Quotes from ARs
I'm going to start listing quotes that I find from Animal Rights activists and also mission statements from AR groups. Hope you find this enlightening!
"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
trade off."
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Bill Maher, PETA celebrity spokesman
"Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are 'acceptable
crimes' when used for the animal cause."
-Alex Pacheco, Director, PETA
"I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals
out or burn them down."
-Ingrid Newkirk, President, PETA, National Animal Rights
Convention '97, June 27, 1997
"Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals.
Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates."
Jerry Vlasak, Animal Defense League, Internet post to AR Views
list, June 21, 1996
"If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse
suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she
thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse
is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong."
-Ingrid Newkirk, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
"They are not our property. We are not their owners,"
according to the Animal Rights Movement.
Veterinarian Elliot Katz, President of In Defense of Animals, says,
"Now is the time to get rid of the concept of pet ownership!"
"For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding as the
surplus of cats and dogs declined, eventually companion animals would
be phased out. We would no longer allow pet shops." Ingrid Newkirk in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1988
"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation." Ingrid Newkirk in Washingtonian Magazine, Aug. 1986
