Tess Holliday Quotes

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.

I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA.

I never wear fur, and I am a spokesperson for PETA.

When I first started playing metal, lyrically, I sort of related a little bit more to the punk and hardcore scenes, where there was a lot more veganism and straight-edge people and people taking a stance for causes that they believe in.

I just don't like killing creatures.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

I've become an animal rights activist.

The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) carries out direct action against animal abuse in the form of rescuing animals and causing financial loss to animal exploiters, usually through the damage and destruction of property.

Prevent the torture and murder of our animal brothers and sisters

There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.

I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals.

Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!

I've been involved in animal issues for quite a while, going back 24 years. I started reading up on factory farming and slaughterhouses and animal cruelty, and it didn't make sense for me to be part of it.

All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.

I'm an animal-rights person, actually. Big time.

I appreciate people trying to stand up for animals.

The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.

I support the rights of non-humans wholeheartedly with my voice, my money, my presence, my writing and any other way I can.

I don't eat or wear animals, but I never tell people not to - that's just my view.

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I became involved in the movement. I just came to be persuaded that animals should be treated as independent sentient beings, not as means to human ends.