It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists... by Ingrid Newkirk

It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

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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.

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That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis didn't eat the objects of their derision.

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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

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Winners don't eat wieners. by Ingrid Newkirk

Winners don't eat wieners.

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

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The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind. by Ingrid Newkirk

The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.

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Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

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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?

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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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

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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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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

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We are complete press sluts. by Ingrid Newkirk

We are complete press sluts.

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Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential." by Ingrid Newkirk

Medical research is "immoral even it it's essential."

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Everything we do is based at adults. by Ingrid Newkirk

Everything we do is based at adults.

Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day.

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Cows are gentle, interesting animals. by Ingrid Newkirk

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

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Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes... by Ingrid Newkirk

Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

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[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their usefulness, or perceived usefulness, to us, but rather whether we have a right to use them at all.

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