“Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy v...” — Ingrid Newkirk Quote

Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

I haven't eaten junk food since I was 11, but I'm not teetotal: I have a drink maybe once a month.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

I am the kind to sit in front of the telly for hours. In fact, my parents and I are addicted to food shows. We can watch them endlessly. People who have seen us like, this call us a crazy family.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries - the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.