PETA: People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals

“We do not advocate right to life for animals”, claims PETA president Ingrid Newkirk (Winograd np). However, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is an animal rights organization. They constantly make headlines for their bold, passionate, moving, disturbing, misleading, inaccurate and extreme tactics. PETA has infinite propaganda claiming their organization is vital to saving the organisms of our world. The issue of animal rights is a very complex and touchy subject. Positive and negative aspects, both arise in the animal rights issues. Each side seems to have major contradictions to both themselves and to each other. Animal rights activists involved with PETA have proposed that, in the basic interest of the animals, such things

Like us, they are capable of suffering and have an interest in leading their own lives. The heart of all PETA’s actions is the idea that it is the right of all beings—human and nonhuman alike—to be free from harm (PETA np). They focus most of their attention in the four areas where animals suffer most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry (PETA np). They presume that we have the power to spare animals from excruciating pain by making better choices on the food we eat, the things we buy, and the activities we support. The first issue with PETA’s message is they are often offensive and sometimes disturbingly incorrect. Asserting that such an influential organization is willing to intentionally mislead the general public is hard to comprehend. However, the information they present is sometimes so blatantly imprecise that the only explanations are purposeful deception or a low level of education about the processes they speak on. Which of these scenarios are worse to believe; the institution as a whole blatantly lies to achieve goals, or that it lacks the thought to fact check some of the simplest of

PETA is not an animal welfare group; they are an animal rights group. Animal welfare and animal rights are immensely different. Most welfare advocates state that they seek to prevent cruelty, reduce unnecessary stress and suffering, and implement humane treatment/slaughter standards. Animal rights, however, is a colossal leap above this ideal. The latter is most commonly defined as the belief that any and all human use of living organisms should end. This includes, but is not limited to hunting, livestock production, entertainment, laboratory animals, and even ownership of companion animals like your family