About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 80. Chapters: American Anti-Vivisection Society, Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, Animal Liberation Front, Beauty Without Cruelty, Britches (monkey), British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, Brown Dog affair, Cambridge University primates, Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing, Cruelty-free, Cruelty to Animals Act 1876, Dr. Hadwen Trust, European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing, Frances Power Cobbe, Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments, Great ape research ban, Henry Spira, Henry Stephens Salt, Humane education, Humane Society of the United States, Ingrid Newkirk, Lizzy Lind af Hageby, Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research, Maurice Beddow Bayly, National Anti-Vivisection Alliance, National Anti-Vivisection Society, Neal D. Barnard, OneKind, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Pit of despair, Primate Freedom Project, Save the Hill Grove Cats, Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs, Silver Spring monkeys, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, UCDavis Center for Animal Alternatives, Uncaged Campaigns, Unnecessary Fuss, Western Animal Rights Network. Excerpt: 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. A non-profit corporation with 300 employees and two million members and supporters, it claims to be the largest animal rights group in the world. Its slogan is "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment." 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 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. Since then, in its campaigns and undercover work, it has focused on four core issues opposition to factory farming, fur farming, animal testing, and animals in entertainment though it also campaigns against fishing, the killing of animals regarded as pests, the keeping of chained backyard dogs, cock fighting, dog fighting, and bullfighting. The group has been the focus of criticism from inside and outside the animal rights movement. 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 group, not an animal rights group. Newkirk told Salon in 2001 that PETA works toward the ideal, but tries in the meantime to provide carrot-and-stick incentives. There h
