Newkirk is a strong supporter of direct action that removes animals from laboratories and other facilities — she told The Los Angeles Times in 1992 that when she hears of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, her heart sings.

Newkirk told Vogue magazine in 1989 that even if it resulted in a cure for AIDS, PETA would oppose it.

Newkirk told an animal rights conference in 2002 that PETA's goal remains animal liberation: " Reforms move a society very importantly from A to B, from B to C, from C to D. It's very hard to take a nation or a world that is built on seeing animals as nothing more than hamburgers, handbags, cheap burglar alarms, tools for research, and move them from A to Z ..."

Richard Dawson has stated in an interview that he had initially used a Liverpool accent for the Newkirk character, but had been told by Mike Dann ( the then-president of CBS ) to switch it to a Cockney accent, as Dann felt that the Liverpool accent was not accessible to the American TV audience.

" PETA's Ingrid Newkirk ", Salon, April 30, 2001.

American writer Don Liddick writes that PETA gave $ 1, 500 to the Earth Liberation Front in 2001 — Newkirk said the donation was a mistake, and that the money had been intended for public education about destruction of habitat, but Liddick writes that it went to the legal defense of Craig Rosebraugh, an ELF spokesman.

Commenting on Singer's article " Heavy Petting ," in which he argues that zoosexual activity need not be abusive, and that relationships could form which were mutually enjoyed, Ingrid Newkirk, president of the animal rights group PETA, argued that, " If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer?

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) ( stylized PeTA ) is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president.

Newkirk and Pacheco are seen as the leading exporters of animal rights to the more traditional animal protection groups in the United States, but sections of the movement nevertheless say PETA is not radical enough — law professor Gary Francione calls them the new welfarists, arguing that their work with industries to achieve reform makes them an animal welfare, not an animal rights, group.

PETA responded that it has no involvement in ALF or ELF actions and does not support violence, though Newkirk has elsewhere made clear that she supports the removal of animals from laboratories and other facilities, including as a result of illegal direct action.

Every week, Newkirk holds what The New Yorker calls a war council, with two dozen of her top strategists gathered round a square table in the PETA conference room, no suggestion considered too outrageous.

PETA Asia-Pacific was founded by Ingrid Newkirk in Hong Kong in 2005 to support animal rights programs and campaigns in Asia.

He commented on the 26th, “ When someone actually coaches or conducts criminal behaviour to impose a political agenda on each and every other citizen of Canada, that does seem to me to meet the test of a terrorist organization .” Byrne continued to say, “ I am calling on the Government of Canada to actually investigate whether or not this organization, PETA, is acting as a terrorist organization under the test that exists under Canadian law .” In response to his interpretation of Canadian law, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said Byrne's reaction was " a silly, chest-beating exercise.

Ingrid Newkirk ( born June 11, 1949 ) is an English-born British American animal rights activist and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, also known as PETA, which is the world's largest animal rights organization.

Newkirk founded PETA in March 1980 with fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco.

Although PETA takes a gradualist approach to improving animal welfare, Newkirk remains committed to ending animal use, and the idea that, as PETA's slogan says, " animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.

The case of the Silver Spring monkeys, an animal-research controversy that lasted ten years, transformed PETA from just Newkirk, Pacheco, and a small group of friends into an international movement.

The controversy led to an amendment to the 1985 Animal Welfare Act, became the first animal-rights case to be heard before the United States Supreme Court, and established PETA as an internationally known animal-rights group, with Newkirk as its outspoken president.

Debra Saunders, a critic of Newkirk, argues that " PETA assails other parties for killing animals for food or research.

Newkirk and PETA both oppose animal testing out of principle as well as on practical grounds.

The proceedings, which lasted years, generated a large amount of publicity for PETA, transforming it from what Ingrid Newkirk called " five people in a basement " into a national movement.

* Ingrid Newkirk, American animal activist, co-founder and president of PETA

Having collected the evidence, Newkirk and Pacheco alerted the police, who raided the lab, removed the monkeys, and charged Taub with 113 counts of animal cruelty and six counts of failing to provide adequate veterinary care.

He introduced Newkirk to Peter Singer's influential book, Animal Liberation ( 1975 ), and in March 1980 she persuaded him to join her in forming People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, at that point just five people in a basement, as Newkirk described it.

Royal Air Force Corporal Peter Newkirk ( British-American actor Richard Dawson ) is the group's conman, magician, pick-pocket, card sharp, forger, bookie, tailor, lock picker, safe cracker and impersonator of German officers ( and on one occasion, Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister during the war ); on numerous occasions Newkirk also impersonates women to fool the Germans and help the underground movement.

Thomas Newkirk and Melissa Robertson of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) summarize the development of U. S. insider trading laws.

Paul's latest project is Baby Elephant, a collaboration with Parliament and Talking Heads keyboardist Bernie Worrell, and longtime Paul associate Don Newkirk.

" A few years later, Newkirk clarified in a letter to the Canada Free Press that she was strongly opposed to any exploitation of, and all sexual activity with, animals.

During a visit with her sister Lisa Anne in Toronto, the summer after eleventh grade, Furtado met Tallis Newkirk, member of the hip hop group Plains of Fascination.

The following year, she formed Nelstar, a trip hop duo with Newkirk.

Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first caught the public's attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Newkirk was born in England in 1949 and raised in Hertfordshire, and later New Delhi, India, where her father — a navigational engineer — was stationed.

Newkirk, now an atheist, was educated in a convent, the only British girl there.

In 1980, she divorced Steve Newkirk, whom she had married when she was 19, and the same year met Alex Pacheco, a political major at George Washington University.

He volunteered at the shelter where she worked, and they fell in love and began living together, though as Kathy Snow Guillermo writes they were very different — Newkirk was older and more practical, whereas Pacheco could barely look after himself.

Along with Newkirk, Dan Matthews ( above ) is one of PETA's key players.

Newkirk rejects the criticism, and has said of the group that it is here to hold the radical line.

Thirty-two percent of its staff earned under $ 30, 000, 24 percent over $ 40, 000, and Newkirk just under $ 37, 000.

Pacheco left the group in 1999 and since then, two key staff members next to Newkirk have been Tracy Reiman, Executive Vice President, and Dan Mathews, Senior Vice-President of campaigns.

His powers now began to fail, and his habit of working at night and other excesses told upon his constitution ; in the Salon of 1812 he exhibited only a " Tête de Vierge "; in 1819 " Pygmalion et Galatée " showed a still further decline of strength ; and in 1824, the year in which he produced his portraits of Cathelineau and Bonchamps, Girodet died on December 9 in Paris.

Salon Kitty became even more popular when selected guests in the military and diplomatic corps were told the " secret codeword " and monitors made thousands of records.

An anonymous State Department source told a Salon. com journalist that the funds McCarry allegedly used in Haiti came from the IRI.

Joan Walsh, news editor of Salon. com, wrote: " CNN hit rock bottom on Wednesday morning, when anchor Kyra Phillips interviewed Ali's doctor in Kuwait, Dr Imad al-Najada explained that, although Ali told reporters he was grateful for his treatment, he also hopes no other ' children in the war will suffer like what he suffered '.

" I'll never tell you what that song is about ," she told Salon in 2006.