The New Yorker writes that PETA activists have crawled through the streets of Paris wearing leg-hold traps and thrown around money soaked in fake blood at the International Fur Fair.

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.

Liddick also writes that PETA gave Coronado $ 45, 000 for his legal bills and another $ 25, 000 to his father.

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.

Specter writes that she has the popular image of a monster, becoming more disliked with every PETA stunt, unable even to walk through an airport without accosting every woman wearing fur.

The fast food industry is a popular target for critics, from anti-globalization activists like José Bové to vegetarian activist groups such as PETA.

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.

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.

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

PETA distributed images of the monkeys with the caption, " This is vivisection.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In October 2003, animal rights group PETA urged the town to change its name because it invokes images of the sport of rodeo, which they claim is harmful to animals.

Jones is a supporter of PETA.

PETA ( People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ) is also the scene of a running battle with PETCO, a pet food retailer in San Diego, for several years regarding the purported mistreatment of live animals at PETCO stores.

When the San Diego Padres announced that PETCO ( which is based in San Diego ) had obtained naming rights to PETCO Park, PETA was unable to persuade them to terminate the agreement.

However, there are some animal rights groups, such as PETA, which support animal welfare measures in the short term to alleviate animal suffering until all animal use is ended.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Animal rights groups such as PETA have called for boycotts and encourage the use of alternative materials such as synthetic leathers.

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.

Now, local animal rights donations go to PETA, rather than to a local group.

In 2009, animal rights group PETA released undercover video of alleged abuses of former race horses at a slaughterhouse in Kumamoto, Japan.

In November 2011, animal rights organization PETA petitioned the town to temporarily change its name to " Tofurkey.

In 2008, animal rights organization PETA sent members to work undercover at a pig factory farm in Iowa to investigate allegations of animal rights abuses, then released a video record showing workers treating the pigs cruelly and without regard for animal rights.