Ingrid Newkirk Quotes - Page 4

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• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

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  Dog, Cuddling, Luxury

  "In the Hot Seat, Part II: Activism and Controversy". Satya Interview, www.satyamag.com. January 2001.

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• If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.

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  Eggs, Tofu, Ingredients

  "Buyer Beware! The Lowdown on 'Humane' Meat and Eggs" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2012.

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• It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

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  People, Faces, Facts

  "You Can’t Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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• The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether

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  Horse, Animal, Race

  "Thoroughbreds: From Elite to Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 5, 2011.

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• Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Fire, Eggs

  "Here’s a Recipe for Roast Chicken Everyone Should Find Objectionable" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

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  Animal, Ideas, Next

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• Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

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  Differences, Doubt, Making A Difference

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• Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Light, Careers

  "The Chronicle of Higher Education" Newspaper, November 12. 1999.

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• Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

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  Dog, Dirty, Cat

  "Hoarders : Stepping Out of Your TV Set Into Your Local Shelter" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2010.

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• Look out for your baby or your friend, of course. That is easy. The test of moral fiber is to stick up for those you relate to least, understand minimally, and do not think are that much like you.

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  Baby, Thinking, Moral Fiber

  Ingrid Newkirk's keynote address at the "Animal Rights" conference, 2002.

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• Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.

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  Thinking, Animal, Whales

  "Soldiering On, Part I: PETA at 20 Years". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. November/December 2000.

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• That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis didn't eat the objects of their derision.

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  Labs, Nazi, Subjects

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

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• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

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  Dog, Cousin, Animal

  "What the AKC Won’t Tell You About Its Top 10 Breeds" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.

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• We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

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  Thinking, Important, Special

  "Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.

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  Hurt, Mean, Thinking

  "In the Hot Seat, Part II: Activism and Controversy". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. January 2001.

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• The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.

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  Be Kind, Wonderful, Easy

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• Winners don't eat wieners.

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  Animal, Animal Rights, Winner

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• I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong.

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  Thinking, Illegal, Trespassing

  Montgomery County, MD, Journal, February 16, 1988.

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• When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

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  Heart, Animal, Labs

  "To Market, To Market". Los Angeles Times Magazine, March 22, 1992.

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• I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.

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  Animal, Wish, Labs

  Ingrid Newkirk's remarks at the National Animal Rights Convention, June 27, 1997.

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• More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone's attention.

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  Animal, Attention, Cruelty

  The Boston Herald, August 25, 2002.

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• Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.

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  Thinking, Animal, Voice

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• Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

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  Animal, Numbers, America

  "Buyer Beware! The Lowdown on ‘Humane’ Meat and Eggs" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

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  Animal, People, Shelter

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

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  Animal, Essentials, Research

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