Referred to as the “Queen of the Animal Rights Movement” by Rich Roll, PETA co-founder and bestselling author Ingrid Newkirk joins Kathy on the podcast this week to talk about the 30th anniversary edition of her landmark novel, Free The Animals: The Amazing, True Story of the Animal Liberation Front in North America. In this incredible episode, Kathy and Ingrid will talk about:

How Ingrid responds to criticism about PETA’s more “controversial” protest tacticsFree The Animals unique story as a fictional novel “completely based on fact” from the early days of the animal rights movementThe role of the Animal Liberation Front in PETA’s early days in the 1980s, and the widespread misunderstanding the ALF faced from the government and the mediaThe Research Modernization Deal, a fully constructed proposal from PETA to create animal-free testing in the United StatesThe story of Britches, a monkey who was rescued from horrific lab testing and eventually found a happily ever after with a surrogate mother The exciting news that animal activist and Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix acquiring the film rights for the book

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