156 Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk

If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day – at every meal.

Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow’s udder.

Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it’s probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.

Humans have grown like a cancer. We’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

There’s nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today’s factory farms.

I think if you’re against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.

At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn’t just about them; it’s about us, how we behave.

The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being.

I don’t have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else’s dog.