Advocating anarchy.
“We will break the law and destroy property [in our campaign against animal research] until we win.”
- Steven Best , July 2005.
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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
Killing animals and humans are the same.
“The killing of an animal and the killing of a human are morally equal.”
- Jerry Vlasak
Comparing slaughtering animals with the Holocaust.
“Like the victims of the Holocaust, animals are rounded up, trucked hundreds of miles to the kill floor and slaughtered. Comparisons to the Holocaust are not only appropriate but inescapable because, whether we wish to admit it or not, cows, chickens, pigs and turkeys are as capable of feeling loneliness, fear, pain, joy and affection as we are. To those who defend the modern-day holocaust on animals by saying that animals are slaughtered for food and give us sustenance, I ask: If the victims of the Holocaust had been eaten, would that have justified the abuse and murder? Did the fact that lamp shades, soaps and other ‘useful’ products were made from their bodies excuse the Holocaust? No. Pain is pain.”
- Stephen R. Dujack
Give chimpanzees legal rights.
“If a human four-year-old has what it takes for legal personhood, then a chimpanzee should be able to be a legal person in terms of legal rights.”
- Steven Wise