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

PETA opposes animal testing — whether toxicity testing, basic or applied research, or for education and training — on both moral and practical grounds.

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.

PETA responded that it has no involvement in ALF or ELF actions and does not support violence, though Newkirk has elsewhere made clear that she supports the removal of animals from laboratories and other facilities, including as a result of illegal direct action.

Every week, Newkirk holds what The New Yorker calls a war council, with two dozen of her top strategists gathered round a square table in the PETA conference room, no suggestion considered too outrageous.

McDonald's and Wendy's introduced vegetarian options after PETA targeted them ; Petco stopped selling some exotic pets ; and Polo Ralph Lauren said it would no longer use fur.

PETA supports hearing dog programs where animals are taken from shelters and placed in appropriate homes, but does not endorse seeing-eye-dog programs because, according to one of their Vice Presidents, " the dogs are bred as if there are no equally intelligent dogs literally dying for homes in shelters.

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.

Hicks made no promises and threatened to ban PETA if they made more trouble.

FIRE has no stated political affiliation, and has represented the causes of parties with varied political viewpoints, ranging from conservative, liberal, and religious student groups to other activists such as members of PETA and Professor Ward Churchill.

Covance and PETA agreed to a settlement that resulted in no payment to Covance, and with PETA allowed to continue to publish the video.

Source: PETA has sent an e-mail releasing the image: " We hereby release this image so it can be used by Wikipedia and anyone else, commercial and non-commercial, with no restrictions.

Combs shows up at the camp to kill Stan, but is distracted by a PETA member who throws a bucket of red paint on his fur coat.

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 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.

There is criticism of PETA from both the conservative and radical ends of the movement.

A proponent of abolitionism, Francione argues that PETA is trivializing the movement with what he calls the " Three Stooges " theory of animal rights, making the public think progress is underway when the changes are only cosmetic.

Francione has also criticized PETA for having caused grassroots animal rights groups to close, groups that he argues were essential for the survival of the animal rights movement, which rejects the centrality of corporate animal charities.

The case of the Silver Spring monkeys, an animal-research controversy that lasted ten years, transformed PETA from just Newkirk, Pacheco, and a small group of friends into an international movement.

The proceedings, which lasted years, generated a large amount of publicity for PETA, transforming it from what Ingrid Newkirk called " five people in a basement " into a national movement.

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

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

Logan Scherer, writing for PETA, said that animals sacrificed according to Islamic law can not be stunned before they are killed.

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.

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.

In 2011, PETA named five orcas as plaintiffs and sued SeaWorld over the animals ' enslavement, seeking their protection under the Thirteenth Amendment.

PETA spokesperson Lindsay Rajt told the Huffington Post, “ We try to use absolutely every outlet to stick up for animals ,” adding that “ We are careful about what we do and wouldn ’ t use nudity or some of our flashier tactics if we didn't know they worked .” PETA also used nudity in its " Veggie Love " ad which it prepared for the Super Bowl only to have it banned by the network.

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.

During the trial, Daphna Nachminovitch, the supervisor of PETA's Community Animal Project, said PETA began euthanizing animals in some rural North Carolina shelters after it found the shelters killing animals in ways PETA considered inhumane.

She also stated that the dumping of animals did not follow PETA policy.

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 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.

PETA argues that it would have been better for animals had the institution of breeding them as " pets " never emerged, that the desire to own and receive love from animals is selfish, and that their breeding, sale, and purchase can cause immeasurable suffering.

PETA argues that conservation personalities, such as Steve Irwin, place animals under stress.

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.

Benetton has since agreed to buy nonmulesed wool and has further urged the wool industry to adopt the PETA and Australian Wool Growers Association agreement to end mulesing.

In June 2006, at the request of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, Ocean Spray agreed to end its support for animal experiments.

The first package was picked up by a PETA employee, Maria Blanton, and the second intercepted by the authorities, who identified the handwriting as Coronado's.

Jason Baker, a former staff member of PETA who was involved in setting up PETA India and PETA Australia, is PETA Asia Pacific's first director.

Francione writes that PETA initially set up independent chapters around the United States, but closed them in favor of a top-down, centralized organization, which not only consolidated decision-making power, but centralized donations too.

In 2010, Mosley teamed up with PETA to protest dog fighting and to protest the seal fur trade in Canada.

PETA has suggested that robotic animals can help people recognize that they are not up to the commitment of caring for a real animal.

PETA set up the visit after Barker heard from Florida congressman Bill Young, whose wife had been " appalled " by what she saw.

" Kill " also shows up in location names as in the Catskill Mountains and the town of Fishkill, New York, which was the subject of an etymologically naïve campaign by animal rights group, PETA, which wanted a more animal friendly name.

Stan explains his trouble to a member of PETA who tells him that an election " is always between a douche and a turd ", because they are the only people who suck up enough to make it that far in politics.

However, he later assisted the PETA militia set up by the Japanese occupiers by carrying messages, but did not actually become a member.

The donated drumsticks were up for auction with proceeds helping PETA make Kentucky Fried Chicken face the music and eliminate the worst abuses that chickens endure on factory farms.

After a Todd Beamer High School student followed up a campaign promise by swallowing a live goldfish, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) criticised the school.