Referred to as the “Queen of the Animal Rights Movement” by Rich Roll, PETA co-founder and bestselling author Ingrid Newkirk joins Kathy on the podcast this week to talk about the 30th anniversary edition of her landmark novel, Free The Animals: The Amazing, True Story of the Animal Liberation Front in North America. In this incredible episode, Kathy and Ingrid will talk about:
- How Ingrid responds to criticism about PETA’s more “controversial” protest tactics
- Free The Animals unique story as a fictional novel “completely based on fact” from the early days of the animal rights movement
- The role of the Animal Liberation Front in PETA’s early days in the 1980s, and the widespread misunderstanding the ALF faced from the government and the media
- The Research Modernization Deal, a fully constructed proposal from PETA to create animal-free testing in the United States
- The story of Britches, a monkey who was rescued from horrific lab testing and eventually found a happily ever after with a surrogate mother
- The exciting news that animal activist and Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix acquiring the film rights for the book
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