Explore Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk

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.

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.

Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

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.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

Cheap meat is the problem. The answer is to replace meat recipes with vegan meals.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.