• The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental.

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  Mean, Race, Dwelling

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• In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

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  Thinking, Pet, Lovely

  "Newsday" Newspaper, February 21, 1988.

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• I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.

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  Animal, Trying, Gone

  "Mother nature (part two)". Interview with Michael Specter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2003.

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• Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...

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  Animal, Research, Peta

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1986.

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• Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

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  Animal, Pet, Manipulation

  "Harper's Magazine", August 1, 1988.

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• The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

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  Ants, Clams, Form

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• If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

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  Animal, Land, Water

  "You Can’t Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist". The Huffington Post Article, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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• Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

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  Years, House, Six

  "Has PETA Gone Too Far With Billboard Featuring Mayor Giuliani?". "Crossfire" with Bill Press and Mary Matalin, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2000.

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

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  Dog, Pain, Animal

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1, 1986.

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• Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.

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  Animal, Tests, Aids

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• You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.

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  Dog, Home, Animal

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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• When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

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  Dog, Pain, Loneliness

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• There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

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  Animal, Two, Three

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• Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.

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  Animal, Suffering, Principles

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• All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

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  Silent, Cruelty, Tyranny

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• We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.

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  Animal, Peta, Right To Life

  "PETA's Sinister Interpretation of Animal 'Rights'" by Douglas Anthony Cooper, www.huffingtonpost.ca. July 3, 2012.

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• We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants.

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  Home, Animal, People

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• Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

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  Eating Meat, Arrogant, Animal Rights

  "Washington City Paper" Newspaper, December 20, 1985.

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• I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

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  Baby, Dog, Children

  "New Yorker" Magazine, April 23, 2003.

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• One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

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  Animal, Pet, Ends

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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• Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

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  Animal, Lines, Publicity

  "USA Today" Newspaper, September 3, 1991.

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