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.
The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood.
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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