Ingrid Newkirk Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• 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.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Suffering, Principles

• 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.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Land, Water

  "You Can’t Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist". The Huffington Post Article, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

• 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?

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Believe, Animal, Bird

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Februry 26, 2013.

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

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Suffering, World

• Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Mean, Eye, Animal

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

• 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.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Animal, Whales

  "Soldiering On, Part I: PETA at 20 Years". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. November/December 2000.

• 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.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Girl, Dog, Horse

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

• 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.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Hurt, Mean, Thinking

  "In the Hot Seat, Part II: Activism and Controversy". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. January 2001.

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