"She has tweaked it over the years, but it still reads like a horror movie prop list: her liver is to be sent to France to be made into foie gras, her skin to Hermes to create a handbag and her lips to whichever US president is in power, to shame them for granting a patronising pardon to a turkey each Thanksgiving."
"As wills go, it's straight out of the Peta playbook: an audacious stunt of the kind that has made them the world's most well-known, successful and in some quarters reviled animal rights organisation. I know I'll never be made a dame, Newkirk says, laughing. I'm too controversial. Forty-five years into Peta's existence, she can claim to have won many battles. Animal testing is marginally down, with multinational companies having to at least pay lip service to ideas around animal cruelty and environmentalism."
Ingrid Newkirk survived a near-fatal plane incident at 54 and scribbled a provocative will directing her organs and skin to shame animal-product industries and political rituals. Peta became known for audacious stunts and celebrity endorsements that normalized direct-action activism. The organisation marks measurable wins: animal testing has declined marginally and multinational companies increasingly acknowledge cruelty and environmental concerns. YouGov data indicates over 25 million people worldwide have tried veganism. Persistent controversy surrounds Peta's tactics, and critics question whether campaigning against specific fashion items matters amid broader global waste, humanitarian and climate crises.
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