Ingrid Newkirk Quotes

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

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

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

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.

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

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.

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

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

I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong.

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

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

Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

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

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

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 rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

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

I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.

I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

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.

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.

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

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.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

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?

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

Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.

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

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.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

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

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

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

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

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

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.

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

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

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...