Wayne Pacelle Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• I don't have a hands - on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals...

  Wayne Pacelle

  Growing Up, Animal, Hands

  "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt". Book by Ted Kerasote, www.humanewatch.org. 1994.

• Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Care, Sentimental

• If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don't want to see another dog or cat born.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Excerpt from 'Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt,' by Ted Kerasote, www.humanewatch.org. 1994.

• We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Generations, Extinction

• The entire animal rights movement in the United States reacted with unfettered glee at the Ban in England ...We view this act of parliament as one of the most important actions in the history of the animal rights movement. This will energise our efforts to stop hunting with hounds.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Hunting, Rights

• We're against animal fighting and killing animals for fur.... We want Americans to eat fewer animals

  Wayne Pacelle

  Fighting, Animal, Fur

• People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed more ballot measures than we have. They know we have a focused strategy. They know we have a budget of $150 million a year. And they know we're ready for a fight.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Fighting, Animal, Years

• If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Sports, Animal, Hunting

• We believe in the Three Rs - reducing the consumption of meat and other animal-based foods; refining the diet by eating products only from methods of production, transport, and slaughter that minimize pain and distress; and replacing meat and other animal-based foods in the diet with plant-based foods.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Pain, Believe, Animal

• Animals for the most part just need to be left alone.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Needs, Left Alone

  "Wayne Pacelle works for the winged, finned and furry" by Carla Hall, www.latimes.com. July 19, 2008.

• As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. People are being forced, to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Acceptance, Emotional, Animal

  Source: www.progressive.org

• There are many innovators hard at work seeking to perfect alternatives to meat, milk, and eggs. These food products will, like computer-generated graphics or photography or sound systems, just keep getting better and better until there is little difference between an animal-based protein and a plant-based one, or farm-produced versus cultured meat. That will make it easy for people to make the kinds of choices that will usher in a world with far less violence.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Photography, Animal, Eggs

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

• The response by agribusiness interests has been to back laws that ban animal advocates from taking pictures or videos at these facilities, and ban the media from publishing any that are taken. The laws also make it a crime for animal advocates to seek employment at animal enterprises without disclosing their intentions. Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had something to hide.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Taken, Fighting, Animal

  Source: www.progressive.org

• At The Humane Society of the United States, we know how difficult it is to prevent cruelty to animals in movies because so many of the animal welfare problems occur behind the scenes in training, housing, and transportation, long before the animals get on the set.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Long, Training

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

• We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Silly, Animal, Agriculture

• The issue of xenotransplantation - such as transplanting animal organs into humans - is fraught with risks for animals, naturally, and for people.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Issues, People

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

• The Humane Society of the United States works with local Humane Societies across the country. We don't control every local Humane Society in this nation. These organizations strive to the greatest degree to provide homes for animals and to encourage adoption, to spay and neuter animals. And if a decision is made to euthanize, it is a failure of society, not the local organizations who are striving to do their best.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Country, Home, Animal

• We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Extinction, Problem

• The good news is we are seeing an incredible surge in non-animal technologies in laboratories. With researchers using stem cells, visually impaired people may one day have new corneas and lenses grown from their own cells. That is likely to be a more effective and cheaper approach than using animals.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Technology, Cells

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

• As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Organization, Protection

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

• Human creativity and innovation is going to make the exploitation of animals look not only inhumane but obsolete and cumbersome.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Creativity, Animal, Innovation

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

• People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Acceptance, Animal, Reality

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

• Animal abuse is still widespread and we have so much work ahead.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Abuse, Animal Abuse

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

• There are new ways of producing food, film, clothing, and research that steer clear of using animals. Some of those products are functionally equivalent or even superior to what we're used to. Now corporations, legislatures, and other institutions are responding, and supporting these shifts, so we're seeing seismic changes throughout society.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Research, Corporations

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

• The combination of moral intentionality and human innovation is a powerful force. And that's the force behind the humane economy. By embracing its tenets, we help animals, but we also advance commerce in a more sustainable, and profitable, way. I think we have every reason to believe it is the way of the future.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Powerful, Believe, Animal

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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