PETA: People Of Ethical Treatment Of Animals

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“There are many words to describe their (PETA’s) tactics: bold, passionate, moving… disturbing, misleading, inaccurate, extreme…” (M-K Jones) PETA is an organization that stands for the People of Ethical Treatment of Animals. However, PETA is known for killing more animals than they are saving. PETA also has the reputation of outrageous and uninformed campaign ads that are regularly offensive to the Agriculture industry. Offensive or not statistics are statistics and they say that 97.3% of animals, under PETA’s care, have been killed in the last year(2). Even their adoption/transfer rate went down by an outrageous amount of 14%. Therefore, PETA jumped right to Euthanasia, which ended up killing 2317 dogs and cats (2). PETA might as well …show more content…

Thus PETA starts the new campaign, which consested of six multicolored bunnies to support gay and animal rights in the month of June. However, PETA definitely could not had the thought process of comparing animal rights to gay rights, could they? Turns out they could, and that was exactly their new campaign strategy.(7) As PETA supporters would chant “We want rights for all!” to gain more followers from the LGBT(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community. By all means there is nothing wrong with supporting the LGBT community and their rights however, there is a problem with comparing gay rights to animal …show more content…

Pro PETA means that a person believes in PETA and in all the “facts” that PETA supplies its supporters. Although many people are anti PETA it is easy to fall for PETA’s charm. For starters PETA’s website is full of “facts” and of stories about how its’ volunteers saved all different types of animal. PETA also has some of the most convincing commercials out there. These commercials are equipped with sad songs and famous people that support PETA asking you to sign up and support the poor animals. Another thing that could be appealing to the public is PETA’s scandalous advertising. By being so wild it could easily attract new members to come and support PETA’s

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