PETA writes that it is an animal rights organization, and as such it rejects speciesism and the idea of animals as property, and opposes the use of animals in any form: as food, clothing, entertainment, or as research subjects.

PETA opposes the no kill movement, and, according to a Newsweek report, euthanizes an estimated 85 % of the animals that end up at their shelter.

" PETA also opposes the keeping of fish in aquarium tanks, suggesting that people view computer videos of fish instead.

PETA opposes the use of animals for producing clothing that utilizes fur, leather, wool, or silk.

PETA also opposes the use of down from birds and the use of silk from silkworms or spiders.

The animal rights organisation PETA strongly opposes mulesing, says the practice is cruel and painful, and that more humane alternatives exist, and claim that sheep can be spared maggot infestation through more humane methods, including special diets and spray washing.

Commenting on Singer's article " Heavy Petting ," in which he argues that zoosexual activity need not be abusive, and that relationships could form which were mutually enjoyed, Ingrid Newkirk, president of the animal rights group PETA, argued that, " If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer?

PETA, along with other animal rights and animal liberation groups have called attention to fur farming and other practices they consider cruel.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) ( stylized PeTA ) is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president.

The case lasted ten years, involved the only police raid on an animal laboratory in the United States, triggered an amendment in 1985 to that country's Animal Welfare Act, and established PETA as an internationally known organization.

Newkirk and Pacheco are seen as the leading exporters of animal rights to the more traditional animal protection groups in the United States, but sections of the movement nevertheless say PETA is not radical enough — law professor Gary Francione calls them the new welfarists, arguing that their work with industries to achieve reform makes them an animal welfare, not an animal rights, group.

The longest struggle: animal advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA ".

PETA lobbies governments to impose fines where animal-welfare legislation has been violated, promotes a vegan diet, tries to reform the practices in factory farms and slaughterhouses, goes undercover into animal research laboratories, farms, and circuses, initiates media campaigns against particular companies or practices, helps to find sanctuaries for former circus and zoo animals, and initiates lawsuits against companies.

PETA also gives a yearly prize, called the Proggy Award ( for " progress "), to individuals or organizations dedicated to animal welfare or who distinguish themselves through their efforts within the area of animal welfare.

Lindsay Beyerstein criticized PETA saying “ They're the ones drawing disturbing analogies between pornography, misogyny and animal cruelty.

The CCF claimed in a press release that "( a ) n official report filed by PETA itself shows that the animal rights group put to death nearly every dog, cat, and other pet it took in for adoption in 2006.

In another case, two PETA employees were acquitted in 2007 of animal cruelty after at least 80 euthanized animals were left in dumpsters in a shopping center in Ashoskie over the course of a month in 2005 ; the two employees were seen leaving behind 18 dead animals, and 13 more were found inside their van.

In 1999, a North Carolina grand jury handed down indictments against pig-farm workers on Belcross Farm in Camden County, the first indictments for animal cruelty on a factory farm in the United States, after a three-month PETA investigation produced film of the workers beating the animals.

In 2004 The Observer described what it called a network of relationships between apparently unconnected animal rights groups on both sides of the Atlantic, writing that, with assets of $ 6. 5 million, and with the PETA Foundation holding further assets of $ 15 million, PETA funds a number of activists and groups — some with links to militant groups, including the ALF, which the FBI has named as a domestic terrorist threat.

That same year, according to The Observer, PETA gave a $ 5, 000 grant to American animal rights activist Josh Harper, an advocate of arson.

PETA Asia-Pacific was founded by Ingrid Newkirk in Hong Kong in 2005 to support animal rights programs and campaigns in Asia.

While still engaged in legal proceedings over " peta. org ", PETA themselves registered the domains " ringlingbrothers. com " and " voguemagazine. com ", using the sites to accuse Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and Vogue of animal cruelty.

" It's hard enough trying to get people to take animal rights seriously without PETA out there acting like a bunch of jerks ," one activist told writer Norm Phelps.

PETA employees have themselves volunteered for human testing of vaccines ; Scott Van Valkenburg, the group's Director of Major Gifts, said in 1999 that he had volunteered for human testing of HIV vaccines.

In 2011, Colgate-Palmolive was one of the first companies recognized by PETA ( People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ) under the new " working for regulatory change " category for companies that test on animals only when mandated by government regulations and are actively seeking alternatives to animal testing.

However, as of 2011, some organisations ( PETA among others ) claim that Iams is still testing in cruel or inhumane ways, although they do not offer evidence supporting this claim.

Newkirk and PETA both oppose animal testing out of principle as well as on practical grounds.

Before giving money to a health-research charity that isn't approved by PETA, we recommend that you investigate their current policy on animal testing ( policies can change, which is why a response from the charity itself is the most certain way to find out ).

The Olay / Olaz brand is known for animal testing, according to a list published by PETA.

The ten-year battle for custody of the monkeys — described by The Washington Post as a vicious mud fight, during which both sides accused the other of lies and distortion — transformed PETA into a national, then international, movement.

The organization is known for its aggressive media campaigns, combined with a solid base of celebrity support — Pamela Anderson, Drew Barrymore, Alec Baldwin, John Gielgud, Bill Maher, Stella McCartney, and Alicia Silverstone have all appeared in PETA ads.

American writer Don Liddick writes that PETA gave $ 1, 500 to the Earth Liberation Front in 2001 — Newkirk said the donation was a mistake, and that the money had been intended for public education about destruction of habitat, but Liddick writes that it went to the legal defense of Craig Rosebraugh, an ELF spokesman.

PETA is critical of television personalities they call self-professed wildlife warriors, arguing that while a conservationist message is getting across, some of the actions are harmful to animals, such as invading animals ' homes, netting them, subjecting them to stressful environments, and wrestling with them — often involving young animals the group says should be with their mothers.

Gary Francione, professor of law at Rutgers School of Law-Newark, argues that PETA is not an animal rights group — and further that there is no animal rights movement in the United States — because of their willingness to work with industries that use animals to achieve incremental change.

Animal rights, and some animal welfare, organizations — such as PETA and BUAV — question the legitimacy of it, arguing that it is cruel, poor scientific practice, poorly regulated, that medical progress is being held back by misleading animal models, that some of the tests are outdated, that it cannot reliably predict effects in humans, that the costs outweigh the benefits, or that animals have an intrinsic right not to be used for experimentation.

The members of various militia groups formed during Japanese occupation such as the disbanded PETA and Heiho, at that time were encouraged to join the BKR — Badan Keamanan Rakjat ( The People's Security Organization )— itself a subordinate of the " War Victims Assistance Organization ".

SHAC was started in November 1999 by three British animal rights activists — Greg Avery, Heather James, and Natasha Dellemagne — after video footage shot covertly inside HLS in 1997 by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) showed HLS staff shaking, punching, and shouting at beagles in their care.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) and the foundation that manages it — the Foundation to Support Animal Protection, also known as the PETA Foundation — donated over $ 850, 000 to PCRM between 1988 and 2000, and Barnard sat on the Foundation's board until 2005.

PCRM — along with PETA and groups such as the Centers for Disease Control, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving — has been the subject of public criticism for several years by the Center for Consumer Freedom ( CCF ), a non-profit lobby group representing the food and beverage industry.

He commented on the 26th, “ When someone actually coaches or conducts criminal behaviour to impose a political agenda on each and every other citizen of Canada, that does seem to me to meet the test of a terrorist organization .” Byrne continued to say, “ I am calling on the Government of Canada to actually investigate whether or not this organization, PETA, is acting as a terrorist organization under the test that exists under Canadian law .” In response to his interpretation of Canadian law, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said Byrne's reaction was " a silly, chest-beating exercise.

PETA sends its staff undercover into research laboratories, factory farms, and circuses to document the treatment of animals, requiring them to spend many months as employees of the facility, making copies of documents and wearing hidden cameras.

In 2002, a film by animal rights organizations PETA slated Iams for the way the company conducted animal research at external laboratories.

A Center for Consumer Freedom print ad which criticizes the PETA President's statement opposing animal research to cure AIDS, terming it an " extremist agenda.

Debra Saunders, a critic of Newkirk, argues that " PETA assails other parties for killing animals for food or research.

) Police raided the lab, seized the monkeys – which they then handed over to PETA, a move that resulted in their temporary disappearance – and charged Taub with 119 counts of animal cruelty and failure to provide adequate veterinary care, the first such charges brought in the United States against a research scientist.

In 1981, a graduate student and PETA member, Alex Pacheco, volunteered at a research center in Silver Spring, Maryland.

In 2006, the animal rights group PETA incited some controversy over OHSU research involving sheep.

Other groups do not condemn the destruction of property, or intimidation, but do not themselves engage in those activities, concentrating instead on education, research, media campaigns, and undercover investigations: for example, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ).

Animal rights groups such as PETA have attacked Marshall in the past for breeding animals for scientific and medical research.