Ingrid Newkirk Quotes

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  • 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.

    Dog   Cousin   Animal  
    "What the AKC Won’t Tell You About Its Top 10 Breeds" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.
  • Everything we do is based at adults.

    Adults  
    "Is It Time to Investigate Investigator?; PETA Celebrates American Meat-Out Day". "Crossfire" with Bill Press and Tucker Carlson, edition.cnn.com. March 21, 2002.
  • Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

    Dog   Cat   Animal  
    "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.
  • 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.

    "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.
  • It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

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

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

    "The ‘Real Milk’ Campaign Hopes To Make Real Suckers Out Of Us" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2012.
  • 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.

    Ingrid Newkirk's keynote address at the "Animal Rights" conference, 2002.
  • Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

    "Harper's Magazine", August 1, 1988.
  • 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.

    "Buyer Beware! The Lowdown on ‘Humane’ Meat and Eggs" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2012.
  • One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

    Animal   Pet   Ends  
    "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.
  • 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.

    Veg Family, March 2003.
  • Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

    "Top Scientific Minds Declare That We Are Just One Among Many Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.
  • 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.

    Eggs   Tofu   Ingredients  
    "Buyer Beware! The Lowdown on 'Humane' Meat and Eggs" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2012.
  • Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

    Eggs   Meat   Devastation  
    "You Can’t Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.
  • Winners don't eat wieners.

  • [I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their usefulness, or perceived usefulness, to us, but rather whether we have a right to use them at all.

    Nature   Believe   Animal  
  • 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.

    "Soldiering On, Part I: PETA at 20 Years". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. November/December 2000.
  • Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

    Animal   Tests   Compare  
    "Top Scientific Minds Declare That We Are Just One Among Many Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.
  • Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

    Cancer   Earth   Faces  
    Washingtonian magazine, February 1, 1990.
  • 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.

    Pain   Animal   Joy  
    "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.
  • I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

    Animal   Research   Labs  
    "New York Daily News" Newspaper, December 7, 1997.
  • Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

    Meat   Meals   Answers  
    "Here’s a Recipe for Roast Chicken Everyone Should Find Objectionable" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.
  • 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.

    Girl   Dog   Horse  
    "THINK TANK; Yes, but Did Anyone Ask The Animals' Opinion?" by Sarah Boxer, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 2001.
  • 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.

    "Running of the Bulls: A Festival Worth Fleeing From" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2011.
  • In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

    Thinking   Pet   Lovely  
    "Newsday" Newspaper, February 21, 1988.
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