PETA's Ingrid Newkirk
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Global Reach
Since its founding in the United States in 1980, PETA has exported its activities to many countries abroad. In 1998, Newkirk caged herself at a night market in Taipei, Taiwan to protest the abusive trading of pets that PETA claimed took place there.
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