Newkirk told Salon in 2001 that PETA works toward the ideal, but tries in the meantime to provide carrot-and-stick incentives .< ref > Brandt, Peter.

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 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.

Newkirk Herald Journal editor Robert W. Lobsinger solicited a number of medical experts ' opinions on the program in 1989.

In fact, by the fifth season episode " Gowns by Yvette ," it is suggested that LeBeau cannot even sew a stitch, though he claims creative responsibility for the dress Newkirk eventually sews ; but later, he once again began to sew and mend the clothing alongside Newkirk.

Newkirk is called " the Englander " by Schultz and sometimes even Klink in some of the episodes.

Until she was 22, Newkirk had given no thought to animals rights or even vegetarianism.

He liked the school's history of producing major league talent and liked the school's hard-nosed mentality even more, especially after getting a recommendation from J. J. Newkirk, who played for Vargas's father, Joe, at Victor Valley High School.

Newkirk has replied to the criticism that no one is being exploited, the women taking part are volunteers, and if sexual attraction advances the cause of animals, she is unapologetic.

Newkirk lay crouched on the back seat of a car outside, hidden under a large cardboard box with holes for her eyes, using a walkie-talkie from a toy store to alert Pacheco if anyone else entered the building.

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.

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.

They regularly engage in pie-throwing — in January 2010, Canadian MP Gerry Byrne compared them to terrorists for throwing a tofu cream pie at Canada's fishery minister Gail Shea in protest at the seal hunt, a comment Newkirk called a silly chest-beating exercise.

Newkirk was criticized in 2003 for sending a letter to PLO leader Yasser Arafat asking him to keep animals out of the conflict, after a donkey was blown up during an attack in Jerusalem.

Newkirk is outspoken in her support of direct action, writing that no movement for social change has ever succeeded without what she calls the militarism component: " Thinkers may prepare revolutions ," she wrote of the ALF in 2004, " but bandits must carry them out.

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.

Newkirk was also teamed with Carter and his irritation at Carter's bumbling antics and lack of common sense was often used for comedic effect.

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 has worked for the animal protection movement since 1972.

Since then, Newkirk has led campaigns to stop the use of animals in crash tests, has convinced companies to stop testing cosmetics on animals and to press for higher welfare standards from the meat industry, and has organized undercover investigations that have led to government sanctions against companies, universities, and entertainers who use animals.

In her will, for example, she has asked that her skin be turned into wallets, her feet into umbrella stands, and her flesh into " Newkirk Nuggets ," then grilled on a barbecue.

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.

" Newkirk has also been criticized for her support of actions carried out in the name of the Animal Liberation Front.

Newkirk attended a convent boarding school in the Himalayas for well-to-do Indian nationals and non-natives.

Newkirk helped her mother out in the leper colony — packing pills and rolling bandages, stuffing toys for orphans, and feeding strays — and says that this informed her view that anyone in need, including animals, was worthy of concern, along with her mother's advice that it doesn ’ t matter who suffers, but how.

Newkirk has been criticized for publicizing actions carried out in the name of the Animal Liberation Front ( ALF ).

Newkirk has been accused of employing a double standard for her organization's practice of euthanizing animals for which it has neither the space nor resources to shelter.

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?

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.

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

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