Tom Regan on philosophy of animal rights

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“Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it.”
— PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk, in the September 1989 issue of Vogue, Sep 1989
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SIGN] “Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses.”
— Ingrid Newkirk, The Washington Post, Nov 1983
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[SIGN] “Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses.”
— Ingrid Newkirk, The Washington Post, Nov 1983
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“There’s 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 animals.”, — Ingrid Newkirk, Washingtonian magazine, Aug 1986
 
Regan writes: “Animals, it is true, lack many of the abilities humans possess. They can’t read, do higher mathematics, build a bookcase, or make baba ghanoush. Neither can many human beings, however, and yet we don’t say – and shouldn’t say – that they (these humans) therefore have less inherent value, less of a right to be treated with respect, than do others. It is the similarities between those human beings who most clearly, most uncontroversially have such value – the people reading this, for example – it is our similarities, not our differences, that matter most.”
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