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. Ingrid Newkirk More Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk More Quotes From Ingrid Newkirk 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 dozen animal sometimes Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. Ingrid Newkirk vegetarianism animal food 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. Ingrid Newkirk elephants voice animal Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by. Ingrid Newkirk slavery pet animal The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental. Ingrid Newkirk race dwelling mean In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether. Ingrid Newkirk lovely pet thinking Even painless research is fascism, supremacism... Ingrid Newkirk peta research animal Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation. Ingrid Newkirk manipulation pet animal I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue. Ingrid Newkirk gone animal trying The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being Ingrid Newkirk clams form ants Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. Ingrid Newkirk six house years 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. Ingrid Newkirk pain dog animal Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it. Ingrid Newkirk aids tests animal You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV. Ingrid Newkirk dog home animal When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Ingrid Newkirk pain loneliness dog 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 land animal water 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. Ingrid Newkirk three animal two 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 principles suffering animal 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 dog baby children We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants. Ingrid Newkirk home animal people
