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Top 57 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ingrid Newkirk
Ingrid Newkirk Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We're looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.
When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.
Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.
Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.
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.
It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.
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.
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?
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
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.
Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
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.
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.
Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.