*This is another installment in my series of rants about people who piss me off.*
Ingrid Newkirk, for those who don't know, is the woman who founded PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. She's also a bigmouthed idiot who equates a human life with that of a chicken:
"Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in salughterhouses." (Washington Post, November 13, 1983)
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this crackpot actually tried to compare the loss of chicken lives to the inhumanity that Hitler's henchmen visited upon Jews. She didn't stop there, either. In 2003, 20 years after her original idiotic statement, her organization launched it's Holocaust on your plate' campaign Link.
That's not the only time she's opened her big mouth and squarely inserted her foot:
"There's no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals." (Vogue, 1989)
But wait, there's more! She actually wrote a letter to the later Yasser Arafat, complaining about a suicide bombing that she'd heard about. Perhaps she was redeeming herself, you say? Negative. She wrote because a donkey had been used in the bombing. Yep. A donkey. She was so moved by the loss of an animal life...she totally ignored the human toll; that was insignificant. In fact, when the Washington Post asked her if she was going to complain about the humans who were blowing themselevs and each other up, she said "it's not my place to inject myself into human wars".
It's not her place to inject herself. Not into wars, anyway....she certainly feels it's okay to inject her and her organization into schools and the minds of our children. PETA apparently likes to utilize impressionable children. In it's 2003 report, PETA claims to have reached more than 2.3 million children with it's message. They hand out comic books Link Link , give schoolyard demonstrations Link and even send out emails. So, she can't inject herself into wars, but she can sure inject herself elsewhere.
She's even into litigation: "We're looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate concern in law". My god, woman.... we're having a hard time establishing some HUMAN interests as legal concerns, and you're litigating on the behalf of ANIMALS????
Worse still than litigation, Inrgrid is not only aware of but actually endorses the use of physical force of violence as a way to get PETA's message heard. She has no problem with her cronies throwing red paint or animal blood over unsuspecting women wearing fur coats, and she even went so far as to have a dead raccoon served on a dinner plate to the editor-in-chief of Vogue. Nice, huh? Good to see that she has less respect and regard for humans than she does for a subway rat.
Ms Newman has allegedly written into her will that when she dies she wants her body to be used as a human barbecue and her skin made into bags and shoes as her way of showing how against the consumption of animals and ythe use of their skins she is. She also wants her liver to be sent to France as a protest against their manufacture of foie gras pate (liver pate).
Why is anyone listening this crackpot? Why does anyone take her seriously? Am I the only one questioning her mental health??? Is it not plain that she's come unhinged, or is missing some part of her mind? Christ on a cracker, the woman is clearly deranged!
I'd like to suggest that she's be better off if she went to live in remote forest alongside all the little critters whose lives she values more than humans. I'm sure she'd be really happy there.
I know I'd be happy if she did.