Ingrid Newkirk: Quotes about animals (page 2)

“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.”

Ingrid Newkirk

India Together, July, 2000 http://www.indiatogether.org/reports/peta/newkirk.htm
2000

People , Cars , Way , Nature

“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

The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999 November 12.
After The Justice Department mailed 87 razor blade–laced threats to medical researchers studying news drugs on primates.
On animal research and activism against it

Idea , Light , Time , Animals

“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

Satya, November, 2000 http://www.satyamag.com/novdec00/newkirk.html

Thinking , Fish , Suffering , Animals

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

Ingrid Newkirk

"National Animal Rights Convention", 1997 June 27.
On animal research and activism against it

Animals

“More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone’s attention.”

Ingrid Newkirk

The Boston Herald, 2002 August 25.
2002

Animals

“I don’t use the word 'pet.' I think it’s speciesist language. I prefer 'companion animal.”

Ingrid Newkirk

For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding. People could not create different breeds. There would be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in their homes, those animals would have to be refugees from the animal shelters and the streets. You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship — enjoyment at a distance.
The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p. 223.
1980s

Animals , Thinking