PETA: Animal Rights Essay

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.

According to this text, the authors mention that PETA's basic principle of animal rights is: “animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment” (James 605).The authors follow that quote with the statement, “In order to do this, the animals must all be set free to roam the grounds as they please.” (James 605). If left up to PETA, there would be no more circus and no meat to eat. If it were not for the use of animals, man kind would not be where they are today. They wouldn't have survived over the many years that have passed. They used animals' skin for warmth, animals' meat for nutrition, and horses and cows for transportation.

According to Gallup.com a third of Americans want animals to have the same rights as people. The Animal Bill of Right implies that animals have the right to be free from exploitation and cruelty, It also prohibits laboratory animals to be used for research. Animals will also have healthy diets and medical care. It will also provide them with an environment that satisfies their needs. I do not believe we need a Bill of Rights for animals. This would not only be extreme but it will affect human culture, medical research, and cost of food

Animal testing has been one of the issues that people are fighting overtime because of its moral. Even though some results of tests are successful on people, many people are still fighting for the animal’s rights. They believe that animals should have their own rights to live a free life where they belong, just like their species. In scientists point of view, animals have been one of the main subjects to test on, but a lot of them are currently looking forward to use and develop alternatives for the cruel act of animal testing.

In 1981 PETA went undercover in a Maryland research facility where they found the torturing of numerous Silver Spring monkeys. This became the first police raid to ever occur.

Today, the discussions about the protection of the animal’s rights have received the attention of many people, many countries in the world. A lot of actions have been made by animal right activists to influence the world. Alex Epstein and Yaron Book, both authors of the “The Evil of Animal ‘Right’,” argue animal right activists use too much violence on their action, which is considered going against the law. Then, the authors give a lot of evidence to prove testing animals are extinct, but using animals for testing gives us new vaccines which make our lives better. Without animals for testing, how can scientists find out the vaccine for diseases? Animal right groups are making many effects to Huntingdon Life Sciences.

According to the ASPCA website, every sixty seconds an animal is abused. Abuse can be in the form of beating, neglecting, or shearing for fur. Animal abuse is a crime that happens far too often in this country. Many cases of animal abuse go undocumented because dogs, cats, horses, birds, sheep, rabbits, etc. do not have a voice. Animal rights organizations try giving these animals a voice to stop horrible abuse. The Humane Society, ASPCA, and Peta display various images, choose specific diction, and express tone to motivate their audience to contribute to their campaign. These campaigns inform people through their advertisements about the issues occurring by using similar and different methods.

PETA’s website have so many things that you can do and find out about and you have the options to volunteer, work at PETA, donate, or intern at PETA (PETA). The way that they do this is by having a big advertisement about animal cruelty and they also have plenty of pictures of animals being treated terribly because that way you can see their point of view and join them out of sympathy or common interest. In my opinion, I feel like PETA uses the prognostic and motivational frame. The reason for motivational frame is because they want to motivate you to join their protest events and protest against animal cruelty. There is this one incident where PETA wrote a letter to Homeland Security to stop the race because it is animal cruelty for forcing dogs to run more than a thousand miles in the ice cold weather (O’Keefe). They take action for what they feel are wrong and immediately take action to it. Also, I feel like their solution to everything is basically stop the animal cruelty by being vegan, treating animals with respect, and don’t wear them around your

Like every war there are two sides. One the INDUSTRY and two the people try to save the animals. The people have been against the industry or “factory farming” for years. Factory farming’s only goal is to make a profit and just as his grandmother refused to eat pork; people are trying so hard to protect animals because “If nothing matters, there’s nothing to save”. (storytelling P17). There are many organizations like PETA (Words/Meaning P71) that will go to wild extremes to showcase the disturbing reality of how the industry treats the

The authors acknowledges that, “ PETA seeks any media attention regardless of whether is positive or negative, and utilizes the potential shock value of media to popularize it's cause, name or point” (Matusitz, Jonathan and Forrester). Any attention is good attention, even negative for PETA. Negative attention is actually more beneficial to them, because controversial will always capture the notice of others more than positive. As a result, more followers; and more followers equates more lives of animals saved. At the end of the day, PETA is controversial, because they want to get their point across & the only way to accomplish this is through controversy.

Animal rights groups are known for their love of animals and trying to do everything in their power to give animals rights. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), is one of the most well known and largest animal rights organizations in the world, with over 6.5 million members and supporters. Most people know what PETA’s mission is, to give animals equal rights as humans, but what many don’t know is what really goes on behind closed doors and away from the media’s eyes. PETA has some rather unquestionably gruesome truth about their organization that they try to keep hidden from their moderately populous supporters.

Animal rights is the idea that all animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives. It’s important to have animal rights because it prevents animals from living horrible, tortured lives for human benefit and entertainment. They have feelings and emotions too, they should be treated as humanely as possible at all times, they are not on this earth for human benefit and usage.

PETA is an organization that has been “trying to change the world” for the last 30 years. Usually, organizations that try to change the world focus on the negatives that people are doing, and glorify what they’re doing to create a good name for their company. A lot of the time, organizations try to reach certain people through advertisement. A great way to advertise a brand is through internet or social media, because with a click of a mouse information can reach a large number of people instantaneously. With the knowledge that they can reach a large amount of people on their Facebook page, PETA makes sure what they post will not necessarily make the reader happy, but to create an alternate sense of reality

This PETA ad is ineffective, to the sense that how feeding big kids meat is child abuse. Its not consider child abuse if the kids dont want to eat healthy or exercise. One reason why kids now want to not eat green foods is because in the peta ad it states that, " a vegan diet can combat child obesity. This ad ineffective and i disagree wit this ad, but it is good ad if they want stop child obesity but they took it overboared when the ad states feedings kids meat child abuse i dont consider that child abuse in any way possible. Thai evidence is a good evidence if they want stop child obesisty not to figure out if this ad is statung that feedings kids meat is child

Non-human animals are given rights only because of their interactions with human beings. Without involvement with humans, animals do not deserve rights. It is through this interaction with humans that animals are even given moral consideration. We do not give rights to a rock simply because it is a creation of Mother Nature, similarly non-human animals do not have rights unless it is in regards to humans. As pointed out by Jan Narveson "morality is a sort of agreement among rational, independent, self-interested persons who have something to gain from entering into such an agreement" (192). In order to have the ability to obtain rights one must be consciously able to enter into an agreement, non-human animals are