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"It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals."
Gary Yourofsky, founder of Animals Deserve Adequate Protection
Today and Tomorrow (ADAPTT), now employed as PeTA's national lecturer
"We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us
[Singer or Ingrid Newkirk, PETA founder] had ever been inordinately
fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't
'love' animals." Peter Singer, Animal Liberation:
A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd ed.
(New York Review of Books, 1990), Preface, p. ii.
"Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage."
(Dr. Michael W. Fox, HSUS, in 1988 Newsweek interview)
"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
"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
It is time we demand an end to the misguided and abusive concept
of animal ownership. The first step on this long, but just, road would be
ending the concept of pet ownership"
Elliot Katz, President "In Defense of Animals," Spring 1997
"As John Bryant has written in his book Fettered Kingdoms,
they [pets] are like slaves, even if well-kept slaves."
PETA's Statement on Companion Animals.
"I don't approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves
touching them - caging them" - Dr. Neal Barnard, Physician's Committee for
Responsible Medicine
(a PETA front group)
"Liberating our language by eliminating the word 'pet' is the first step...
In an ideal society where all exploitation and oppression has been
eliminated, it will be NJARA's policy to oppose the keeping of animals
as 'pets.'" New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance,
"Should Dogs Be Kept As Pets? NO!" Good Dog! February 1991, p. 20.
"The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the domestic cat
free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until
our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist."
-- John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic
(Washington, DC: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA), 1982), p. 15
"The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to
breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate
objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own
kind........ .... "I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest
language.
I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops...
Eventually companion animals would be phased out."
- Ingrid Newkirk, national director,
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA),
Harper's Magazine, Aug. 1988
-"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
"My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture. " JP Goodwin,
employed at the Humane Society of the US, formerly at
Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade, as quoted on AR-Views,
an animal rights Internet discussion group in 1996.
"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, Fettered Kingdoms:
An Examination of a Changing Ethic, PETA, 1982, p.15.
"Breeders must be eliminated! As long as there is a surplus of companion
animals in the concentration camps referred to as "shelters", and they are
killing them because they are homeless, one should not be allowed to
produce more for their own amusement and profit. If you know of a breeder
in the Los Angeles area, whether commercial or private, legal or illegal,
let us know and we will post their name, location, phone number so people
can write them letters telling them 'Don't Breed or Buy, While Others DIE.'"
"Breeders! Let's get rid of them too!" Campaign on Animal Defense League's
website, September 2, 2003.
"Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare
separated by irreconcilable differences. .. the enactment of animal welfare
measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare
reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which
animal rights goals are achieved." Gary Francione and Tom Regan,
"A Movement's Means Create Its Ends," The Animals' Agenda,
January/February 1992, pp. 40-42.
"The theory of animal rights is simply not consistent with the theory
of animal welfare or other approaches that reject the rights view and, more
importantly, embrace animal exploitation. Animal rights means dramatic
social changes for humans and nonhumans alike."
(Gary Francione, Director, Rutgers Animal Rights Law Clinic,
The Animals Voice, Vol 4, #2, pp. 54-55)
"...the animal rights movement is not concerned about species extinction.
An elephant is no more or less important than a cow, just as a dolphin is
no more important than a tuna...."
(Barbara Biel, The Animals' Agenda, Vol 15 #3 (summer 1995 issue)
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.
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
-"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
"The life of an ant and the life of my child should be granted equal
consideration. " Michael Fox HSUS President
Inhumane Society Fox Publication
"I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby
is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
"Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler
chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses. " Ingrid Newkirk, founder,
president and former national director,
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, as quoted in Chip Brown,
"She's A Portrait of Zealotry in Plastic Shoes,"
Washington Post, November 13, 1983, p. B10.
"Torturing a human being is almost always wrong,
but it is not absolutely wrong." Peter Singer,
as quoted in Josephine Donovan "Animal Rights and Feminist Theory,"
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Winter 1990, p. 357.
"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
"If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from
pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course we're going to be, as a
movement, blowing things up and smashing windows." Bruce Friedrich,
Vegan Campaign Coordinator of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Animal Rights 2001 Convention,
"There is no hidden agenda. If anybody wonders about -- what's this
with all these reforms -- you can hear us clearly. Our goal is total animal
liberation."
- Ingrid Newkirk, "Animal Rights 2002" convention
Are you as terrified and angry as I am after reading this?
THIS is why we MUST oppose mandatory spay neuter, and Breed Specific Legislation.
These people are slick, well organized, and well funded. We are LOSING, people. Please get involved.
http://www.pet-law.com/
Gary Yourofsky, founder of Animals Deserve Adequate Protection
Today and Tomorrow (ADAPTT), now employed as PeTA's national lecturer
"We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us
[Singer or Ingrid Newkirk, PETA founder] had ever been inordinately
fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't
'love' animals." Peter Singer, Animal Liberation:
A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd ed.
(New York Review of Books, 1990), Preface, p. ii.
"Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage."
(Dr. Michael W. Fox, HSUS, in 1988 Newsweek interview)
"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
"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
It is time we demand an end to the misguided and abusive concept
of animal ownership. The first step on this long, but just, road would be
ending the concept of pet ownership"
Elliot Katz, President "In Defense of Animals," Spring 1997
"As John Bryant has written in his book Fettered Kingdoms,
they [pets] are like slaves, even if well-kept slaves."
PETA's Statement on Companion Animals.
"I don't approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves
touching them - caging them" - Dr. Neal Barnard, Physician's Committee for
Responsible Medicine
(a PETA front group)
"Liberating our language by eliminating the word 'pet' is the first step...
In an ideal society where all exploitation and oppression has been
eliminated, it will be NJARA's policy to oppose the keeping of animals
as 'pets.'" New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance,
"Should Dogs Be Kept As Pets? NO!" Good Dog! February 1991, p. 20.
"The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the domestic cat
free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until
our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist."
-- John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic
(Washington, DC: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA), 1982), p. 15
"The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to
breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate
objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own
kind........ .... "I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest
language.
I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops...
Eventually companion animals would be phased out."
- Ingrid Newkirk, national director,
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA),
Harper's Magazine, Aug. 1988
-"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
"My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture. " JP Goodwin,
employed at the Humane Society of the US, formerly at
Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade, as quoted on AR-Views,
an animal rights Internet discussion group in 1996.
"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, Fettered Kingdoms:
An Examination of a Changing Ethic, PETA, 1982, p.15.
"Breeders must be eliminated! As long as there is a surplus of companion
animals in the concentration camps referred to as "shelters", and they are
killing them because they are homeless, one should not be allowed to
produce more for their own amusement and profit. If you know of a breeder
in the Los Angeles area, whether commercial or private, legal or illegal,
let us know and we will post their name, location, phone number so people
can write them letters telling them 'Don't Breed or Buy, While Others DIE.'"
"Breeders! Let's get rid of them too!" Campaign on Animal Defense League's
website, September 2, 2003.
"Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare
separated by irreconcilable differences. .. the enactment of animal welfare
measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare
reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which
animal rights goals are achieved." Gary Francione and Tom Regan,
"A Movement's Means Create Its Ends," The Animals' Agenda,
January/February 1992, pp. 40-42.
"The theory of animal rights is simply not consistent with the theory
of animal welfare or other approaches that reject the rights view and, more
importantly, embrace animal exploitation. Animal rights means dramatic
social changes for humans and nonhumans alike."
(Gary Francione, Director, Rutgers Animal Rights Law Clinic,
The Animals Voice, Vol 4, #2, pp. 54-55)
"...the animal rights movement is not concerned about species extinction.
An elephant is no more or less important than a cow, just as a dolphin is
no more important than a tuna...."
(Barbara Biel, The Animals' Agenda, Vol 15 #3 (summer 1995 issue)
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.
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
-"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
"The life of an ant and the life of my child should be granted equal
consideration. " Michael Fox HSUS President
Inhumane Society Fox Publication
"I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby
is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
"Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler
chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses. " Ingrid Newkirk, founder,
president and former national director,
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, as quoted in Chip Brown,
"She's A Portrait of Zealotry in Plastic Shoes,"
Washington Post, November 13, 1983, p. B10.
"Torturing a human being is almost always wrong,
but it is not absolutely wrong." Peter Singer,
as quoted in Josephine Donovan "Animal Rights and Feminist Theory,"
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Winter 1990, p. 357.
"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
"If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from
pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course we're going to be, as a
movement, blowing things up and smashing windows." Bruce Friedrich,
Vegan Campaign Coordinator of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Animal Rights 2001 Convention,
"There is no hidden agenda. If anybody wonders about -- what's this
with all these reforms -- you can hear us clearly. Our goal is total animal
liberation."
- Ingrid Newkirk, "Animal Rights 2002" convention
Are you as terrified and angry as I am after reading this?
THIS is why we MUST oppose mandatory spay neuter, and Breed Specific Legislation.
These people are slick, well organized, and well funded. We are LOSING, people. Please get involved.
http://www.pet-law.com/
