Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
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… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
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...… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops...… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
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… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I find that as I get older I seem to become more of a Luddite... And hearing animal experimenters describe me as… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
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… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
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… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image