Consider the following statements from Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and vice-president of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the largest animal rights organization.
"A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy."
Medical research is "immoral even if it's essential".
Even if animal testing produced a cure for AIDS, "We'd be against it".
And here's the kicker: "Six million people died in concentration camps," she told the Washington Post, "but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses".