" A spokesperson for the Virginia Department of Agriculture responded that " PETA will basically take anything that comes through the door, and other shelters won't do that ," and that it had considered changing PETA's status from " shelter " to " euthanasia clinic.

Hormel spokeswoman Julie Henderson Craven, who responded to the PETA video, called the videotaped abuses " completely unacceptable.

" PETA responded, saying Grassley is apparently " anxious to show his campaign contributors that he will fight to the death ( literally, perhaps ) over Americans ' right to be sick and fat.

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has responded " If you are in the business of putting veal or beef on the tables of America, and slaughtering more than a million animals per hour, and making an awful lot of money at it, you are going to try to neutralize PETA or other animal-rights groups "

PCRM responded that, " If you are in the business of putting veal or beef on the tables of America, and slaughtering more than a million animals per hour, and making an awful lot of money at it, you are going to try to neutralize PETA or other animal-rights groups.

In October 2004, American fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. responded to pressure from PETA to boycott Australian merino wool due in part to the use of mulesing in Australia.

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.

Newkirk's view is that PETA has a duty to be " press sluts ".

PETA was further criticized in 2005 by United States Senator Jim Inhofe for having given grants several years earlier to Animal Liberation Front ( ALF ) and Earth Liberation Front ( ELF ) activists, two groups that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified as agents of domestic terrorism.

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 has also objected to the practice of mulesing ( removing strips of wool-bearing skin from around the buttocks of a sheep ).

PETA has been criticized for aiming its message at children.

PETA has also produced various Flash games showcasing their campaigns, including parodies of Cooking Mama, Super Mario Bros., and Super Meat Boy.

PETA has promoted legal initiatives to enforce existing euthanasia laws.

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.

According to Liddick, PETA has substantial links with Native American ALF activist Rod Coronado.

The organization has also used the PETA Lettuce Ladies in local demonstrations.

PETA Asia-Pacific has been involved in several undercover investigations of fur farms in China.

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.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) has stated that burrs and other irritants are at times placed under the flank strap and that improperly used flank straps can cause open wounds and burns if the hair is rubbed off and the skin is chafed raw.

She has posed for anti-fur advertisements by PETA.

Avian contraception has the support of a range of animal welfare groups including the Humane Society of the United States ( HSUS ), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( ASPCA ) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ).

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

Advocacy group PETA has offered a $ 1 million prize to the first company that can bring lab-grown chicken meat to consumers by 2012.

Blair has become an animal rights activist and humanitarian, working with PETA, Feed The Children, Variety, the Children's Charity and other organizations.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

PETA Asia-Pacific promotes vegetarian and vegan diets through three specific campaigns: education about the benefits of a vegetarian diet, demonstrations and celebrity involvement against fast food outlets, and undercover investigations of animals used for live transport and traditional religious slaughter.

Notable cases include the 26-minute film PETA produced in 1984, Unnecessary Fuss, based on 60 hours of researchers ' footage obtained by the ALF during a raid on the University of Pennsylvania's head injury clinic.

Organizations that have been accused of eco-terrorism in the United States include the Animal Liberation Front ( ALF ), the Earth Liberation Front ( ELF ), Greenpeace, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ), Earth First !.

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.

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?

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.