Peta

Peta

PETA

Kassie White–Simmons

U.S. Government – POL 110

Instructor, Dr. McCue

December 3, 2012

Strayer University



PETA

Define an interest group, with examples.

The interest group that I will discuss in this paper is the one of the most well–known animal rights groups in the world; People for the ethical treatment of animals, commonly known as, PETA. Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first caught the public's attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. The group first came to ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...Newkirk told Salon in 2001 that PETA works toward the ideal, but tries in the meantime to provide carrot–and–stick incentives. There has also been criticism from feminists within the movement about the use of scantily clad women in PETA's anti–fur campaigns, and criticism in general that the group's media stunts trivialize animal rights. Newkirk's view is that PETA has a duty to be "press sluts".

Outside the movement, the confrontational nature of PETA's campaigns has caused concern, as has the estimated 85% of animals it euthanizes. 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 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, (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, 2010). For PETA, the only permissible skin to show is human. Partially clad members of the organization participated in a protest alongside Clendenin

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