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PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has said, “When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the knife.” [http://www.peta.org/about/WhyAnimalRights.asp PETA: Why Animal Rights?]</ref>

PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has said, “When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the knife.” [http://www.peta.org/about/WhyAnimalRights.asp PETA: Why Animal Rights?]</ref>

While not proposing a ban on keeping pets, PETA believes:

While not proposing a ban on keeping pets, PETA believes:

:that it would have been in the animals' best interests if the institution of "pet keeping"—i.e., breeding animals to be kept and regarded as "pets"—never existed.<ref>[http://www.peta.org/campaigns/ar-petaonpets.asp Animal Rights Uncompromised: PETA on 'Pets']</ref>

{{Cquote|that it would have been in the animals' best interests if the institution of "pet keeping"—i.e., breeding animals to be kept and regarded as "pets"—never existed.<ref>[http://www.peta.org/campaigns/ar-petaonpets.asp Animal Rights Uncompromised: PETA on 'Pets']</ref>}}

PETA opposes the human ownership of animals as work animals.<ref>On Newkirk's view of Seeing Eye dogs

PETA opposes the human ownership of animals as work animals.<ref>On Newkirk's view of Seeing Eye dogs

"She regards the use of Seeing Eye dogs as an abdication of human responsibility and, because they live as 'servants' and are denied the companionship of other dogs, she is wholly opposed to their use."</ref> It proposes that people stop eating [[meat]]; see [[vegetarianism]].

"She regards the use of Seeing Eye dogs as an abdication of human responsibility and, because they live as 'servants' and are denied the companionship of other dogs, she is wholly opposed to their use."</ref> It proposes that people stop eating [[meat]]; see [[vegetarianism]].

==Activism==

==Activism==

PETA achieves its goals through "public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns,"<ref name="petafaq" /> but they are best known for their provocative advertising and protests. For example, they often use nude women to protest the wearing of fur.<ref>''PETA: Dominique Swain is a Class Act for Animals'', [http://www.peta.org/feat/swain/] (contains risque image)</ref> They have also had controversial public education campaigns, including comparing [[Jewish]] ritual slaughter to the [[Holocaust]].<ref>[http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=3021 PETA'S "HOLOCAUST ON YOUR PLATE" NATIONAL TOUR COMES TO NEW YORK], PETA Media Center, October 9, 2003</ref><ref>[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43035 PETA's dirty war against Jewish ritual slaughter], Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, [[WorldNetDaily]], February 25, 2005</ref> "On May 5, 2005, however, PETA issued an apology for its "Holocaust on Your Plate" exhibit, which traveled to more than 100 American and foreign cities. The exhibit compared the treatment of farm animals to the victims of the Nazi concentration camps. PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said she realized that the campaign had caused pain: 'This was never our intention, and we are deeply sorry.'" <ref>[http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/holocaust_imagery.asp Holocaust Imagery and Animal Rights], [[Anti-Defamation League]], August 2, 2005</ref> In addition, PETA members have camped out in front of public schools and handed out [[propaganda]] "comic books" entitled "Your Mommy Kills Animals" to children as young as '''six years old''' in their attempt to manipulate children into blindly believing their lies.<ref>[http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/h/2537-peta-denies-traumatizing-kids ConsumerFreedom.com]</ref>

PETA claims to achieve its goals through "public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns,"<ref name="petafaq" /> but they are best known for their provocative advertising and protests. For example, they often use nude women to protest the wearing of fur.<ref>''PETA: Dominique Swain is a Class Act for Animals'', [http://www.peta.org/feat/swain/] (contains risque image)</ref> They have also had controversial public education campaigns, including mocking [[Holocaust]] victims and survivors by comparing them to broiler chickens.<ref>[http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=3021 PETA'S "HOLOCAUST ON YOUR PLATE" NATIONAL TOUR COMES TO NEW YORK], PETA Media Center, October 9, 2003</ref><ref>[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43035 PETA's dirty war against Jewish ritual slaughter], Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, [[WorldNetDaily]], February 25, 2005</ref> "On May 5, 2005, however, PETA issued an apology for its "Holocaust on Your Plate" exhibit, which traveled to more than 100 American and foreign cities. The exhibit attempted to evoke sympathy for farm animals to the victims of the [[Nazi]] [[concentration camp]]s. PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said she realized that the campaign had caused pain: 'This was never our intention, and we are deeply sorry.'" <ref>[http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/holocaust_imagery.asp Holocaust Imagery and Animal Rights], [[Anti-Defamation League]], August 2, 2005</ref>  

 

PETA claims [[milk]] from cows is a "symbol of [[white supremacy]],"<ref>Cheong, Ian Miles (March 31, 2017). [https://heatst.com/culture-wars/peta-says-milk-is-a-symbol-of-white-supremacy/ PETA Says Milk is a ‘Symbol of White Supremacy’]. ''heatst.com''. Retrieved April 1, 2017.</ref> and have camped out in front of [[public school]]s to hand out [[propaganda]] "comic books" entitled "Your Mommy Kills Animals" to children as young as six years old in their attempt to indoctrinate children with [[cultural Marxism]].<ref>[http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/h/2537-peta-denies-traumatizing-kids ConsumerFreedom.com]</ref>

Many prominent celebrities support PETA, such as [[Bill Maher]], [[Richard Gere]], [[Alec Baldwin]] and [[Paul McCartney]].

Many prominent celebrities support PETA, such as [[Bill Maher]], [[Richard Gere]], [[Alec Baldwin]] and [[Paul McCartney]].

PETA often shows that for them, animals have more worth than humans. After "[[Palestinian]]" terrorists have detonated a bomb-laden donkey next to a bus with Israelis, PETA's chairman Ingrid Newkirk wrote a letter to [[Yassir Arafat]], in which they ask him to leave the animals out of this conflict. Newkirk does not criticize the murdering of people. She said: "It’s not my business to inject myself into human wars."<ref>http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9997</ref>

PETA often shows that for them, animals have more worth than humans. After "[[Palestinian]]" terrorists have detonated a bomb-laden donkey next to a bus with Israelis, PETA's chairman Ingrid Newkirk wrote a letter to [[Yassir Arafat]], in which they ask him to leave the animals out of this conflict. Newkirk does not criticize the murdering of people. She said: "It’s not my business to inject myself into human wars."<ref>http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9997</ref>

==Further reading==

==Further reading==