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.
Interpretation
The quote advocates for a vegan lifestyle by highlighting the cruelty animals endure in the meat industry.
Ingrid Newkirk emphasizes the moral responsibility of individuals who oppose cruelty to extend their beliefs to their dietary choices. By examining the harsh realities faced by animals in slaughterhouses and factory farms, she argues that one cannot claim to be against cruelty while still consuming meat, thereby calling for a reassessment of ethical eating practices.
In practice
In a speech about animal rights, one might quote this to emphasize the need for dietary change.
[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their usefulness, or perceived usefulness, to us, but rather whether we have a right to use them at all.
It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.
There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
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