How Old Is Ingrid Newkirk? Ingrid Newkirk Birthday
Ingrid Newkirk was born on June 11, 1949 and is 74 years old now.
Birthday: June 11, 1949
How Old - Age: 74
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Ingrid Newkirk - Biography
Ingrid Newkirk (born June 11, 1949) is a British-born animal rights activist, author, and president and co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world`s largest animal rights organization. She is the author of several books about animal liberation, including Free the Animals (2000), with a foreword from Chrissie Hynde, and Making Kind Choices (2005), which has a foreword by Sir Paul McCartney.Newkirk is best known for the issue awareness campaigns she organizes on behalf of PETA, in order to promote animal rights and veganism. In her will, for example, she has directed that her skin be turned into wallets, her feet into umbrella stands, and her flesh into "Newkirk Nuggets," then grilled on a barbecue. "We are complete press sl*ts," she told The New Yorker. "It is our obligation."Under Newkirk’s leadership in the 1970s as the District of Columbia`s first female poundmaster, legislation was passed to create the first spay/neuter clinic in Washington, D.C., as well as an adoption program, and the public funding of veterinary services, leading her to be named "Washingtonian of the Year" in 1980. At PETA, she has led successful campaigns to stop the use of animals in crash tests, has convinced companies from Gillette to Revlon to stop testing cosmetics on animals, and has persuaded grocery store chains such as Safeway to insist on higher welfare standards from the meat industry.Despite her approach to improving animal welfare, Newkirk remains committed to the idea that "[a]nimals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment." She has been criticized in that regard for her support of actions carried out in the name of the Animal Liberation Front. Her position is that the animal rights movement is an extreme one, and that "[t]hinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out."Newkirk was born in Britain in 1949, living in Ware, Hertfordshire, until she was seven years old. Her father was a navigational engineer, and the family moved to New Delhi, India, where her father worked for the Indian government, while her mother volunteered for Mother Teresa in a leper colony and a home for unwed mothers. Newkirk attended a convent boarding school in the Himalayas for well-to-do Indian nationals and non-natives, although she was the only British child there.
