Why Is Peta Unethical

In the article “PETA urges L.A. to ban all wild animals from circus performances”, Alexia Fernandez highlights the speed with which animal activists go in order to free wild animals from being used in circuses. According to the spokesman for the Ringling Bros, after L.A. “banned circuses from using bullhooks to manage elephants” in 2014, PETA activists demanded that circuses remove wild animals from their performances and Barnum & Bailey Circus begged to differ by arguing that animals in their facilities are taken good care of and are not mistreated (Fernandez, 2016). In conclusion, both sides of the arguments believe that neither is misinformed.

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is an American organization for animal rights. It gives voice against four major issues regarding treatment of animals such as fur farming, using animals for entertainment, factory farming, and animal testing. PETA also fights against eating animals, killing of animals, keeping chained dogs, bullfighting, and cock fighting. Even though the organization intention is good to save the life of the animal, PETA is often considered as unrealistic and extremist. PETA states that creating the institution of breeding, as “pets” are selfish. According to Newkirk who led PETA, the word “friends” should replace the term “pets.” On the contrary, there are people who are not ready to accept the several arguments of the PETA organization, as they are not suitable for the day-to-day human life. Nearly 75 percent of the human prefer to have non-vegetarian food items, have pet animals, and interest in animal entertainments. People against PETA have an argument that the consumption of grain for animals is greater than for humans. PETA can fight against the act of torturing animals, but should not stop animals being used for food as they are also considered as food as animal helpful for human lives. It does not mean that ever one can kill or torture animals unintentionally, but it is to mean that PETA’s campaigns against animals being used for food, for researches, and for entertainment is wrong and they should be liberal in some

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.

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.

The problem I decided to talk about in my paper is the growing silence of animal cruelty in the United States of America. This is a major problem to society and it continues to affect daily lives each day. I was told by many friends to bring up this issue and talk to the people of the United States. The goal is to bring in newer and more active ways to prevent animal cruelty across America.

In “The Case for Animal Rights”, Regan explores different philosophical ideologies regarding the treatment of animals by humans. He finds flaws with each having done so he puts forth the idea of animal rights as the philosophy which solves the conundrum. The ideologies he discards are such:

The interest group that I will discuss in this paper is the one of the most well-known animal rights groups in the world; People for the ethical treatment of animals, commonly known as, PETA. Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first caught the public's attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. The group first came to

For years animal testing has been happening, with the same animals being used. Instead of using a variety of animals, science labs stick to certain species. PETA names the main core animals being abused are: mice, rats, primates, cats, and dogs. PETA has revealed mice and rats are used for more than just toxicology, they say:

Animal abuse is a serious topic that occurs every day. This happens every day, everywhere. Together people could change the world. Animal abuse is a major cause all around

Today the world is made up of many groups fighting for the same basic right: equality.Yet, the ones who are unable to voice their opinions or speak their minds are left in the dust and at the whim of others opinions. Millions of animals all around the world are being neglected, tortured, abused, and all for the benefits of the human kind. However, there are individuals and organizations who are determined to make a change for these helpless animals such as: Peta, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Food Empowerment Project, and the list continues. Although, these animal activist groups are breaking boundaries that have never been broken before, there is still an argument for animal cruelty. The fight for animal equality is no different than the fights amongst our own kind. Nevertheless, many

The “General Information” chapter discusses what is meant by animal rights and which animals are included in the animal rights movement. The animal rights movement questions whether enforcing and enacting animal rights is a moral issue or a legal one. The author calls for the readers to have an amount of

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.

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

In the article “PETA Should Rethink Its Campaign against Animal Research,” by Jamie L. Vernon, explains that animal testing is a source for finding new treatments for many diseases. The article states that some treatments for diseases involving genetic, and the nervous system can only be found through animal testing. The article also states that even though animals are being killed in the experiment, it is a necessary action to take. The article tells that the ban on animal testing would “significantly impair” the research for new treatments. Article such as Susan Crowell “Animal research saves lives of both humans and animals,” published by Farm and Dairy contribute to the controversy by highlighting the need for animal testing.

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.