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PETA founder once loved fur, meat

In a new book The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has confessed that she once loved to wear fur and eat meat!

Updated on: Jun 17, 2009, 16:09:37 IST
ANI | By , New York
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PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has confessed that she once loved to wear fur and eat meat. "There was nothing I loved more than my fur jacket,” the New York Post quoted her writing in a new book The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights.

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“In my 20s, I was eating my way through the animal kingdom, and what I didn''t eat I wore," she added.
However, it was the visit to an animal shelter that changed her outlook towards animals.

This eventually led to the creation of the animal rights'' group in 1980.