Pet ownership is unacceptable.
“Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.”
- Ingrid Newkirk , August 1988.
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Laboratories that perform experiments on animals should burn.
“I find it small wonder that the laboratories [where they do scientific experiments on animals] aren’t all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I’d light a march.”
- Ingrid Newkirk , November 12, 1999.
Advocating violence to stop tests on animals.
“In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It’s a war and there’s no other way you can stop vivisectors.”
- Tim Daley
Advocating anarchy.
“We will break the law and destroy property [in our campaign against animal research] until we win.”
- Steven Best , July 2005.
Animals rights.
“The major success of this decade [the 1980s] has been the reapplication of the concept of rights in the human population to nonhuman species.”
- John Kullberg
Equating man with animals.
“We’re not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals.”
- Michael W. Fox
We shouldn’t use animals to cure human diseases.
“If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn’t make any difference to me.”
- Chris DeRose
Get rid of dogs.
“[Pets] are like slaves, even if well-kept slaves. . . . Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles — from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave it.”
- John Bryant , 1982.
It’s okay if mountain lions eat people.
“But now we know that if we’re going to have [mountain lions] around, maybe they’re going to eat us every now and then. I’m comfortable with that, but a lot of people may not be.”
- Paul Beier
We should do away with hunting.
“Hunting is an antiquated expression of macho self-aggrandizement, with no place in a civilized society.”
- Cleveland Amory