October 2004
Thanks to PETA’s persistence, suffering horses were seized from a notorious equine/farmed animal hoarder in Pennsylvania where the local SPCA had refused to take action for these animals and actually claimed that the hoarder was “in compliance.” We went over the agency’s head to the state SPCA and found a wonderful equine expert who agreed to rescue the neglected animals.
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?”
— Ingrid Newkirk, PETA Founder and co-author of Animalkind
