Ingrid Newkirk Quotes - Page 3

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• We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Law, Peta

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• Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

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  Research, Fascism, Confinement

  Washingtonian Magazine, August 1986.

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

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  Animal, Pet, Ends

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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• 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.

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

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  Smart, Vision, Hearing

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.

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  Animal, Car, People

  India Together, July 2000.

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• 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?

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  Believe, Animal, Bird

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

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• Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

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  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Average

  "The Skinny on our Growing Girth" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Sptember 26,2009.

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• 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.

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  People, Interesting, Important

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

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• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

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  School, Medicine, Choices

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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

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  Animal, Detectives, Dangerous

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• 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.

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  Running, Fighting, Knowing

  "Running of the Bulls: A Festival Worth Fleeing From" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Animal, Simple, Thinking

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• Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

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  Cancer, Earth, Faces

  Washingtonian magazine, February 1, 1990.

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

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  Real, Vegetables, Healthy

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

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• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

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  Dog, Growing Up, Pain

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

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  Vegetarian, Environment, Century

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• 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.

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  Cows, Vitamin D, Vitamins

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

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• 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.

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  Cities, Pigeons, Facts

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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

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  Animal, Lasts, Peta

  "The New York Daily News" Newspaper, December 7, 1997.

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• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

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  Bird, Racing, Pigeons

  "Mike Tyson’s Show Is a Bad Bet" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

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  Religious, Pain, Animal

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• If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.

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  Thinking, President, Needs

  "The Washington Times" Newspaper, August 29, 1999.

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• Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

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  Eggs, Meat, Care

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

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

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  Eggs, Meat, Devastation

  "You Can’t Be a Meat-Eating Environmentalist" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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