PETA's Emergence: A Strain Theory Perspective

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Strain Theory best explains the emergence of PETA. PETA believes that society has a big problem with the way that they treat animals which led to their first protest event. The case that really got PETA mobilizing and famous was the Silver Spring Monkeys. To sum up this case, they basically volunteer to work at the Institute for Behaviorial Research and they were brought into see how everything works. She found out that these monkeys were treated cruelly because they live in tight spaces, they were injured and although they applied bandages; it was only once and then they would use reusable old bandages that were already dirty, not given food, and in fact these monkeys were pretty much had abnormal behaviors. They took photographs as evidence

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