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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 ..."
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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 Vogue magazine in 1989 that even if it resulted in a cure for AIDS, PETA would oppose it.
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 and animal
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?
** Ingrid Newkirk, animal rights activist
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.
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 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 Asia-Pacific was founded by Ingrid Newkirk in Hong Kong in 2005 to support animal rights programs and campaigns in Asia.
Newkirk on clashes with other animal rights organizations and her feelings about the Animal Liberation Front.
Robert Garner of the University of Leicester writes that Newkirk and Pacheco are the leading exporters of animal rights to the more moderate groups in the United States — both members of an animal rights elite that he argues has shaken up the animal rights movement, setting up new groups and radicalizing old ones.
According to PETA's Ingrid Newkirk in an interview with Wikinews, there are two issues in animal welfare and animal rights.
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.
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.
She and her husband had moved to Poolesville, Maryland, in 1970, where was studying to become a stockbroker, when a neighbour abandoned some kittens, and Newkirk decided to take them to an animal shelter.
Kathy Snow Guillermo writes that Newkirk disinfected kennels by day, and by night studied animal care, animal behavior, and animal-cruelty investigations.
Newkirk and rights
Until she was 22, Newkirk had given no thought to animals rights or even vegetarianism.
It was Pacheco who introduced Newkirk to the concept of animal rights.
* Ingrid Newkirk ( born 1949 ), British-American animal rights activist
Newkirk and conference
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.
Newkirk and 2002
A mountain lion attack on a person seven miles east of Newkirk was reported in 2002
Newkirk and PETA's
" PETA's Ingrid Newkirk ", Salon, April 30, 2001.
Along with Newkirk, Dan Matthews ( above ) is one of PETA's key players.
Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's president, said the footage showed the primates living in " miserable conditions.
Newkirk and very
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.
Newkirk was older, practical, very organized, whereas Pacheco spent his time in white painter's overalls eating vegetarian hot dogs straight from the can.
Newkirk and from
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.
The wood buildings that burned were mostly replaced with stone buildings from the distinctive yellow limestone quarried four miles east of Newkirk.
Even though it wasn't filmed in Newkirk, but in Guthrie, Oklahoma, the directors took the name from this town.
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.
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.
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.
During the 1995 trial of Rod Coronado, in connection with an arson attack at Michigan State University ( MSU ), U. S. Attorney Michael Dettmer alleged that Newkirk had arranged, in advance of the attack, to have Coronado send her stolen documents from the university and a videotape of the action.
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.
* Newkirk Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
Archaeologists have located a Wichita village at the Deer Creek Site dating from the 1750s on the Arkansas River east of Newkirk, Oklahoma.
* The Essential Don Murray: Lessons from America's Greatest Writing Teacher ( Thomas Newkirk and Lisa C Miller, editors.
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.
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