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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.

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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Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.
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If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means... Yeah but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.
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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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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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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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Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.
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Medical research is immoral even it it's essential.
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
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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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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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We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.
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If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.
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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism...
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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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Everything we do is based at adults.
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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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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
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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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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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