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Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Ingrid Newkirk
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 11
Activist
Animal Rights Advocate
Film Director
Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk
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Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
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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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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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I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.
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Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
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I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.
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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?
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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.
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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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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.
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Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.
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I have to think of the positive that's how I cope.
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
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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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