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Alarming Quotes from the Animal Rights Movement
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"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation."
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Ingrid Newkirk, President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), "Just Like Us? Toward a Nation of Animal Rights" (symposium), Harper's, August 1988, p. 50.
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"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 wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV."
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Ingrid Newkirk, President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), The Chicago Daily Herald, March 1, 1990
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"In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether."
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Ingrid Newkirk, President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), Newsday, February 21, 1988
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"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.'"
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New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, "Should Dogs Be Kept As Pets? NO!" Good Dog! February 1991, p. 20.
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"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."
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Gary Francione and Tom Regan, "A Movement's Means Create Its Ends," The Animals' Agenda, January/February 1992, pp. 40-42.
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"Humane care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage."
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Dr. Michael W. Fox, Humane Society of the US, 1988 Newsweek interview
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“We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding ...One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.”
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Wayne Pacelle, Humane Society of the US, Animal People News, May 1993
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“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.”
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Elliot Katz, President “In Defense of Animals,” Spring 1997
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When asked if he envisioned a future without pets, “If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don’t want to see another dog or cat born.”
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Wayne Pacelle, Bloodties: Nature, Culture and the Hunt by Ted Kerasote, 1993, p. 266.
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