Last year, PETA programs sponsored by its education department reached 170,000 schoolteachers and enrolled more than 4 million students. Seeing PETA's unprecedented growth, other older animal protection organizations have grown more militant in an effort to not be over-shadowed. Alex Pacheco, PETA's former director, now head of an animal rights fundraising company. We're looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law. Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's longtime president.
Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use.
It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable. Neil Barnard, PETA science advisor and president of the militant Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to ground. If I had a more guts, I'd light a match. Ingrid Newkirk, after an underground group Justice Department mailed 87 razor-blade laced threats to medical researchers studying news drugs on primates.