Ethical Ethics Of PETA

ASPCA uses fear to get to people's emotions to make them want to adopt a dog or a puppy. Also the ASPCA makes people want to help the dogs or puppies that could possible be put down. Another thing is people like to save animals for a living. In the ASPCA commercial, featuring Sarah McLachlan she uses fear to appeal to people’s emotions to make them feel bad about the poor and upsetting puppies in the ASPCA.

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is one of the most recognizable organizations within the animal rights movement, due in part to their attention grabbing antics and controversial advertisements. While PETA has been successful in creating visual rhetoric that generally appeals to the audience’s cognitive reasoning and emotions they are often not successful in catalyzing actual change in behaviour.

The truth about PETA, is that they do not want all animals to roam free. They want the population of dogs and cats to be reduced through spaying and neutering. They would like people to adopt animals from pounds or animal shelters, rather than buying from pet shops or breeders. They do claim to be the number one animal activist groups out there. Are they who they claim to be? What they don't advertise, is that

PETA, though it does many things, has four main objectives. They focus on animal cruelty on factory farms, which are also known as confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and intensive livestock operations (ILOs). These farms are more worried about profits and high volumes of goods than they are about human health, safe food, the environment, fair treatment of animals, and the surrounding economy (Factory Farms). PETA also focuses on cruel treatment to animals in laboratories, in the fur trade, and in the entertainment industry (like Khartoum). They also work on projects helping birds, beavers, and abused backyard dogs, as some examples. To reach the public, PETA uses many tactics, including working “through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and direct action.” (PETA: Official Page). PETA tries to reach the public any way possible.

"Every year in the United States, one hundred million of mice, rats, dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, and other animals are killed in laboratories across the world" (Harden, 2016). Animal cruelty is unfortunately a growing problem across the world. The ASPCA, or The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, works tirelessly to combat this growing concern and save the lives of innocent animals everywhere. The ASPCA’s mission, as stated by their founder Henry Bergh is "to provide effective means for the prevention of the cruelty to animals throughout the United States" (Bershadker, 2016). This non-profit organization boasts a large team of volunteers passionate about saving the lives of animals and

PETA’s main principle is that “Animals are not ours to consume, wear, experiment on, or for the use of our entertainment.” In layman’s terms, animals should be able live their lives without interference from humans.

Imagine this; You are wearing blinders next to your eyes, like the horses that pull the Amish buggy. You can’t see left, you can’t see right, you can only see straight forward to your set destination. This is how I imagine PETA and its followers when they wrote their most recent article about the FFA and their views about it. They only saw one view of the FFA and that was the only way they promoted it. You would think they would be thanking the FFA for all they do against animal abuse and their work of promoting animals as more than just “food” or a “project”

As one of the most well-recognized animal rights organizations, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, better known as PETA, uses different rhetorical techniques in order to convey their message that “it is the right of all beings - human and non-human - to be free of harm.” (peta.org) PETA has made a significant impact on the animal rights movement over the past 36 years through their persistence, campaigning, and advocating for animal rights. According to PETA’s website they focus their attention on the four areas which produce the greatest amount of animal suffering: factory farms, the clothing trade, laboratories, and the entertainment industry. “Creative appeals of an advertisement [determine] the persuasive style of the message content. Message content consists of what is stated in the ad as well as the manner in which it was said. Persuasive or creative appeals of advertisements have been depicted in numerous ways including fear, humor, sex, and intellectual appeals” (Bebko, and Sciulli 23). PETA fights for ethical advancements with regard to humane treatment for animals while attempting to elicit the same compassion a person would have for another human being. It is the goal of PETA’s unorthodox rhetoric in videos, exposes, protests and campaigns to acknowledge animals rights issues to

In 2003, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) released a campaign called ‘Holocaust on Your Plate’. This display compared pictures of animals in a slaughterhouse against pictures of Nazi concentration camp. This campaign stemmed from Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote: ‘In relation to them [animals], all people are Nazis; for them it is an eternal Treblinka’ — a death camp in Poland” (CNN, 2003). It’s meant to emotionally target the viewer, similar to a scare tactic. It was also deeply insulting to many holocaust survivors. I believe this was a poor decision on PETA’s part, and the bad definitely outweighed the good for everyone.

What is the ASPCA the American society prevention of animal cruelty? They are trying to prevent the cruelty of animals and for the people who are treating them poorly should go to jail.

Take PETA for example. What was once a small animal activist group, now has over 3 million members and supporters worldwide. PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Their slogan is “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any

Some organizations such as FFA do not support PETA and as result PETA tries to demoralize and discourage FFA members that what we are doing in our program is morally wrong and unjust. Sure this comes as a big shocker that PETA can't stand the FFA it is one of the largest student led organizations in the world so they may feel a little threatened. Speaking as a current FFA member I can strongly say that PETA does not understand what the FFA does for the world, chapters and individuals around the world. If you didn’t know FFA stands for FFA stands for Future Farmers of America.

Peta created an ad that would help the cause of overwieght children. In the ad it tells us that "Peta presents an image of child obesity that might want to make the viewer grab the burger from the child before she gets is in her mouth!",this here is letting us know that Peta is trying new ideas that would make people think about child obesity and how to prevent it from

The study of good and bad, right and wrong, moral principles or value held by a person or society, promoting human welfare, maximizing freedom minimizing pain and suffering is called ethics. The discipline that studies the moral relationship of human beings and also the value and moral status of the environment and its non-human contents is called environmental ethics. It considers the ethical relationship between the humans and the environment. Animal and animal rights are the highlighted topic in the environmental ethics.

Growing up I remember getting flyers and stickers in the mail from an organization called PETA. Now that I am older I have a better understanding of the existence of this group. PETA, the largest animal rights organization in the world was created in 1980. This organization