"The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human
being."
-Ingrid Newkirk, PETA
"My ideal is a return to the garden of Eden where even the animals are
vegetarian."
-Andrea Reed, Louisville Fund for Animals
(_Lexington_Herald_, 1990)
"We feel animals have the same rights as a retarded human child."
-Alex Pacheco (PETA)
(_New_York_Times_, Jan 14, 1989)
"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human
manipulation."
-Ingrid Newkirk, PETA
(_Washingtonian_Magazine_, August 1986)
"Humanity is the cancer of nature."
-Dave Foreman, Earth First!
"If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make any
difference to me."
-Chris Derose, founder and director of Last Chance for Animals
"The liberation of animal life can only be achieved through the radical
transformation of human consciousness and the overthrow of the existing
power structure."
-Transpecies Unlimited
(_Readers_Digest_, June 1990)
"The animal rights movement is part of a revolutionary process aimed at
restructuring the major institution of society...."
-Dr. Morgan, Mobilization for Animals
"Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are acceptable crimes
when used for the animals' cause."
-Alex Pacheco (PETA)
(_Charleston,_W._VA_Gazette-Mail_, Jan 15, 1989)
"I believe that this decade will see the first acts of true violence. Some
may be accidental - like a bystander killed in a bomb blast; some will be
deliberate - like a vivesector shot in the street. The violence will
confuse and divide us, but it will be a temporary adjustment and then we
will learn to live with it."
-Victoria Miller, ARKI: Canadian Animal Rights Network, and former
President, Toronto Humane Society
"The optimum human population of earth is zero."
-Dave Foreman, Earth First!
"The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears."
-Dave Foreman, Earth First!
Q:
What would happen...you have a child...the child is dying of diabetes.
It needs an insulin injection. The only way to get it is from a lamb. Do
you kill the lamb in order to get the insulin so you can save the child,
or do you let the child die?
A:
Well, I...would not even for my self...or for...I would not knowingly
have an animal hurt for me or my children, or anything else.
-Cleveland Amory, Fund for Animals
(_Larry_King_Show_, October 29, 1987)
"Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, We'd be against it."
-Ingrid Newkirk, PETA
"Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is
no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat
is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
"The life of an ant and the life of my child should be granted equal
consideration."
Michael Fox - Vice President, HSUS
"Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt...We are not here to
gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold
the radical line."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
"One day we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.
(Dogs) would pursue their natural lives in the wild...They would have full
lives, not waiting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet
them and then sit there and watch TV."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
"...Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return
to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
Question to PETA Outreach Coordinator Susan Rich:
"If you were aboard a
lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, which would you
rescue?"
Rich's answer:
"I wouldn't know for sure...I might choose the human baby
or I might choose the dog."
Steve Kane Show WIOD-AM Radio Miami, FL Feb, 23, 1989
-In response to Animal Liberation Front violence in the Pacific Northwest:
"We cannot condemn the Animal Liberation Front...they act courageously,
risking their freedom and their careers to stop the terror inflicted every
day on animals in the labs. [ALF's activities] comprise an important part
of today's animal protection movement."
-PETA statement
"We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. They are
creations of human selective breeding."
Wayne Pacelle
Animal People
"If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would."
Wayne Pacelle - formerly of Friends of Animals
When asked which he would save, a dog or a baby, if a boat capsized in the
ocean:
"If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog."
Tom Regan
North Carolina State University
Q & A session following speech
"Animal Rights, Human Wrongs"
U of Wisconsin-Madison
Oct. 27, 1989
So tell me again that we have nothing to worry about
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