I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try… - Ingrid Newkirk

There is no hidden agenda. If anybody wonders about — what’s this with all these reforms — you can hear us clearly. Our goal is total animal liberation.

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I’d be against it on moral grounds.

Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it’s probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.