Ingrid Newkirk Quotes

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• Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
• Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.
• 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…
• Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.
• 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.…
• In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether,
• Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.
• I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog;…
• If that hideousness came here [to the U.S.], it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals-they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway.…
• Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it,
• 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.
• 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…
• The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should…
• You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and…
• Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.
• 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…
• We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.
• 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…
• 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…
• Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

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