 It is an international nonprofit charitable organization that is held in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, India, and the Asia-Pacific Region.  PETA has over 2.0 million member and supporters.  It is the largest animal rights organization in the world.  Factory farms, laboratories, clothing trade, and entertainment industry are PETA’s main focuses.  PETA was founded in 1980 and is dedicated to defending and establishing the rights of all animals.  They work through many different ways as listed: › Public education › Research › Cruelty investigations › Animal rescue › Special events › Protest campaigns › Celebrity involvement › Legislation

 PETA believes and operates under the rule that animals are not ours to eat, wear, use for entertainment, or experiment on.  They promote kind treatment of animals by educating the policymakers and public about animal abuse.  They normally achieve long-term changes that are proved to help the quality of life and death of many animals.

 PETA has many more Accomplishments but I will only list a few.  PETA learned in 1981 of the abuse of animals in experiments. They then launched the “Silver Spring Monkeys” case. This resulted in the first person arrested for animal experimenting.  PETA released a video about the appalling treatment of primates at the University of Pennsylvania head injury laboratory, resulting in the university losing there funding for the study.  PETA convinced juice makers like POM, Ocean Spray, and Welch’s to stop funding animal experimenting.  Also stopped General Motors Corporation from using animals in crash tests.  PETA secured the freedom of polar bears who had been suffering from years in the Suarez Bros. circus with the help of a few celebrities and the German and Canadian government.  Stopped Bobby Berosini, the entertainer, from being able to buy or sell orangutans after he was found beating one on a videotape with a metal rod.  In an undercover investigation at Ohio’s Wright State University PETA stopped the painful scabies experiments on rabbits and dogs.

 Released undercover photos and videotapes showing ducks’ being violently force-fed at a U.S. farm called foie gras. The farm was later raided becoming the first ever farm in the U.S. history to be raided.  A investigation at pig-breeding factory farm in North Carolina and Oklahoma showed the horrible conditions and abuse of pigs, this led to the first-ever felony indictments of farm workers.  They stopped a California furrier after getting a film of him electrocuting chinchillas by clipping wires to the animals’ genitals.

A great example of PETA’s campaign signs to prevent people from wearing or eating cows.

 Animals that are Experimented on are as listed: › Birds › Cats › Dogs › Farmed animals › Fish › Mice › Monkeys › Rats › Rabbits › Other domestic and wild animals  They are tested in the name of biology, biochemistry, genetic manipulation, psychology, and bio-warfare.

 PETA has been known to kill animals because they are more focused on other financial situations.  PETA makes almost 30 million a year from people like us who donate to help the animals. But in fact they use the money to try to turn people into vegetarians are try to make you not drink milk from cows.  They also try recruiting your children into these radical lifestyles of not eating meat and telling other people not to also.  PETA spends millions of dollars defending arsonists that they paid to help them in some sorts.  They are rather hypocritical because they kill animals by trying to save them. In there process to save animals they use the money that is actually for the animals to survive.  The following chart is the number of deaths since 1998 to 2007.

A great example of campaigns against PETA

My standing point on PETA is that they are not as good nor as bad as people make them out to be. PETA does go to the extreme and not even for the right things sometimes. In my opinion, they should try to find homes and prevent animal deaths not inflict them. But they should also stop experimenting and animal abuse. I do agree they have stopped some major animal abuse and helped a few animals. I just think with there resources they should be able to accomplish more. Now PETA only does mostly fur rally's. Where people walk around mostly undressed showing that they would prefer that then wear fur. In these cases they are proving nothing but there arrogance towards the real issues. But in my conclusion on PETA I do think the good outweighs the bad. I do believe they help more than they hurt. I just hope that one day they get a leader that will steer them in a better direction.

I chose PETA because of my love for animals. I also chose PETA because I believe people need to learn more information on them. I want people to know that PETA does good and bad thing. I also want people to know what PETA is. Living in a small town, some people don’t even know what PETA stands for. I would like everyone to understand what animals go threw just to get to our plates. Also how a group like PETA tries to stop meat from even getting to our plate. This is only a small part of my reason of why I chose PETA.

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