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NFC: peta quotes
Hey next time anyone from PETA comes sniffing around the NFC, understand
what kind of an organization you're dealing with. Check out these quotes
from prominent PETA leaders.
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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)
* * *
The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human
being.
-Ingrid Newkirk, PETA
* * *
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler
chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.
-Ingrid Newkirk (PETA)
(_Washington_Post_, Nov 13, 1983)
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We feel animals have the same rights as a retarded human child.
-Alex Pacheco (PETA)
(_New_York_Times_, Jan 14, 1989)
* * *
On leather jackets: That's the next step. You have to take one step at a
time. It was easier to start with fur.
-Dan Matthews, Director of Fur Campaign, PETA
(_Detroit_News_, August 13, 1989)
* * *
Never buy wool again. Choose only cotton, synthetics and other non-animal
fibers. The sheep are embarrassed when they are shorn, sometimes they are
nicked during the process, and they get cold afterward.
(_PETA_News_, August 13, 1989)
* * *
Pet ownership is an "absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human
manipulation."
-Ingrid Newkirk, PETA
(_Washingtonian_Magazine_, August 1986)
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Humanity is the cancer of nature.
-Dave Foreman, Earth First!
* * *
Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.
-John Muir, Founder of the Sierra Club
* * *
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)
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The animal rights movement is "part of a revolutionary process aimed at
restructuring the major institution of society....
-Dr. Morgan, Mobilization for Animals
(from his book, _Love_and_Anger_, an animal "rights" organizers handbook)
* * *
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
(_Animals_Agenda_)
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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!
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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)
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Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, "We'd be against it."
-Ingrid Newkirk, PETA
(_Washington_Post_, May 30, 1989)
* * *
"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
As quoted in Vogue, September, 1989
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"The life of an ant and the life of my child should be granted equal
consideration."
Michael Fox - Vice President, HSUS
* * *
"Humans have grown like cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of
the planet."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
Reader's Digest, June, 1990
* * *
"I am not a morose person but I would rather not be here. I don't have any
reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a
blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again, but at
least I wouldn't be harming anything."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
Washington Post, November 13, 1983
* * *
"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
USA Today, September 3, 1991
* * *
"Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of
confinement is traumatizing in itself."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
Washington Magazine, August, 1986
* * *
"It (animal research) is immoral even if it is essential."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
Washington Post, May 30, 1989
"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought on by human
manipulation."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
Washington Magazine, August 1986
* * *
"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
"Where Would We Be Without Animals?, Chicago Daily Herald, March 1, 1990
* * *
"...Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return
to a more symbiotic relationship, enjoyment at a distance."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
Harpers, August, 1988
* * *
"We have a lazy, sick society. People bring diseases on themselves.
[People should] avoid getting the disease in the first place."
Dan Mathews - PETA spokesperson
USA Today, July 27, 1994
* * *
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 a perfect world, all other than human animals would be free of human
interference, dogs and cats would part of the ecological scheme."
PETA's Statement on Companion Animals
* * *
-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 - June 19, 1991
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"Homelessness drives me crazy! I take responsibility for everything that
happens to me. Everyone can pull themselves up. I have more sympathy for
animals because they
don't deserve anything that happens to them. They're innocent."
PETA member -
"What Becomes a Zealot Most?" GQ Magazine November 1993
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"We're not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and
animals."
Michael Fox - Washingtonian Magazine February 1990
* * *
"Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish and unethical animal on
earth."
Michael Fox
The Intellectual Activist Sept. 14, 1983
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-(Expressing opposition to use of bug sprays) "Only a few of the million
you kill would have bitten you."
Michael Fox
Returning to Eden - Fox Publication
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"We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of
livestock produced through selective breeding. ...One generation and out.
We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. They are
creations of human selective breeding."
Wayne Pacelle
Animal People May 1993
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"If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would."
Wayne Pacelle - formerly of Friends of Animals -
Impassioned Agitator - Associated Press - Dec. 30, 1991
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"If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot
learn,then so be it... We have no basic right...not to be harmed by those
natural diseases we are heir to."
Tom Regan
North Carolina State University
The Case for Animal Rights, 1983
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"It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages;
not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in
the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the
total eradication of these barbarous practices."
Tom Regan
North Carolina State University
The Philosophy of Animal Rights, 1989
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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
* * *
"Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals
presently endure if research on these animals is stopped, the animal
rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total
abolition."
Tom Regan
North Carolina State University
The Case for Animal Rights, 1983