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Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

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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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
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We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.
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The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
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Never doubt that one person can make a difference.
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I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.
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You dont 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.
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Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.
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If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.
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Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.
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Everything we do is based at adults.
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Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.
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That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those others they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis didn't eat the objects of their derision.
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We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants.
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Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.
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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 am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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