“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 <br class="br">2000

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