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Jun 2020
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Ingrid Newkirk Was a Deputy Sheriff Befo...

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Ingrid Newkirk is the co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA. It may be America’s best-known animal rights organization thanks to legal sophistication, scientific seriousness, and off-the-wall publicity stunts like throwing fa 
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