Louis Theroux Quotes

I want to get a wolf and an eagle.

Whether exotic wild animals have escaped or the owners have let them go, the problem is still there…. The damage has already been done.

Just because you have an exotic animal as a pet does not make you a danger or irresponsible.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

I'm very passionate about animals.

I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.

I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.

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.

Our reputation as a nation of animal lovers means we can make a strong case for dogs as pets rather than as food.

There is nothing wrong with professional pet owners and private breeders of exotic animals. And I would be the first to fight to take away an animal from an irresponsible owner.

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

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

I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

We should all love animals.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

I'm very much into animal welfare.

All zoos are both beguiling and repellent.