Peta Quotes

• A veterinarian who naively gave PETA some of the animals, thinking they would find them homes, and examined the dead bodies of others, testified that they were 'healthy' and 'adoptable.'

  Nathan Winograd

  Home, Animal, Thinking

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• 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.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Dozen, Sometimes

  "Mother nature (part one)" by Michael Specter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2003.

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

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Years, House, Six

  "Has PETA Gone Too Far With Billboard Featuring Mayor Giuliani?". "Crossfire" with Bill Press and Mary Matalin, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2000.

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• If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.

  Tom Regan

  Dog, Baby, Retarded

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• 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.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Animal, Boys

  Vogue, September 1, 1989.

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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.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Growing Up, Pain

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• To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

  Romain Rolland

  Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

  Romain Rolland (1913). “Jean-Christophe: The market-place”

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

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Right To Life

  "PETA's Sinister Interpretation of Animal 'Rights'" by Douglas Anthony Cooper, www.huffingtonpost.ca. July 3, 2012.

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• 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.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Lines, Publicity

  "USA Today" Newspaper, September 3, 1991.

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

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Wish, Labs

  Ingrid Newkirk's remarks at the National Animal Rights Convention, June 27, 1997.

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• It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Fighting, Animal, Goal

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

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Manipulation

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

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• 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.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Baby, Dog, Children

  "New Yorker" Magazine, April 23, 2003.

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• We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Extinction, Problem

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• I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.

  Pink

  Animal, People, Shelter

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• We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Generations, Extinction

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• If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Sports, Animal, Hunting

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• 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 careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Light, Careers

  "The Chronicle of Higher Education" Newspaper, November 12. 1999.

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• Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Research, Fascism

  "Washingtonian" Magazine, August 1986.

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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, Interest

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• PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die ever and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Animal, Thinking, Stressed

  "Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook". Book by Anthony Bourdain, 2010.

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

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Lasts, Liberation

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

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• I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are.

  Peta Wilson

  Anorexia, Secret, Anorexics

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• Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Always Wrong, Humans

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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