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Ingrid Newkirk is quoted saying: “Even if animal tests produced a cure (for AIDS), we’d be against it (qtd. in Marquardt 177).

PETA’s own Ingrid Newkirk speaks out again this time in an article published in “Harper’s Magazine”. She makes clear the ultimate intentions of PETA by stating:

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation… as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship – enjoyment at a distance (qtd. in Carnell).

Here again we see the director of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, quoted in the magazine Animals as saying:

The bottom line is that people don’t have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats… If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek their own kind (qtd. in Bucciarelli).

PETA’s own director of research and investigations Mary Beth Sweetland.

I am an insulin-dependant diabetic. Twice a day I take synthetically manufactured insulin that still contains some animal products – and I have no qualms about it… I don’t see myself as a hypocrite. I need my life to fight for the rights of animals (qtd. in Marquardt).

Question to PeTA Outreach Coordinator Susan Rich: "If you were aboard a lifeboat with a baby and a dog, and the boat capsized, which would you rescue?"
Rich's answer: "I wouldn't know for sure...I might choose the human baby or I might choose the dog."
Steve Kane Show WIOD-AM Radio Miami, FL Feb, 23, 1989

DAN MATHEWS, Celebrity Recruiter for PeTA

"The fur industry will be the first domino to fall. Next in line are hunting, farming and biomedical research. So what if we put a few businesses under?"
-Dan Mathews, PeTA

INGRID NEWKIRK, FOUNDER, PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT
OF ANIMALS (PETA)

"The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship they should seek it with their own kind."

"In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether." (Newsday, Feb. 21, 1988)

"Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals."
(Vogue, September, 1989)

"I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down."
( National Animal Rights Convention '97, June 27, 1997)

"As the surplus of cats and dogs declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we return to a more symbiotic relationship--enjoyment at a distance."--Ingrid Newkirk

"Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses."
(Washington Post, 1983)

"Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth." (Reader's Digest, June, 1990)

Meat eating is "primitive, barbaric, and arrogant."
(City Paper, Feb. 1990)

"I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything."
(Washington Post, November 13, 1983)

"Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt...We are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line."
(USA Today, September 3, 1991)

"Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it."
(Vogue, September, 1989)

"If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog."
(Washington Post, Nov. 13, 1983)

"I know it's illegal [trespassing], but I don't think it's wrong."
(Montgomery County, MD, Journal Feb. 16, 1988)

"When we build an atrractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go."
(Reason, June 1990

"I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out." (Harper's Magazine, Aug. 1988)

"Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself."
(Washingtonian Magazine, August 1986)

"It (animal research) is immoral even if it's essential."
(Washington Post, May 30, 1989)

"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation."
(Washingtonian Magazine, August, 1986)

"When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings." ("To Market, To Market," Los Angeles Times Magazine, March 22, 1992, in which Newkirk condones law-breaking Animal Liberation Front actions and promotes her soon-to-be-published History of the ALF.)

"You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them....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."
("Where Would We Be Without Animals?", Chicago Daily Herald, March 1, 1990)

"If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways." - Ingrid Newkirk in The Washington Times August 29, 1999

ALEX PACHECO, CHAIRMAN, PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT
OF ANIMALS (PETA)

"Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause."
(Gazette Mail, Charleston, WV, January 15, 1989)

"We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child"
(New York Times, January 14, 1989)