PETA
Animal rights group
PETA is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an American animal rights organization founded in 1980.
Known for provocative campaigns and celebrity endorsements, PETA advocates against animal testing, factory farming, and fur: PETA protesters disrupted the fashion show.
The group draws both support and criticism for its confrontational tactics. (Lowercase peta is a metric prefix meaning quadrillion.)
Moral claims for fauna
- furAnimal body hair
- circusTraveling entertainment with performers
- zooPublic animal collection
- vivisectionSurgery on living animals
factory farming · leather · wool · SeaWorld · dissection · animal testing · veganism · cruelty-free
Capacity for subjective experience
- speciesismMoral preference by organism type
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- personhoodStatus as a person
- liberationRelease from constraint
exploitation · suffering · compassion · welfare · rights · bioethics · consciousness · commodification
Pursuing wild game
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
- trophyAward for winning
- bullfightingCombat sport with bovines
- rodeoCowboy skills competition
greyhound racing · horse racing · puppy mills · foie gras · whaling · dogfighting · exotic pets · ivory
animal rights
Moral claims for fauna
vivisection · factory farming · leather · wool · SeaWorld · dissection · animal testing · veganism · cruelty-free · adoption
sentience
Capacity for subjective experience
- speciesismMoral preference by organism type
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- personhoodStatus as a person
liberation · exploitation · suffering · compassion · welfare · rights · bioethics · consciousness · commodification · captivity
hunting
Pursuing wild game
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
- trophyAward for winning
- bullfightingCombat sport with bovines
rodeo · greyhound racing · horse racing · puppy mills · foie gras · whaling · dogfighting · exotic pets · ivory · endangered species
- advocacy groupsadvocacy group, lobbying groups, lobby group, NAACP, lobby groups
- Animal CharitiesASPCA, RSPCA, WWF, World Wildlife Fund, Blue Cross
- animal activismanimal liberation, demonstration, campaign, rescue, anti-hunting
- pet organizationsASPCA, RSPCA, animal shelters, no-kill shelters
- animals and humanspets, cats, dogs, pet ownership, companion animals
- organizationsorganization, organizations, company, companies, club
PETAfactory farming
Intensive livestock production system
trophy hunting · Tyson Foods · whaling industry · dog fighting · cockfighting