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People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is an animal rights organization that was founded in the 1980s by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco. The origination became known during the Silver Spring monkeys case, which was a Supreme Court case over experiments performed on 17 Macaque monkeys in the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland that happened after authorities and animal rights activists had done a search warrant in the building. Although many people believe that PETA isn’t causing any harm when it comes to protecting animals, there are others that believe they’re causing harm when attempting to protect them. The animal rights organization has been known for their controversial and possibly hypocritical tactics …show more content…

After reviewing two months worth of records, they discovered that 245 out of the 290 animals taken in were killed within 24 hours, including ones that were completely healthy and acceptable for adoption. Only 17 were reported to be adopted or in foster homes. The organization is also known for their usually offensive and outrageous advertisements, media campaigns and videos that are against using animal fur and products, eating meat, using animals as entertainment, animal experimentation and dissection . Some cases of these advertisements and campaigns is the banned 2018 Super Bowl advertisement “Go Vegan”,which was one of their many attempts to convince people to become vegans. PETA did another controversial campaign in 2003 called “Holocaust on your plate”,which compared the abuse and treatment of the Jews and many other ‘Subraces’ in concentration camps done by the Nazis during World War II to how animals were treated on farms. The highly offensive campaign was accordingly banned in Germany for being unimportant and common, along with comparing the victims to caged

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