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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?
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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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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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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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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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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