Ingrid Newkirk
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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.
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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.
"Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals", Huffington Post, 17 July 2009.
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.
McGraw, Michael, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. "PETA and AIDS research", Letters to the Editor, CNSNews.com, May 15, 2006.
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.
New Yorker magazine, April 23 2003
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