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Free the Animals: The Amazing, True Story of the Animal Liberation Front in North America (30th Anniversary Edition) Paperback – May 5, 2022

by Ingrid Newkirk (Author)
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Told as a thriller, Free the Animals is a classic work of radical popular storytelling. A classic in the mold of Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang.

First published by Noble Press in 1992, then reprinted and revised by Lantern in 2005 and 2012, this thirtieth anniversary edition is revised, expanded, newly typeset, updated, and has a new foreword, by Academy Award–winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, and an afterword, by Dr. Emily Trunnell, who describes whether and how the experiments you read about in this book have changed (or have not) over the last three decades.

Free the Animals is the story of Valerie, a twenty-three-year-old police officer in Montgomery County, Maryland, whose world is turned upside down when she learns about the abuses of animals in laboratories. The book describes how this law-abiding woman comes to challenge the system by taking direct action and examines why ordinary people are moved to do extraordinary things on behalf of animals. Full of fascinating characters, vivid descriptions, and thrilling incidents, and rich with details on what it means to live life on the run from the law (and agents provocateurs), Free the Animals is not only a classic for our times but a compellingly relevant examination of our cruelty to other animals.
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Ingrid E. Newkirk is cofounder and president of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), the largest animal rights organization in the world. Her campaigns to save animals have been featured in The Washington Post and other national newspapers. She has appeared on The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Nightline, and 20/20, among others, and has spoken internationally on animal protection, from the steps of the Canadian Parliament to the streets of New Delhi, India. Her website is peta.org.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lantern Publishing & Media; Anniversary edition (May 5, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 420 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 159056670X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590566701
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.035 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 1.1 x 8.9 inches
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Ingrid Newkirk, feisty author of 'Free the Animals: The Amazing, True Story of the Animal Liberation Front in North America,' has been arrested dozens of times for protesting the abuse of animals on fur farms and in laboratories and was jailed for disrupting a pigeon shoot attended by the Ku Klux Klan. She has pulled a carriage through the streets of Mumbai, India, to secure the retirement of horses from hard labor; caged herself to prevent the drowning of stray dogs in Taiwan; and closed down a live-rat exhibit in the sewers of Paris. She is the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) U.S. and all international PETA entities.

Joaquin Phoenix, who wrote the foreword to 'Free the Animals,' has acquired the rights to turn it into a movie, and the book has received enthusiastic endorsements from such stars as Oliver Stone, Bill Maher, Pamela Anderson, James Cromwell, and Kim Basinger.

Newkirk’s work is the subject of the on-demand HBO special 'I Am an Animal,' she was named a top businessperson of the year in Forbes magazine, and she has been profiled in The New Yorker and People magazine.

Among her accomplishments, Newkirk achieved the passage of legislation to create the first spay/neuter clinic in Washington, D.C.; coordinated the first arrest in U.S. history of a scientist on cruelty-to-animals charges; and, most recently, orchestrated the closure of a beagle-breeding facility that sold thousands of dogs into experimentation. She spearheaded the shutdown of the U.S. Department of Defense’s underground “wound laboratory” and ended General Motors’ crash tests on animals.

She is the author of several other books, including 'Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion,' '250 Vital Things Your Cat Wants You to Know: The Cat Guardian’s Bible,' 'Making Kind Choices: Everyday Ways to Enhance Your Life Through Earth- and Animal-Friendly Living,' 'You Can Save the Animals: 251 Simple Ways to Stop Thoughtless Cruelty,' and 'The PETA Celebrity Cookbook.'

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Abba
5.0 out of 5 stars My heroes
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2022
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Outstanding book! Incredible experiences! I felt like I was right there with them as they did the stakeouts. Go to change.org to sign petitions on animal testing. PETA has made huge strides educating & exposing the imprisonment & experiments of dogs, cats & many other animals. The lab “doctors” do it mostly for the millions of federal grant money. Healthy animals are bred, bought for cheap or stolen from back yards. But computer modeling & human cells are alternately used now. Then why are 110Million animals still being used in labs? Every year $32Billion of OUR taxpayer dollars are given to animal research. Some are caged for decades & go years not leaving the cramped cage. Animal testing is barbaric to animals, outdated & unreliable to humans. Chimpanzees can live 50 years in captivity. In one of their raids they saw thousands of chimps in dark isolated cages banging head on bars, going insane from boredom, suffering miserably from paralyzed limbs, holes in skulls. There’s no painkillers used before during or after. Experimenters force-feed chemicals into their eyes or body, implant wires in their brains, crush their spines, blind, paralyze, infect with disease & much more. Makes me wonder who’s really the superior species.
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Vivian
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful and inspiring
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2022
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I wish everyone would read this book. Just try it!
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Ellie Hansen
5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilling and inspiring...a must read!
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2022
I read this book in 2 days. I simply couldn't put it down! The book made me question everything about myself as a person and an animal rights activist. How far would I go to help dogs and other animals being cruelly experimented on? Above all, it made me think—What is our collective responsibility to stand up for what is right and just? What does it take to bring about change, even if means putting ourselves out there…starting an uprising…and going outside our comfort zone?
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jim
5.0 out of 5 stars a difficult read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2023
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A well written book, that charts one person's journey into helping animals. The "diffcult read" comes when details are presented of the nature of the experiments that the animals are subjected to. An uncomfortable view of a society that endorse these experiments, makes the word "humanity" seem like a cruel joke.
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