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IDIOT with Laura Clery

A Human BBQ Episode 63

IDIOT with Laura Clery

Laura Clery & Studio71

Relationships, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

You’re not ready for this one.. Ingrid Newkirk, the President and Founder of the controversial organization PETA joins me to share the moment she dedicated her whole life to protecting animals and the unimaginable things she plans to do with her body parts after she dies... We’re thinking for ourselves now and I’ll share how this lifestyle has changed my life.    Finding Laura Clery: Website: thelauraclerypodcast.com  Read/Listen: Idiot & Idiots Checkout our new Kids Show: Pammy's World TikTok & Youtube & Facebook: @Laura Clery Instagram: @lauraclery   Episode Breakdown:   -00:07 Welcome Ingrid Newkirk, the President and Founder of PETA   -00:55 The controversy around change     -1:30 Can we kill a mosquito…?    -3:28 How Ingrid grew up    -4:20 Everything we didn’t know    -5:10 Breaking federal law for the snails!    -8:35 How do we shift our habits?   -11:17 What changed Laura’s life   -16:13 We address the controversy and rumors    -20:35 What Ingrid wants her body turned into after death    -22:05 The MOST dramatic campaign    -25:16 This show is sponsored by AG1, my amazing green supplement. It’s completely vegan and helps with my gut health! If you order through me at drinkag1.com/idiot you’ll get a year supply of immune supporting vitamin D and five FREE travel packs.    -27:39 The president of France will be receiving Ingrid’s liver after she dies    -31:15 Ingrid’s regrets    -32:00 Love at first fur demonstration    -35:20 How to respond to the haters    -37:00 Why to adopt not shop  -39:31 Read one of Ingrid’s books or visit PETA’s website to learn more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome to Idiot.

0:02.4

Welcome.

0:03.6

You're not an idiot.

0:05.9

The Idiot's me.

0:07.1

I'm here with Ingrid Newkirk, president and founder of PETA.

0:12.1

What is PETA? People for the ethical treatment of animals.

0:18.4

Why is it so controversial? Well there are a lot of people who exploit animals consciously or not, and a lot of big businesses,

0:27.0

like the circus and animal experimentation, the people who sell food to the labs for example are decapitators and then you've got the furriers the people who make leather the meat trade chicken farmers so of course they all hate us and we strike a nerve but then there are people who are

0:46.4

eating meat they're consuming dairy they're buying things that come off animals

0:51.6

backs and they get their back up a bit when we say

0:56.1

look there's something else you can do let us show you how cruelly these things

1:00.7

are produced and then give you options and I think it's a human nature to say I don't want to change.

1:08.0

Change is a really frightening thing.

1:10.0

So that is why people are a little bit nervous about us and they shouldn't be because we're all about being positive and having a kinder world.

1:18.0

It's all about kindness.

1:20.0

Yes, yeah, that's okay. I know now I know you're vegan but have you ever killed a mosquito?

1:28.0

Probably. Okay because I'm about to there's a mosquito right loose.

1:33.1

I don't believe you.

1:34.6

You don't believe me?

1:35.9

What if it were a bee?

1:37.3

Would you kill?

1:38.4

No.

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