{"id":177,"date":"2009-06-15T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T18:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2009-07-02T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T16:38:10","slug":"more-animal-rights-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/more-animal-rights-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"More Animal Rights quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I forgot a few quotes at the bottom of the previous article<\/a>, so here they are.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t have a hands-on fondness for animals\u2026To this day I don\u2019t feel bonded to any non-human animal. I like them and I pet them and I\u2019m kind to them, but there\u2019s no special bond between me and other animals.\u201d Wayne Pacelle, of the Humane Society of the United States, quoted in Bloodties: Nature, Culture and the Hunt by Ted Kerasote, 1993, p. 251.<\/p>\n

\u201cBreeders must be eliminated! As long as there is a surplus of companion animals in the concentration camps referred to as \u201cshelters\u201d, 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 \u2018Don\u2019t Breed or Buy, While Others DIE.\u2019\u201d \u201cBreeders! Let\u2019s get rid of them too!\u201d Campaign on Animal Defense League\u2019s website, September 2, 2003<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.\u201d Ingrid Newkirk, national Director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), Newsday, 2\/21\/88<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t use the word \u201cpet.\u201d I think it\u2019s speciesist language. I prefer \u201ccompanion animal.\u201d For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding. People could not create different breeds. There would be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in their homes, those animals would have to be refugees from the animal shelters and the streets. You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship \u2013 enjoyment at a distance.\u201d Ingrid Newkirk, national Director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), The Harper\u2019s Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p.223.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles\u2013from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave it.\u201d John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic Washington People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, (PeTA), 1982, p. 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them \u2026 One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild \u2026 they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV,\u201d Ingrid Newkirk, national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), Chicago Daily Herald, March 1, 1990.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.\u201d Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA\u2019s founder and president, New Yorker, April 23, 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is that people don\u2019t have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats \u2026 If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind,\u201d Ingrid Newkirk, founder, president and former national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), Animals, May\/June 1993<\/p>\n

\u201cSix million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses.\u201d Ingrid Newkirk, founder, president and former national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, as quoted in Chip Brown, \u201cShe\u2019s A Portrait of Zealotry in Plastic Shoes,\u201d Washington Post, November 13, 1983, p. B10.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human child because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.\u201d Alex Pacheco, Director, PETA, New York Times, January 14, 1989<\/p>\n

\u201cThe life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration.\u201d Michael W. Fox, Scientific Director and former Vice President, The Humane Society of the United States, The Inhumane Society, New York, 1990.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo those people who say, `My father is alive because of animal experimentation,\u2019 I say `Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.\u2019 Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade off.\u201d Bill Maher, PETA celebrity spokesman.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if animal tests produced a cure [for AIDS], \u2018we\u2019d be against it.\u201d Ingrid Newkirk, national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), as quoted in Fred Barnes, \u201cPolitics,\u201d Vogue, September 1989, p. 542.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as cock fighting and dog fighting.\u201d Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP Humane Society of the US (HSUS), formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals,(Bozeman Daily Chronicle, October 8,1991.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States \u2026 We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state. Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP Humane Society of the US (HSUS), formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals, Full Cry Magazine, October 1, 1990.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.\u201d Neal Barnard, Medical Advisor, PETA, from Bernard\u2019s book, Food For Life.<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably everything we do is a publicity stunt \u2026 we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We\u2019re here to hold the radical line.\u201d Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA\u2019s president and founder, USA Today, September 3, 1991.<\/p>\n

\u201cHumane care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.\u201d Dr. Michael W. Fox, Humane Society of the US, in 1988 Newsweek interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.\u201d Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP Humane Society of the US, formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals, at the Animal Rights 2002? Convention, July 1, 2002.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States Norm Phelps, Program Director, Fund for Animals: \u201cAnimal Rights 2002? convention, July 2, 2002<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not terrorists, but we are a threat. We are a threat both economically and philosophically. Our power is not in the right to vote but the power to stop production. We will break the law and destroy property until we win.\u201d Dr. Steven Best, speaking at International Animal Rights Gathering 2005. The Telegram (UK) July 17, 2005 [On the contrary. Some animal rights groups have been deemed domestic terrorist organizations by the FBI.]<\/p>\n

\u201cIf someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.\u201d Jerry Vlasak, spokesman for Animal Defense League, April 1, 2004.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI \/ Homeland Security \/ a local detective.\u201d Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA\u2019s founder and president, letter to activists posted on Yahoo, March 17, 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are about 2,000 people prepared at any one time to take action for us \u2026 The children [of targeted scientists and executives] are enjoying a lifestyle built on the blood and abuse of innocent animals. Why should they be allowed to close the door on that and sit down and watch TV and enjoy themselves when animals are suffering and dying because of the actions of the family breadwinner? They are a justifiable target for protest.\u201d Robin Webb, ALF leader, Sunday Herald (Scotland) Sept. 19, 2004.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt won\u2019t ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It\u2019s going to happen sooner or later. The Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front \u2014 sooner or later there\u2019s going to be someone getting hurt. And we have to accept that fact. It\u2019s going to happen. It\u2019s not going to hurt our movement. Our movement will go on. And it\u2019s important that we not let the bully pulpit of the FBI and the other oppression agencies stop us from what we\u2019re doing. They are the violent ones. They are the terrorists \u2026 we have to keep doing what we\u2019re doing.\u201d Jerry Vlasak, PCRM spokesman and Director of ADL, speaking at the Animal Rights 2004 convention (July 8-11).<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019d have to kill \u2014 assassinate \u2014 too many \u2026 I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives.\u201d Jerry Vlasak, Animal Rights 2003 Convention, June, 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cHit them in their personal lives, visit their homes. Actively target military establishments within the United States\u2026 strike hard and fast and retreat in anonymity. Select another location, strike again hard and fast and quickly retreat in anonymity \u2026 Do not get caught. DO NOT GET CAUGHT. Do not get sent to jail. Stay alert, keep active, and keep fighting.\u201d Craig Rosenbraugh, radical animal rights spokesperson for terrorism and a recipient of PeTA funds, in Open letter to activists, published on the Independent Media Center website, March 17, 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cProperty destruction is a legitimate political tool called economic sabotage, and it\u2019s meant to attack businesses and corporations.\u201d David Barbarash, Spokesperson for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), NPR radio show \u201cThe Connection\u201d January 7, 2002.<\/p>\n

\u201cDamaging the enemy financially is fair game.\u201d Alex Pacheco, animal rights radical, PeTA co-founder and one of its original 3 board members, Washington City Paper, December 18, 1987.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have found that civil disobedience and direct action has been powerful in generating massive attention in our communities \u2026 and has been very effective in traumatizing our targets.\u201d JP Goodwin, Committee to Abolish the Fur Trade, National Animal Rights Convention \u201897, June 27, 1997, now employed by the Humane Society of the United States<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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