Top 100 Ingrid Newkirk Quotes

#1. Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

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#2. 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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#3. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.

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#4. Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

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#5. If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

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#6. Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

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#7. 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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#8. We would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

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

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#10. Winners don't eat wieners.

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#11. I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything.

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#12. To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

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#13. U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

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

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#15. It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

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#16. At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

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#17. PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

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#18. Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.

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#19. Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

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#20. The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind,

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#21. 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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#22. I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

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

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#24. No movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component' ... Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

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#25. I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

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#26. We do not advocate right to life for animals.

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#27. Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

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#28. 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.

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#29. 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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#30. I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

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#34. 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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#35. Euthanasia is the kindest gift to a dog or cat unwanted and unloved.

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#36. We're looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.

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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

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#40. Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

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#41. Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.

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#42. When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

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#43. It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

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#44. Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

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#45. Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

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

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

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#48. Everything we do is based at adults.

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#49. Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

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#50. If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.

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#51. Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

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#55. 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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#56. A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

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#57. Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.

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#58. Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

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#59. I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite ... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as a Luddite
which used to think I was not. And now I think Ned Lud had the right idea and we should have stopped all the machinery way back when, and learned to live simple lives.

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#60. Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

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#61. Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

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#62. I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

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#63. It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

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#64. 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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#65. Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.

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#66. One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.

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#67. Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

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#68. All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

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#69. Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

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#70. We are complete press sluts.

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#71. 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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#72. 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.

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#73. Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

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

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#75. Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

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#76. Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

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

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

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

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#80. Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

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

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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.

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

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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.

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

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#91. 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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#92. It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.

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#93. Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

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#94. 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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#95. Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

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#99. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

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#100. Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

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