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Ingrid Newkirk Biography

Ingrid E. Newkirk (born June 11, 1949) is an English-born British-American animal rights activist and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world's largest animal rights organization. She is the author of several books, including Making Kind Choices (2005) and The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights: Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble (2009). 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 create the first spay/neuter clinic in Washington, D.C., as well as an adoption program and the public funding of veterinary services, leading her to be among those chosen in 1980 as Washingtonians of the Year.

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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.

Animal, Earth, Land, Meal, Resources, Water

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

Animal, Cared, Joy, Pain, Story

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Animal, Boy, Dog, Nervous, Pain, Pig

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.

Animal, Asked, Eye, Mean, Saucers, Treatment

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

Animal, Animals, Eat, Ownership, Pet, Slavery

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?

Dying, Home, Shelter, Shelters

Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

Heart, Differences, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarians, Risk, Percent

Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

Cities, Pigeons, Facts, Fact, Maligned, Turned

If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.

Girl, Dog, Horse, Thinks, Cares, Suffer

If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.

Forward, Gore, President, Round, Steps, Thinking

I am 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.

Baby, Children, Dog, Having, Purebred, Vanity

If that hideousness came here [to the U. S. ], 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.

Animal, Animals, Bound, Harm, Heart, People

Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.

Ending, Fighting, Forced, Knowing, Nothing, Running

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

Abysmal, Animal, Brought, Manipulation, Ownership, Pet

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

Cancer, Costs, Heart, Person, Running, Think

The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental.

Dwelling, Human, Mean, Race, Species, Survival

Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.

Animal, Thinking, Whales, Needs, Chickens, Eggs

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Cruelty, Silent, Tyranny, Whenever, Wrong

Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.

Milk, Cows, Vitamin D, Hormones, Cholesterol, Dairy

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.

France, Gras, Handbags, Plan, Skins

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