Comparing animal treatment to slavery and the Holocaust.
“[The] treatment of animals is outrageous. [It's as] bad as slavery or the Holocaust.”
- Alicia Silverstone
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Animals and retarded children have the same rights.
“We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded children.”
- Alex Pacheco , January 14, 1989.
The animal cause is worth breaking the law.
“Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are ‘acceptable crimes’ when used for the animal cause.”
- Alex Pacheco , 1989.
We will stop hunting in the U.S.
“If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would. [. . .] Only 7% of Americans are hunters. That means there are more of us than there are of them. It is simply a matter of democracy. The majority rules in a democracy. We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States. . . We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state.”
- Wayne Pacelle , 12-30-91.
Equating Jews and chickens.
“Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses.”
- Ingrid Newkirk , 1983.
We’re against all tests on animals.
“Even if animal tests produced a cure [for AIDS], ‘we’d be against it.’”
- Ingrid Newkirk
Humans don’t have a right to life.
“I don’t believe human beings have the ‘right to life.’ That’s a supremacist perversion. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”
- Ingrid Newkirk , August 1, 1986.
Dogs are more important than people.
“To those people who say, ‘My father is alive because of animal experimentation,’ I say, ‘Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.’ Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of tradeoff.”
- Bill Maher
Chickens have rights like humans do.
“Chickens are interesting individuals who have as much right not to be cooked and eaten as a dog or a cat or even a human being.”
- Bruce Friedrich
Fast food places, slaughterhouses, and labs should blow up.
“It would be great if all the fast food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.”
- Bruce Friedrich , July 2001.