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Ingrid Newkirk née le 11 juin 1949 est une militante britannique pour les droits des animaux, présidente de People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, communément appelé PETA, la plus grande organisation mondiale pour les droits des animaux.

Newkirk est engagée dans la protection des animaux depuis 1972. Elle fonde PETA en mars 1980 avec Alex Pacheco. L’organisation attire l’attention en 1981, alors que Pacheco et Newkirk mettent en place un stratagème pour photographier 17 macaques dans un laboratoire de recherche de Silver Spring dans le Maryland, suivi d’un raid policier et de la création d’un amendement en 1985 à l’Animal Welfare Act 1966 . Newkirk a depuis mené de nombreuses campagnes pour l’interdiction de l’utilisation d’animaux dans les crash tests, pour mettre un terme à l’utilisation des animaux dans les tests sur les animaux pour les cosmétiques et pour élever les normes du bien-être animal dans l’industrie de la viande,. Wikipedia  

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Ingrid Newkirk: Citations en anglais

“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.”

"Mother Nature", The Observer 2003 June 22 http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,982402,00.html
2003

“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" http://www.cnsnews.com/letterstotheeditor/letters_archive/2006/letters20060515.asp, Letters to the Editor, CNSNews.com, May 15, 2006.
On animal research and activism against it

“If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.”

Washington Post, 1983 November 13.
On animal research and activism against it

“Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren’t all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I’d light a match.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999 November 12.
After The Justice Department mailed 87 razor blade–laced threats to medical researchers studying news drugs on primates.
On animal research and activism against it

“Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.”

US News & World Report, 2002 April 8.
On animal research and activism against it

“I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.”

"National Animal Rights Convention", 1997 June 27.
On animal research and activism against it

“We are complete press sluts.”

The New Yorker, 2003 April 14.
2003

“I don’t use the word 'pet.' I think it’s speciesist language. I prefer 'companion animal.”

For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding. People could not create different breeds. There would be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in their homes, those animals would have to be refugees from the animal shelters and the streets. You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship — enjoyment at a distance.
The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p. 223.
1980s