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" It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat. "
Ingrid Newkirk
Face
Down
Time
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" Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home? "
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" Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan. "
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" It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive. "
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" There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms. "
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Two
Who
" I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business. "
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" It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes. "
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" Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting. "
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" One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat. "
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Humane
Meat
Hates
" It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian. "
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Better
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" I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope. "
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" By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins. "
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Health
Help
" Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds. "
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Kind
Racing
Activity
" Never doubt that one person can make a difference. "
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Doubt
Person
Make A Difference
" If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough. "
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Enough
You
Like
" Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose. "
Ingrid Newkirk
Fact
Human
Most
" Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test. "
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Intelligence
Test
Best
" All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window? "
Ingrid Newkirk
Suffering
Flying
Good
" I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog. "
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Much
Myself
Travel
" At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave. "
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Just
Animals
Say
" 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. "
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" Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms. "
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People
Meat
" Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation. "
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Think
Important
Animal
" Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale. "
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Global
Time
Resources
" Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent. "
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Relationships
Gentle
" Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable. "
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Someone
Fire
" Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. "
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Creative
Kind
Face
" 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. "
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Today
Clothing
Human
" 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? "
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Cow
" I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat. "
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Animals
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" Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. "
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