Ingrid Newkirk
British-born animal rights activist, and the co-founder and current president of PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization.
Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
If anyone did that, I absolutely apologize. ... Because everything we do is based at adults. We're asking adults be responsible. You were telling me about giving your children meat and milk. They're going to be to grow up to be tubs of lard. They're getting heart attacks.
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
We do not advocate "right to life" for animals.
There is no hidden agenda. If anybody wonders about — what’s this with all these reforms — you can hear us clearly. Our goal is total animal liberation.
Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses.
Sometimes the only kind option for some animals is to put them to sleep forever.
Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.
We are complete press sluts.
In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.
You don't 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.
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.