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

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.

From Ingrid Newkirk

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

From Ingrid Newkirk

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

From Ingrid Newkirk

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

From Ingrid Newkirk

Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

From Ingrid Newkirk