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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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I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.
Ingrid 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.
Ingrid Newkirk
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk
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We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.
Ingrid Newkirk
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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.
Ingrid 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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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
Ingrid Newkirk
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Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
Ingrid Newkirk
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I have to think of the positive that's how I cope.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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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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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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The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...
Ingrid Newkirk
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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.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
Ingrid Newkirk
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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.
Ingrid Newkirk
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
Ingrid Newkirk