http://www.michaelspecter.com/ny/2003/2003_04_14_peta.html Good article on PETA and its savvy founder Ingrid Newkirk. (“I am 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.”) I can’t figure out PETA’s line on pets; PETA believes that animals are not ours to use “for entertainment” (among other things), which would seem to preclude pet ownership in itself, but their site has numerous factsheets on how one should behave toward “companion animals.” 12:01
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Entry Posted November 7, 2003
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http://www.jasonpye.com/blog (www.jasonpye.com):
… PETA president Ingrid E. Newkirk pleaded with the rebel leader "to leave animals out of this conflict," the letter said.This should come as no surprise. Ingrid Newkirk once sent a letter to Yasser Arafat protestthe use of a donkey in a suicide bombing. The stupid, it burns. However, you will never get PETA to own up to its dirty little secret. H/T: Below the Beltway …
For Your Entertainment (foryourentertainment.blogspot.com):
… got there, and I would just kill the animals myself. Because I couldn't stand to let them go through other workers abusing the animals. I must have killed thousands of them, sometimes dozens everyday." - Ingrid Newkirk, President of PETA as quotedin The New Yorker. …
News.com.au Fully Chic Blog (blogs.news.com.au):
… t going to get anywhere near the spring/summer 2008 shows without the animal rights lobby popping up, didn’t you? Whether it’s fur coats or bikinis shown on the runways, you can bank on seeing PETA’s self-professedpress sluts …
blog.myspace.com/mablesaurusrex (blog.myspace.com):
… Grimes. 4 Rick Weiss, "Bird Brains Get Some New Names, and New Respect," The Washington Post 1 Feb. 2005: A10. 5 Ananova, "Chickens 'Not Just 'Bird Brains,'" 2005. 6 Michael Specter, "The Extremist,"The New Yorker14 Apr. 2003. 7 Lesley Rogers, The Development of Brain and Behaviour in the Chicken, CABI Publishing: Oxfordshire, U.K., 1995: 217. 8> Specter. 9 Grimes. 10 Jennifer Viegas, "Study: Chickens Think About Future," …
Adventures in Ethics and Science (scienceblogs.com):
… for just a taste) about a recent PETA ad that many viewers find gratuitously sexist. To me, the ad and the reaction to it are most interesting because they raise a larger issue about how we promote our values and how we choose our allies. FromMichael Specter's articleon PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk in the April 14, 2003 issue of The New Yorker: Newkirk seems openly to court the anger even of people who share her views. "I know feminists hate the naked displays," she told me. "I lose members every time I do it. …
ScienceBlogs (www.scienceblogs.com):
… for just a taste) about a recent PETA ad that many viewers find gratuitously sexist. To me, the ad and the reaction to it are most interesting because they raise a larger issue about how we promote our values and how we choose our allies. FromMichael Specter's articleon PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk in the April 14, 2003 issue of The New Yorker: Newkirk seems openly to court the anger even of people who share her views. "I know feminists hate the naked displays," she told me. "I lose members every time I do it. …
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