Ingrid Newkirk

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

The subject of my documentary film will be based on an American interest group called PETA. PETA stands for “people for the ethical treatment of animals”, it is an organization that stands against animal testing and abuse. Founded March 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco, PETA’s motto remains to be "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way." This interest group’s strong opposing stance on anything related to the animal usage norm or cruelty

A Discussion on Animal Rights "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; The Declaration of Independence holds these rights to be self evident and unalienable. In the eighteenth century when these words were written they were called natural rights, today we call them human rights" (McShea 34). The issue of whether or not to grant animal rights such as those that humans retain, is a greatly disputed issue. Philosophers, clergyman, and politicians have argued the point of animal rights for

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) was founded as a non-profit organization in 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco (PETA np). They first gained attention during the Silver Spring monkeys case, when Alex Pacheco, then a student at George Washington University, volunteered at a lab conducted by Edward Taub, who was testing neuroplasticity on monkeys. Taub had cut sensory ganglia (a nerve cell cluster) that supplied nerves to the monkeys' fingers, hands, arms, legs; with some of

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, also known as PETA, is the first American-based organization for animal rights that was formed in 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco. PETA is one of the most extreme, optimistic, social groups in America that will do anything to catch the person’s eye. Although people may not know much about the PETA organization, they should know the truth about it because they don’t believe animals have rights, they lie in their advertisements, and edit undercover

In Buddhism, one of the most important concepts is ahimsa, the basic principle of refraining from the destruction of life. Roughly about 10% of the world’s population practices Buddhism, which converts to just over 500 million in the world, according to a BBC archive. In Islam, particular animal rights were recognized by the Sharia (Islamic Law). The prophet of Islam, Muhammad had a distinctive set of rules that his followers had to obey, and some of them were related to animal’s rights to where

Animals Deserve Rights Rayvin Scott Azusa Pacific University, University College   "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; The Declaration of Independence holds these rights to be self-evident and unalienable. In the eighteenth century when these words were written they were called natural rights, today we call them human rights" (McShea 34). The issue of whether or not to grant animal rights such as those that humans retain, is a greatly disputed issue. Philosophers, clergyman, and politicians

attention. According to founder of The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Ingrid Newkirk, PETA prides themselves on their “colorful and controversial gimmicks—such as jumping on stage at a fashion show to protest a designer’s promotion of fur—both consistently and certainly grab more headlines, thus bringing the animal rights message to audiences around the country and often the world” (PETA.org). Newkirk herself states that extremism and outrage provide the fuel for PETA. She feels PETA

All animals, all living things shouldn’t be treated cruelly. Most animals are defenseless and haven’t done anything wrong and we humans have the ability to treat them kindly and help those animals who are being tested on and being hunted down one by one for their fur, tusks, skin, feathers, or just as trophies, etc.  I choose the Silver Spring Monkey case because as I was reading about it and looking at pictures of the terrible conditions of them I knew that I had to write about it.  I feel very

believes that “ Animals are not ours to eat. Wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way” and fights to protects those rights of animals (PETA). PETA was founded in March 1980 by animal rights activist Alex Pacheco and Ingrid Newkirk. The organization first became known in May 1981 during the Silver Springs Monkeys case. The case involved seventeen wild monkeys that were born in the Philippines and brought to the United States and kept in Silver Spring Maryland at the Institute