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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.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Ingrid Newkirk
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 11
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Animal Rights Advocate
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Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk
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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...
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Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.
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Medical research is immoral even it it's essential.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].
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We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.
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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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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.
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Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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The bottom line is that people dont have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.
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Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
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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.
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Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.
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When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.
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Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.
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I have to think of the positive that's how I cope.
Ingrid Newkirk
