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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Ingrid Newkirk
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 11
Activist
Animal Rights Advocate
Film Director
Ingrid Elizabeth Newkirk
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