Explore Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk

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.

Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

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.

Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

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.

If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway. But it would wake up consumers... I openly hope that it comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment.

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything.

I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it.

Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.