Peta Animal Rights

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In the past two decades, the rapidly growing society has come up with new techniques and methods to grow food more efficiently. Today, a shocking 87 percent of the population owns products that are tested on animals or come from companies that promote animal cruelty. Every day in countries around the world, animals are fighting for their lives. They are enslaved, beaten, and kept in chains for entertainment; they are mutilated and stuck in small cages so that we can kill them and eat them; they are blinded, burned, and cut up alive for “science”; they are strangled and skinned alive so that humans around the world can wear fur coats and shoes. Founded in 1980, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is dedicated to establishing and defending the rights of every animal. PETA is the largest animal rights organization in the world, with more than 3 million members and supporters. PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factories, in clothing industries, in laboratories, and in the world of entertainment. PETA takes this position because we believe animals are not ours to eat, experiment on, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any way. …show more content…

PETA believes that the important question to ask is not ‘can they talk’ or ‘can they reason’, but instead; ‘can they suffer’? Animal rights supporters believe that animals have an inherent worth—a value completely separate from their usefulness to humans. Promoting animal rights is not just a philosophy—it is a social movement that refutes America’s traditional view that all nonhuman animals live only for human use. As PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has says, “When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the

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