Ingrid Newkirk

British-American animal rights advocate, author & activist · United Kingdom · On the map · Activists · Born 1949 · age 77

Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk is a British and American animal rights activist, author and the co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world's largest animal rights organization.

Ingrid Newkirk is read about 115 times a day, in 21 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 108 days, one point a day.

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A life in dates

2014Ahimsa AwardAward2009“Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt.”In their words17 July 2009Huffington PostRead the whole statement

2005“I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) … I plan to have handbags made from my skin … and an umbrella stand made from my seat.”In their wordsDuring the hoof and mouth disease outbreak in EuropeRead the whole statement

2003“We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected.”In their wordsMarch 2003Veg Family, March, 2003Read the whole statement

“We are complete press sluts.”In their wordsThe New Yorker, 2003 April 14.Read the whole statement

“I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.”In their words"Mother Nature", The Observer 2003 June 22Read the whole statement

2002“There is no hidden agenda. If anybody wonders about - what’s this with all these reforms - you can hear us clearly. Our goal is total animal liberation.”In their words“Animal Rights 2002” convention, 2002 June 30Read the whole statement

1949Born11 June 1949

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Alex Pacheco Co-founded People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

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Alex Pacheco

One of the Silver Spring monkeys in a restraint chair

Newkirk and Matthew Galkin, who directed I Am an Animal, the story of Newkirk's life[23]

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Ingrid Newkirk

4 statements, newest first

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I’d be against it on moral grounds.
15 May 2006 · Letters to the Editor, CNSNews.com, Own words
I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
23 April 2003 · New Yorker magazine, Own words
That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis didn't eat the objects of their derision.
2003 · "Mother Nature", The Observer 2003 June 22, Own words