ANIMAL RIGHTS WATCH

‘Too far? I don’t think we’ve gone far enough!’: Ingrid Newkirk on her bloody fight for animal rights

Forty-five years into PETA’s existence, Ingrid Newkirk can claim to have won many battles. Animal testing is marginally down, with multinational companies having to at least pay lip service to ideas around animal cruelty and environmentalism. And more than 25 million people worldwide have at least dipped a toe into veganism. PETA has certainly played some part in this with its activism. If they didn’t invent direct action, they normalized it. Ingrid Newkirk was 54 when she thought she was going to die in a plane crash. It was late summer and the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment […]

Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists

The undercover officer claimed he had infiltrated animal rights groups and concocted a plot in which animal rights activists purportedly sought to obtain a gun to inflict a revenge attack on a political opponent, but his managers later came to doubt whether it was genuine. The animal rights activist who was accused of a central role in the alleged conspiracy said it was a fabrication that could have resulted in him being unjustly jailed for years… Managers of an undercover police officer believed he had concocted a plot in which animal rights activists purportedly sought to obtain a gun to […]

VEGAN LOGIC: It would be immoral to run a factory farm, so it’s immoral to buy from one

If it’s wrong to do something, then it’s wrong to pay other people to do it. Because it’s wrong to kill, it’s wrong to hire someone else to kill. Because it’s wrong to rob a bank, it’s wrong to hire someone else to rob a bank. So if it’s wrong to treat animals badly, it’s wrong to pay others to treat animals badly. But that is what you do every time you purchase meat from a typical source. You pay for the product of months of torment and mutilation in a factory farm. Imagine that you found out that your […]