people for the ethical treatment of animals

1. PET
APeople for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals
DONE BY
VINITHA P
MASTER OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY,
IPR AND BIOSAFETY

2. INTRODUCTION
 People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals
 Its motto “ the Animals are not ours to
experiment on, eat, wear, use for
entertainment, or abuse in any other way”.

3. INTRODUCTION
 The PETA is focus on the animal rights and
animals welfare.
 Its head branch is located America
 The group first came to public attention in 1981
during the SILVER SPRING MONKEYS case, a
dispute about experiments conducted by
researcher Edward Taub on 17 macaque monkeys
inside the institute of behavioral research in Silver
Spring, Maryland.

4.  The case led to the first police raid in the
United States Animal laboratory, triggered an
amendment in 1985 to the United States
Animal welfare Act.

5. HISTORY
 It founded on march 22, 1980.
I. Name of the founders :INGRID NEWKIRK
(Ingrid Newkirk was born in England in 1949)
II. ALEX PACHACO

6. HISTORY
 First studying to become a stockbroker, but
after taking some abandoned kittens to an
animal shelter in 1969 and being appalled by
the conditions that she found there, she chose
a career in animal protection instead.
 1969-She became an animal-protection
officer for Montgomery County, Maryland.
 1976 -she was head of the animal disease
control division.

7. HISTORY
 1980- she met Alex Pacheco, He volunteered
at the shelter where she worked,
 Pacheco to join her in forming People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals, at that
point just "five people in a basement," as
Newkirk described it.
 1981-Silver spring monkey case.

8. PHILOSOPHY &ACTIVISM
 PETA is an animal rights organization and, as
such, it rejects speciesism and also opposes
the use and abuse of animals in any way, as
food, clothing, entertainment, or research
subjects.

9.  sends undercover investigators into animal-
research laboratories, farms, and circuses.
 initiates media campaigns against particular
companies or practices, helps to find
sanctuaries for animals formerly used by
circuses and zoos, and initiates lawsuits
against companies that refuse to change their
practices.

10. UNDERCOVER WORK
 PETA sends its staff undercover into
industries and other facilities that use animals
to document the alleged abuse of animals.
Investigators may spend many months as
employees of a facility, making copies of
documents and wearing hidden cameras.

11. PETA ASIA-PACIFIC
 PETA Asia is an Asia-based animal rights
group.
 It have located all over the contries.
 Eg:America, Myanmar, Thailand, Combodia,
Singapore, India, Indonesia, Brunel, vietnam,
philippines.

12. PETA India
 PETA India was founded in 2000 and is based
in Mumbai, India.
 It focuses on issues about animals in
laboratories, the food industry, the leather
trade, and entertainment.
 PETA and NGO, authorized by Animal
Welfare Board of India, participated in a nine-
month investigation of 16 circuses in India.

13. PETA India
 After it was revealed that "animals used in
circuses were subjected to chronic
confinement, physical abuse, and
psychological torment", AWBI(animal welfare
board of india) in 2013 banned registration of
elephants for performance.

14. CONCLUSION
 Mainly the PETA is created for animal welfare
and animal right.
 Its tells a messages for the peoples…that is
 Avoid non-veg foods.
 Don’t kill & abuse the animals.
 Avoid lathers products.
 Love the animals.

15. ANIMAL SKIN
LETHAR PRODUCTS