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born 1949 England

Ingrid Newkirk (born July 11, 1949) is a British-born animal rights activist, and the co-founder and current president of PETA, the world's largest animal rights organization.

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Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I’d be against it on moral grounds.

It [animal research] is immoral even if it's essential.

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

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

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.

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

Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses.

I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong.

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

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

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.

More power to [Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty] if they can get someone’s attention.

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.

When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

There is no hidden agenda. If anybody wonders about — what’s this with all these reforms — you can hear us clearly. Our goal is total animal liberation.

We do not advocate "right to life" for animals.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ingrid Newkirk (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.