People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Founded in 1980 as a non-profit organization, it has its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, and a stated 850,000 members and over 100 employees worldwide. Outside the U.S., there are affiliated offices in the UK, [1] India, [2] Germany, [3] Asia, and the Netherlands. [4] There is also peta2 Street Team for high school and college-age activists. [5] Ingrid Newkirk is PETA's international president. PETA focuses on fo ...

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• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Support of extremists and terrorists
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Response to a suicide bombing
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Use of nudity
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Animal cruelty and euthanasia

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - PETA's philosophy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - History, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Campaigns, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Criticism of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - South Park with PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Alleged targeting of vulnerable groups, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Support of extremists and terrorists, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Response to a suicide bombing, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Use of nudity, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Animal cruelty and euthanasia, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - List of famous members and supporters

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The group first came to public attention in the United States in 1981, when it became involved in the Silver Spring, Maryland monkey case. Pacheco conducted an undercover investigation of a primate laboratory, documenting numerous cases of abuse and neglect. The investigation resulted in the first-ever conviction of an animal experimenter on charges of animal abuse and the first-ever suspension of federal research funds for cruelty. [10] Other highlights of the organization's campaigns include: 1983: successfully stopped ...

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - PETA's philosophy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - History, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Campaigns, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Criticism of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - South Park with PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Alleged targeting of vulnerable groups, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Support of extremists and terrorists, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Response to a suicide bombing, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Use of nudity, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Animal cruelty and euthanasia, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - List of famous members and supporters

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The group first came to public attention in the United States in 1981, when it became involved in the Silver Spring, MD monkey case. Pacheco conducted an undercover investigation of a primate laboratory, documenting numerous cases of abuse and neglect. The investigation resulted in the first-ever conviction of an animal experimenter on charges of animal abuse and the first-ever suspension of federal research funds for cruelty. [9] Other highlights of the organization's campaigns include: 1983: successfully stopped a Unite ...

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - PETA's philosophy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - History, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Campaigns, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Criticism of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Targeting of vulnerable groups, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Support of extremists and terrorists, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Response to a suicide bombing, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Use of nudity, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Animal cruelty and euthanasia

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Critics look down on the fact that PETA has financially contributed to so-called "eco-terrorist" groups such as the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). [27] Critics also point to a statement from Alex Pacheco, one of PETA's founders, that "arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are acceptable crimes when used for the animal cause" [28] as a reason that PETA should lose its status as a non-profit organization. [29] Part of the reasoning behind their concern is the degree of financial support given by ...

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - PETA's philosophy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - History, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Campaigns, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Criticism of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - South Park with PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Alleged targeting of vulnerable groups, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Support of extremists and terrorists, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Response to a suicide bombing, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Use of nudity, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - Animal cruelty and euthanasia, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - List of famous members and supporters

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Alex Pacheco is an American animal rights activist, a co-founder and former chairman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). In 1982, shortly after founding PETA, and while still a student at George Washington University, Pacheco took a summer job as a volunteer at the Institute for Biological Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, where Dr. Edward Taub was conducting research into nerve regeneration, and had cut the sensory nerves in monkeys' fingers, hands, arms, and legs, then withheld food or subjected them to ...

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David Barbarash was the North American press officer for the Animal Liberation Front between 2000 and 2003. The ALF press office in the UK is run by Robin Webb. Barbarash was charged in 1998 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with 22 offences in after letters containing razor blades went received by hunting guides and people working in the fur industry. The charges were stayed after the RCMP refused to obey a j ...

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Animal rights, or animal liberation, is the movement to protect animals from being used or regarded as property by human beings. It is a radical social movement, insofar as it aims not merely to attain more humane treatment for animals, but also to include species other than human beings within the moral community by giving their basic interests — for example, the interest in avoiding suffering — the same consideration as our own. The claim, in other words, is that animals should no longer be regarded legally or morally as property, or treated merely as resources for human ...

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• Animal rights - Rights requires moral judgements
• Animal rights - Animal rights can be anti-human
• Animal rights - Animal welfare as a responsiblity
• Animal rights - Analogies to the Nazis
• Animal rights - Other criticisms
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Physical abuse Torture / Severe Corporal punishment Psychological abuse Humiliation / Intimidation / Bullying Hate speech / Manipulation / Stalking / Coercive persuasion Sexual abuse Sexual assault / Rape Sexual harassment Child abuse / Domestic violence Prisoner abuse / Elder abuse Animal abuse Police brutality Human experimentation Cruelty to animals refers to treatment which causes unacceptable suffering or ...

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The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is a name used internationally by animal liberation activists who engage in direct action on behalf of animals, or in protest of the animal testing, vivisection, fur, meat, egg, or dairy industries. Some governmental agencies and private citizens label the ALF "ecoterrorists", while supporters consider them more akin to "freedom fighters". Any non-violent direct action that furthers the cause of animal liberation may be claimed on behalf of the ALF, so long as it is consistent ...

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Barry Horne was a British animal rights activist who died of kidney failure in Ronkswood Hospital, Worcester on November 5, 2001, following a series of four hunger strikes while serving an 18-year sentence for planting incendiary devices. Horne said his aim was to persuade the British government to hold a public inquiry into animal-testing practices in the UK, something the Labour Party had promised to do when it came to power in 1997. At the time of his death at the age of 49, Horne had not eaten for 15 days, but he was alread ...

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Avery started SHAC in November 1999 with his first wife, Heather James, after video footage shot covertly inside HLS by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was aired on British television. [1] Footage shot in the UK showed HLS staff shouting at, shaking, punching, and laughing at the animals. [2] (video); footage shot later in the U.S. appears to show a live and possibly conscious monkey being dissected. [3] (video) Avery was sentenced in 1998 to six months for affray, and 14 days later that year for offences under the Public ...

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Greg Avery, Greg Avery - Early life, Greg Avery - SHAC campaign

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In The Case for Animal Rights, Regan argues that non-human animals are the bearers of moral rights. His philosophy lies broadly within the tradition of Immanuel Kant, though he rejects Kant's idea that respect is due only to rational beings. Regan points out that we routinely ascribe inherent value, and thus the right to be treated with respect, to humans who are not rational, including infants and the severely mentally impaired. The crucial attribute that all humans have in common, he argues, is not rationality, but the fact t ...

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Tom Regan, Tom Regan - Background, Tom Regan - Animal rights, Tom Regan - Works

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Starting in 1995, the Hampshire police under "Operation Washington" began a series of at least 56 raids, which eventually resulted in the August to November 1997 Portsmouth trial of Green Anarchist editors Steven Booth, Saxon Wood, Noel Molland, and Paul Rogers, as well as the ALF UK press officer Robin Webb and Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group newsletter editor Simon Russell. The defendants organised the GANDALF defence campaign. Three of the editors of Green Anarchist — Molland, Saxon Wood and Booth — were jailed for conspiracy to incite. All three were released on appeal. The presidi ...

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GANDALF trial, GANDALF trial - Overview and background

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Webb attracted controversy in 1998 during the 68-day hunger strike of British ALF activist Barry Horne, who stopped eating in protest at the British government's failure to hold a public inquiry into animal testing in the UK, something the Labour Party had indicated it would do before coming to power in 1997. Toward the end of the hunger strike, when it appeared that Horne might die, the Animal Rights Militia (ARM), an extremist group, issued a statement through Webb, threatening to assassinate six unnamed and four named individuals s ...

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Robin Webb, Robin Webb - Controversy

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Coronado is of Pasqua Yaqui heritage and lives in Tucson, Arizona. He has a long history of activism. In 1985, at the age of 19, he joined the crew of the conservation ship, Sea Shepherd, [1] and on November 9, 1986, he and another activist, David Howitt, scuttled two ships, the Hvalur 6 and Hvalur 7, accounting for half of Iceland's whaling fleet, which was whaling in contravention of the International Whaling Commission moratorium. After scuttling the ships, Coronado and Howitt caused $2 million worth ...

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Rod Coronado, Rod Coronado - Background, Rod Coronado - Recent actions, Rod Coronado - Quotes

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Apparently, one of the major influences on Spira was Peter Singer's 1973 work, Animal Liberation. In 1974, Spira founded Animal Rights International (ARI) and in 1976, he led the ARI's campaign against vivisection on cats by the American Museum of Natural History; it was the first such campaign ever to succeed in stopping the experiments. Another famous campaign was targeted at cosmetics giant Revlon's use of the Draize test, which involved the blinding of animals - in this case, rabbits - to determine whether cosmetic products ...

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Henry Spira, Henry Spira - Activism, Henry Spira - External link

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Newkirk herself has written about how she has frequently publicized actions carried out by activists in the name of the Animal Liberation Front (Newkirk 2000). She has been criticized by the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a lobby group funded by the tobacco, alcohol, and meat industries, for being willing to publicize information from the ALF, and for possibly having advance knowledge of an ALF action. According to a letter written in 2005 by David Martosko of CCF to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, M ...

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Ingrid Newkirk, Ingrid Newkirk - Early life, Ingrid Newkirk - Relationship with the ALF, Ingrid Newkirk - Works

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau briefly alludes to the concept of animal rights in the preface of his Discourse on Inequality. He argues that man starts as an animal, though not one "devoid of intellect and freedom" like others; however, as animals are sensitive beings, "they too ought to participate in natural right, and that man is subject to some sort of duties toward them," specifically "one [has] the right not to be uselessly mistreated by the other." One of the first philosophers to take animal liberation seriously was one of the founders ...

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Animal rights, Animal rights - Overview, Animal rights - Animal rights in philosophy, Animal rights - Animal rights in law, Animal rights - Animal rights in practice, Animal rights - Criticism of animal rights, Animal rights - Rights requires moral judgements, Animal rights - Animal rights can be anti-human, Animal rights - Animal welfare as a responsiblity, Animal rights - Analogies to the Nazis, Animal rights - Other criticisms, Animal rights - Quotes

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau briefly alludes to the concept of animal rights in the preface of his Discourse on Inequality. He argues that man starts as an animal, though not one "devoid of intellect and freedom" like others; however, as animals are sensitive beings, "they too ought to participate in natural right, and that man is subject to some sort of duties toward them," specifically "one [has] the right not to be uselessly mistreated by the other." Contemporaneous with Rousseau was the Scottish writer John Oswald (d. 1793). Oswal ...

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Animal rights, Animal rights - Overview, Animal rights - Animal rights in philosophy, Animal rights - Animal rights in law, Animal rights - Animal rights in practice, Animal rights - Criticism of animal rights, Animal rights - Rights requires moral judgements, Animal rights - Animal rights can be anti-human, Animal rights - Animal welfare as a responsiblity, Animal rights - Analogies to the Nazis, Animal rights - Other criticisms, Animal rights - Quotes

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