Top 51 Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk

About Ingrid Newkirk

These are some quotes by British author Ingrid Newkirk Activist, who was born on June 11, 1949.

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.

Ingrid Newkirk

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

Ingrid Newkirk

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

Ingrid Newkirk

Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

Ingrid Newkirk

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

Ingrid Newkirk

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

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

Ingrid Newkirk

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

Ingrid Newkirk

Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

Ingrid Newkirk

I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

Ingrid Newkirk

Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

Ingrid Newkirk

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