PETA President Ingrid Newkirk Goes On The Colbert Report
 Friday, February 29th, 2008

PETA President and co-founder, Ingrid Newkirk, with her dog "Little Man"

Speaking of The Colbert Report, President and co-founder of People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Ingrid Newkirk, was on Comedy Central with Stephen Colbert today discussing animal rights, vegetarianism, the love of dogs, and her new book, Making Kind Choices.  Colbert gave her a little bit of a hard time, but the discussion was informative and fuzzy overall.

Watch the video clip:

I like and respect most of what PETA does, although I don't agree that everyone in the world should become a vegetarian.  That would seriously mess with the Circle of Life.  PETA has also a proponent of people not eating fish, too, which is hardly feasible.

We cut this clip before the part where Ingrid started talking about how upon her death she would let everyone pass around her barbequed limbs and eat them.  That's when it got a little too weird, even for us.

However, I still like Ingrid, I understand and sympathize with her plight, and link to PETA often - recently (and especially) for the campaign, in which Pamela Anderson and Brigitte Bardot are taking part, to save baby seals from being slaughtered in and around the Arctic.

I also completely agree with their antifur stance...though the wording in their recent Top Ten Worst Dressed list was more than a little harsh!

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