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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (101527)	4/22/2005 12:07:11 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Ingrid Newkirk seems much more annoying at that website than she actually is, really. In person she is very well dressed, very refined (upper class English accent), soft spoken, very articulate, compassionate and mellow. A person you would really like having tea with or taking a walk with on a windy beach. I think she probably has mellowed out quite a bit since some of her earlier stances in the 1980's. Haven't most of us? She herself has dogs, as do most PETA staff members. That early stuff about them running free doesn't sound very practical, or safe for them. She really likes the taste of seafood, even though she won't eat it anymore, and tells an interesting story about the realization she had after she ordered a restaurant lobster to be sacrificed for her dinner (she devoured it and it was delicious, but she went home and realized what she had done and burst into tears--a real turning point. She likes to talk now about how to be kinder to mosquitos and ants and such (without letting them takeover your house). I think her positions have become a bit more Buddhist--she and the Dalai Lama are very close. More like do no harm. Like all young radicals, she eventually matured. I think it is vital that the world has voices like hers speaking out on behalf of animals.