Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. For International Animal Rights Day, we are joined by Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and President of PETA, the world’s largest animal rights organization. Highlights of our conversation include:

• The formative experiences that inspired Ingrid to co-found PETA and dedicate her life to animal liberation;

• PETA’s groundbreaking campaigns that include both bold, confrontational activism as well as behind-the-scenes deliberation and negotiation;

• Major victories of PETA in transforming industries like food, fashion, experimentation, and entertainment to reduce animal suffering and the challenges that remain;

• Ingrid’s thoughts on global overpopulation, pronatalism, effective altruism, and the power that all of us have to help end animal suffering.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Ingrid Newkirk

• Website: PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)

• Book: Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion by Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone

• Documentary: I Am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA

• Book: The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams

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