What is PETA? What do they do?

Question

I hear good things sometimes like they fight animal cruelty but sometimes I hear bad things like they kill animals. How can it fight animal cruelty but kill animals? Is there like two different PETAS or someting?

Answer 1

people for the ethical treatment of animals is PETA they do not kill animals they protect them they best they can and are against any animal abuse

Answer 2

Peta is people for the ethical treatment of animals- as above answers have said.  They do kill animals, but on the ones that are suffering, and can't be saved.  Sometimes it's better to put animals out of their misery.

Answer 3

PETA- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

The are a HUGE animals rights group based in the USA. They are against owning pets, wearing fur, and eating meat. Yet they killed 18 thousand animals in one year while they could only adopt out 17 pets. They want everyone to be a Vegan, no animal products at all. No eggs, milk, or meat. They have been know to support people who blow up Animal testing laboratories, (which killed animals in the process), and run nude in spain. They support nude protest.

www.peta.org

Answer 4

PETA is a animal rights program

a little to crazy if you ask me

if you step on a bug they will be at your house in 30 minutes or less

Answer 5

PETA puts down thousands of animals each year. The thing is you have to be an adult and acknowledge that an animal condemned to suffer from disease, illness, or poor treatment may, in certain circumstances, be better off (or more ethically treated) by humanly putting it down, rather than letting it suffer.

Answer 6

Here's PETA's stance on pets..

http://www.peta.org/campaigns/ar-petaonp...

"We at PETA very much love the animal companions who share our homes, but we believe that it would have been in the animals' best interests if the institution of "pet keeping"—i.e., breeding animals to be kept and regarded as "pets"—never existed."

http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display...

"In a perfect world, animals would be free to live their lives to the fullest, raising their young and following their natural instincts in their native environments. Domesticated dogs and cats, however, cannot live “free” in our concrete jungles, so we are responsible for their care. People with the time, money, love, and patience to make a lifetime commitment to an animal can make an enormous difference by adopting an animal from a shelter or rescuing an animal from a perilous

life on the streets. IT IS IMPORTANT, ALSO, TO KEEP OUR COMPANION ANIMALS FROM REPRODUCING, WHICH PERPETUATES A CLASS OF ANIMALS WHO ARE

FORCED TO RELY ON HUMANS TO SURVIVE."

Here's their stance on vegetarianism versus the ASPCA's stance..

VEGETARIANISM

Peta-

http://www.peta.org/about/faq-veg.asp

"“Why do you try to force vegetarianism on others? Isn't it a personal choice?”

From a moral standpoint, actions that harm others are not matters of personal choice. "

In other words, PETA is all for banning the choice to eat meat..

http://www.peta.org/about/faq.asp

"“It’s fine for you to believe in animal rights, but why do you try to tell other people what to do?”

Everybody is entitled to his or her own opinion, but freedom of thought is not the same thing as freedom of action. You are free to believe whatever you want as long as you don’t hurt others. You may believe that animals should be killed, that black people should be enslaved, or that women should be beaten, but you don’t always have the right to put your beliefs into practice."

Compare to ASPCA

ASPCA

http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pag...

"3.1 Eating Meat

The ASPCA believes that whether or not to consume animals, and animal products such as milk and eggs, is a personal and private determination that must be left to each individual. However, the ASPCA firmly believes that animals who are bred, raised and killed or harvested for human consumption, like all animals, are entitled to protection from distress and suffering during their lives and at the time of their deaths."

Basically, they think it would be better if dogs and cats were extinct. Better off dead then a slave to people. BUT they would make it illegal tomorrow to raise animals for meat if they could. So, if you did have a dog, you wouldn't be able to buy food for it if PETA had their way.  

Answer 7

it stands for:

people for the ethical treatment of animals

they are against anything that has to do with animals

http://www.peta.org/?c=weekly_enews

Answer 8

hello there

PETA stands for "people for the ethical treatment of animals".they are an animal rights group that is one of the most well known.

yes,they fight animal cruelty in a sense but at the same time,they kill animals.if you will ask how does that work,the simple answer is that PETA aims fro all animals to be free in the wild.they want humans to be vegetarians and they want people to abandon their pets in the wild.they aim to free animals from human's hands.

they may be a group that stands against animal cruelty but at the same time,they are doing animal cruelty themselves.they kill animals just to show humans that animals suffer because of us.they want to show us a so-called "lesson".

PETA in both a humane and an inhumane animal rights group.

best wishes!

Answer 9

PETA is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Check out PETA.org for more info...

Answer 10

PETA DONT EUTHANISE JUST FOR ILLNESS

they do it, cos they dont want people having pets.

Peta doesnt care about conservation.

Peta doesnt care about wildlife, unless its wildlife in a lab.

Peta doesnt care about companion animals, unless they are in a lab.

Considering how many healthy companion animals peta kills, wonder what they would do with the one in labs? probably kill them. Peta is a front for extremist activation. go see http://www.petakillsanimals.com/ to get a reall look inside PETA( and for nyone saying im talking rubbish, i used to give to peta, till i found this out, if they have so much money, why not open rescue cnters.)