PETA President to Get a Taste of Her Own Medicine

Consumer Group Protests Ingrid Newkirk's Washington Book-Signing, Blames PETA for Bankrolling "Unkind" Arsonists

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Dressed as eco-terrorists, carrying a comically large gasoline can and matches, and holding a banner depicting an arson fire under the words "PETA's Kind Choice," representatives from the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) will gather to protest the Washington book- signing appearance of Ingrid Newkirk. Newkirk, the president and co-founder of the radical group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is promoting a new animal-rights book misleadingly titled "Making Kind Choices." Date: Monday, January 24 Time: 6:00 pm Place: Borders Bookstore 1801 K Street, NW

A CCF spokesperson will be on-hand with leaflets detailing PETA's shameful history and tactics, and a list of Ingrid Newkirk's most controversial quotables. Meanwhile, other CCF advocates will appear dressed in the all-black garb of the PETA-funded Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a group of arsonists and violent saboteurs describes by the FBI as a "domestic terror organization." In 2001 PETA made a large cash contribution to the ELF, the only such donation ever publicly acknowledged.

"Ingrid Newkirk would love to rehabilitate her group's image by promoting tofu with a smile on her face," said CCF Director of Research David Martosko. "But PETA's own history shows that its idea of 'kindness' includes arson and other violent crimes."

In a 2002 animal-rights convention speech, Newkirk described PETA's overall goal as "total animal liberation." At the same event one year earlier, PETA vegetarian campaign director Bruce Friedrich endorsed "blowing stuff up and smashing windows" as "a great way to bring about animal liberation." Friedrich added that "it would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow ... Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it."

PETA's own literature includes a leaflet describing the terrorist Animal Liberation Front (ALF) as "An Army of the Kind." The ALF has been responsible for over $100 million in arson damage, including a Michigan State University research laboratory fire in which Newkirk herself was implicated by a federal prosecutor.

"Americans shouldn't be fooled into thinking that PETA is warm and fuzzy," added Martosko. "It's a band of radicals intent on abolishing meat, milk, cheese, circuses, zoos, wool, leather, hunting, fishing, and the very medical research that will bring us a cure for AIDS. Even if you agree with this lunacy, PETA's so-called 'kind' choices shouldn't include bankrolling arsonists."

The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit coalition supported by restaurants, food companies, and consumers, working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices.

Ingrid's a real piece of work:

Newkirk on violence
"[People] need to understand that if they support the torture and misuse of other animals they will be made to pay. The animals are defenseless. They can't fight back. But we can. And, no matter what it takes, we always will."

Newkirk on former employees calling PETA "the cult of Newkirk"
"If you put the cult stuff in [your article] nobody will take what we do seriously."

Newkirk on the press
"We are complete press sluts."

Newkirk on being a press slut
"That Reuters reporter was so thrilled when I told him my position on hoof-and-mouth disease. Don't you need something like that [i.e., an outrageous quote for your article] too?"

Newkirk on what she strives to be
"The biggest nag on earth."

Newkirk's last will and testament
"That the meat of my body, or a portion thereof, be used for a human barbeque...my skin, or a portion thereof, be removed and made into leather products...my feet be removed and umbrella strands or other ornamentation be made from them...my eyes be removed, mounted and delivered to the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency..."

Newkirk on Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders
"Why not find out when his birthday is, call the newspapers, and go dance on his grave?"

Newkirk on drooling
"People drool when they look at [Pamela Anderson, who poses for PETA ads]. Why wouldn't we use that? We need all the drooling we can get."

Newkirk on her divine mandate
"I am just trying to make the best case for animals. That is clearly what I was put on this earth to do. Even after I am gone, I will try to continue."

Newkirk on having children
"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."

A few of the author's observations are also worth recounting.

On PETA's press strategy
"PETA's publicity formula -- eighty percent outrage, ten percent each of celebrity and truth."

On Newkirk's view of Seeing Eye dogs
"She regards the use of Seeing Eye dogs as an abdication of human responsibility and, because they live as 'servants' and are denied the companionship of other dogs, she is wholly opposed to their use."

On Newkirk dreaming
"Ingrid Newkirk told me once, with genuine conviction, that McDonald's -- which feeds hamburgers and chicken nuggets to twenty million people a day in the United State alone -- would stop serving meat in her lifetime."

On attacking Seinfeld's Jason Alexander for appearing in KFC commercials
"Then PETA's Dan Matthews spoke up again. 'Do you know that fat little guy from Seinfeld? He has become the main pitchman for KFC, Jason Alexander. And beginning in May he is going to star in the West Coast production of 'The Producers.' It's made for us. We can be slamming him as the play opens. If we do this properly, he will wish he never saw a chicken."

On mad cow disease
"Next on the agenda: the case of Charlton Heston. Heston has fallen ill with Alzheimer's, a disease with symptoms that can resemble those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD, the human form of mad-cow disease. Deer have a chronic wasting syndrome similar to that found in cattle, and, tenuous though it is, the link presents PETA with an opportunity to, as Newkirk put it, 'toy with the idea that both Alzheimer's and CJD are related to meat consumption.'"

On PETA supporting violence
"Its leaders wholeheartedly defend and encourage guerilla groups like the Animal Liberation Front. In fact, Bruce Friedrich, one of PETA's most prominent leaders, says in a speech readily available on the Internet [CCF caught and recorded Friedrich saying this at a 2001 convention] 'I think it would be a great thing if, you know, all these fast food outlets and these slaughterhouses and these laboratories and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow.'"

On PETA's success
"PETA is by far the most successful radical organization in America, raising more than fifteen million dollars a year, most of it in small contributions from its seven hundred and fifty thousand members and supporters. Newkirk believes in spending as much of that as she can."

On Newkirk's extremism
"She told me, in the most unequivocal terms, that the world would be an infinitely better place without humans in it at all."

I'm thrilled to see that the public backlash against PETA is continuing to gain altitude. Their "party" should have been over years ago. I'll be happy the day their financial support dries up and blows away. Permanently.
Years ago, I was privileged to work on the annual fund raising soiree for the City of Hope in Duarte, California. For those who may not know, the City of Hope is one of the world's finest cancer research and care hospitals. Patients receive top flight care there at absolutely no charge. The hospital budget is funded almost exclusively by private donations. Need I say more?
While visiting there, I met Dr. and Dr. Rappaport (husband and wife), who were instrumental in the development of bone marrow transplants -- a technique that has since saved millions of human lives. I met those two fine doctors moments before I was given a mini-tour of the research laboratory where they'd done their work. While in the lab I remember seeing a number of rats and mice in cages. As an animal lover, I had a moment or two of regret about how their little lives might end, but it didn't begin to compare with the feelings I'd experienced an hour or two before when I'd visited with two women suffering with end stage cancers.
And so we know, and knew then, that PETA ranks animal life far above that of human beings. I certainly do. Though they were unsuccessful, it was PETA that attempted to obstruct and interrupt our fund raising efforts that year.
Prior to that, someone had asked if I thought it would be beneficial to offer PETA members tours of the hospital. I remember answering something like, "No, they're too far gone to be helped." And so they are.

The Center for Consumer Freedom website has this press release:

PETA President To Get a Taste of Her Own Medicine

Consumer Group Protests Ingrid Newkirk's Book-Signing, Blames PETA For Bankrolling “Unkind” Arsonist

New York City - Dressed as eco-terrorists, carrying comically large gasoline cans and matches, and holding a banner depicting an arson fire under the words "PETA's Kind Choice," representatives from the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) will gather to protest the Manhattan book-signing appearance of Ingrid Newkirk. Newkirk, the president and co-founder of the radical group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is promoting a new animal-rights book misleadingly titled "Making Kind Choices."

Date: Wednesday, January 19

Time: 6:00 pm

Place: Barnes & Noble Chelsea (New York City)
675 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Ave.) at 21st Street

A CCF spokesperson will be on-hand with leaflets detailing PETA's shameful history and tactics, and a list of Ingrid Newkirk's most controversial quotables. Meanwhile, other CCF advocates will appear dressed in the all-black garb of the PETA-funded Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a group of arsonists and violent saboteurs describes by the FBI as a "domestic terror organization." In 2001 PETA made a large cash contribution to the ELF, the only such donation ever publicly acknowledged.
"Ingrid Newkirk would love to rehabilitate her group's image by promoting tofu with a smile on her face," said CCF Director of Research David Martosko. "But PETA's own history shows that its idea of 'kindness' includes arson and other violent crimes."
In a 2002 animal-rights convention speech, Newkirk described PETA's overall goal as "total animal liberation." At the same event one year earlier, PETA vegetarian campaign director Bruce Friedrich endorsed "blowing stuff up and smashing windows" as "a great way to bring about animal liberation." Friedrich added that "it would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow … Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it."
PETA's own literature includes a leaflet describing the terrorist Animal Liberation Front (ALF) as "An Army of the Kind." The ALF has been responsible for over $100 million in arson damage, including a Michigan State University research laboratory fire in which Newkirk herself was implicated by a federal prosecutor.
"Americans shouldn't be fooled into thinking that PETA is warm and fuzzy," added Martosko. "It's a band of radicals intent on abolishing meat, milk, cheese, circuses, zoos, wool, leather, hunting, fishing, and the very medical research that will bring us a cure for AIDS. Even if you agree with this lunacy, PETA's so-called 'kind' choices shouldn't include bankrolling arsonists."
The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit coalition supported by restaurants, food companies, and consumers, working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices.

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Date:	Wednesday, January 19
Time:	6:00 pm
Place:	Barnes & Noble Chelsea (New York City) 675 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Ave.) at 21st Street