Ingrid Newkirk

Kathy Snow Guillermo writes that Newkirk disinfected kennels by day and by night studied animal care animal behavior and animal-cruelty investigations. Her position is that the animal rights movement is a revolutionary one and that "[t]hinkers may prepare revolutions but bandits must carry them out. Having collected the evidence Newkirk and Pacheco alerted the police who raided the lab removed the monkeys and charged Taub with 113 counts of animal cruelty and six counts of failing to provide adequate veterinary care.

In her will for example Ingrid Newkirk has asked that her skin be turned into wallets her feet into umbrella stands and her flesh into "Newkirk Nuggets" then grilled on a barbecue. as well as an adoption program and the public funding of veterinary services leading her to be among those chosen in 1980 as Washingtonians of the Year. She is the author of several books including Making Kind Choices (2005) and The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights – Simple Acts of Kindness to Help Animals in Trouble (2009).