Ingrid Newkirk Quotes

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

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

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

Everything we do is based at adults.

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.

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

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

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

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.

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

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.

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

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

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

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

We are complete press sluts.

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

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.

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

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

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

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,

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

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

We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.