Ingrid Newkirk
Ingrid Newkirk
Ingrid E. Newkirkis an English-born British-American animal rights activist and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the world's largest animal rights organization. She is the author of several books, including Making Kind Choicesand The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble. Newkirk has worked for the animal-protection movement since 1972. Under her leadership in the 1970s as the District of Columbia's first female poundmaster, legislation was passed to...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth11 June 1949
The tape shows experimenters using their power over the monkeys to torture and torment them, while lab supervisors stand by or even join in,
We're asking kids to get hooked on kindness, not killing,
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.
Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance.
The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being
I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.
That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis didn't eat the objects of their derision.
[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.
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.