PETA: People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals

Everything in the world consists of balance. Everyday we must balance what we eat and what we do. In agriculture there is a balance between how much corn is grown and how many soybeans are grown. Without balance the world would be nothing. PETA is creating an imbalance when dealing with animals. PETA is an international organization who says that “animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way” (PETA, 2016). To accomplish their purposes the organization uses many unorthodox methods. In my opinion, PETA’s operations are unethical, contrary to the fact that PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. FFA helps keep the balance by teaching its members how to properly raise animals,

PETA also says that keeping pets is a cruel practice that “causes immeasurable suffering,” while the animals are “restricted to human homes” (PETA, 2016). PETA is classified as an animal shelter, yet it euthanizes 90% of the animals entrusted to its care within the first 24 hours. The organization receives $35,000,000 a year in revenue, yet it does not attempt to adopt many of its animals to loving homes; and as of 2014 PETA had an adoption rate of only 1% (VDA, 2014). FFA has the opposite approach believing that people should nurture and care for their pets. Many FFA members even use caring for their pets as their SAE. PETA supports euthanasia and is against no-kill shelters. While euthanasia is necessary in some cases to end suffering, PETA says that “euthanasia is the most compassionate and dignified way for unwanted animals to leave a world that has no place for them” (PETA, 2016). The animal rights organization also says that no-kill shelters further problems by “turning animals away” (PETA, 2016). I adopted my dog Cupcake from a no-kill shelter six years ago. While we were there, I saw some of the other animals being walked or playing happily and I asked about their permanent residents. The permanent residents included animals that have a mental or physical reason that prevents their adoption, but are loved and cared for at the shelter. I

Can you imagine suffering from a disease or disability, and also having the burden of believing that you caused your own illness? PETA has done that through a campaign that deceitfully has families of children with autism believe they caused the disorder by giving them dairy products. Recently they used a ‘Got Autism?’ campaign that mocked the ‘Got Milk?’ campaign. The study that PETA cites is inadequate due to its age, number of participants, and the failure to properly isolate a single variable, yet they claim that it “isn’t surprising” that dairy products could be linked to autism (PETA, 2016). PETA is not treating people with disabilities fairly and equally. FFA is different, it treats people with disabilities as equals, always making an effort to ensure that all members receive a valuable learning experience, regardless of any handicap. At the 2015 National FFA Convention Amberley Snyder was a keynote speaker at the event. She spoke about how being confined to a wheelchair has not stopped her from continuing to competitively ride her horses, and she compared her disability to other people’s everyday struggles in