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.
Interpretation
The quote advocates for a vegan lifestyle by highlighting the cruelty animals endure in the meat industry.
Ingrid Newkirk emphasizes the moral responsibility of individuals who oppose cruelty to extend their beliefs to their dietary choices. By examining the harsh realities faced by animals in slaughterhouses and factory farms, she argues that one cannot claim to be against cruelty while still consuming meat, thereby calling for a reassessment of ethical eating practices.
In practice
In a speech about animal rights, one might quote this to emphasize the need for dietary change.
[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their usefulness, or perceived usefulness, to us, but rather whether we have a right to use them at all.
It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.
Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.
There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.
Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.
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