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    PETA was founded in 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and is dedicated to establishing and defending animal rights. PETA operates under the principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. PETA believes that animals have inherent rights and deserve to have their interests considered, regardless of their usefulness to humans. PETA focuses its efforts on farm animals, laboratory animals, animals used for clothing, and animals in entertainment to reduce their suffering.

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    PETA was founded in 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and is dedicated to establishing and defending animal rights. PETA operates under the principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. PETA believes that animals have inherent rights and deserve to have their interests considered, regardless of their usefulness to humans. PETA focuses its efforts on farm animals, laboratory animals, animals used for clothing, and animals in entertainment to reduce their suffering.

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    PETA was founded in 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and is dedicated to establishing and defending animal rights. PETA operates under the principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment. PETA believes that animals have inherent rights and deserve to have their interests considered, regardless of their usefulness to humans. PETA focuses its efforts on farm animals, laboratory animals, animals used for clothing, and animals in entertainment to reduce their suffering.

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    PETA was founded in 1980 and is dedicated to establishing and defending the rights of all
    animals. PETA operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear,
    experiment on, or use for entertainment. PETA educates policymakers and the public about
    animal abuse and promotes kind treatment of animals. PETA is an international nonprofit
    charitable organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, with affiliates worldwide.

    PETA believes that animals have rights and deserve to have their best interests taken into
    consideration, regardless of whether they are useful to humans. Like you, they are capable of
    suffering and have an interest in leading their own lives.

    The very heart of all of PETA's actions is the idea that it is the right of all beings²human and
    nonhuman alike²to be free from harm. Our world is plagued with many serious problems, all of
    which deserve our attention. Cruelty to animals is one of them. We believe that all people should
    try to stop animal abuse whenever and wherever they can.

    Since 1980, PETA has campaigned to establish a global society in which humans consider the
    needs of what Henry Beston, noted American writer and naturalist of the mid-20th century, so
    beautifully called "the other animal nations." We uphold the rights of individual animals to be
    respected. For most, that means simply leaving them alone.

    PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the
    most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing
    trade, and in the entertainment industry.

    In today's world of virtually unlimited choices, animal exploitation is simply unacceptable. We


    can eat better, educate ourselves better, clothe ourselves better, and entertain ourselves better
    without torturing and killing animals.

    We have the power to spare animals excruciating pain by making better choices about the food
    we eat, the things we buy, and the activities we support.

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    Ingrid E. Newkirk is the cofounder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,
    the largest animal rights organization in the world. She has spoken internationally on animal
    rights issues, from the steps of the Canadian Parliament to the streets of New Delhi, India, where
    she spent her childhood.
    A message from the president:

    Friends,

    I've read some fine and important books in my time, but one book changed my life, and that is
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     . I had grown up appalled by cruelty to animals and firmly believed in treating
    animals kindly, but I still thought it was OK to use them, meaning give them big cages, for
    example, and, if they "have" to be killed, killing them as painlessly as possible.

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     , I realized that in my heart I believed something far deeper than
    that. I believed what Dr. Singer advocated²that we needed a radical new approach, a new way
    of viewing animals. Instead of seeing all the other species on Earth as ours to convert into
    hamburgers, handbags, living burglar alarms, amusements, test tubes with whiskers, and so on,
    we need to respect them as fellow beings, as other individuals and families and tribes who have
    the same basic interests in experiencing joy and love and living without needless pain and
    harassment as we do.

    To me, Dr. Singer's logic was impeccable: If we care about animals, shouldn't we care enough
    about them to leave them in peace? c  
     , more than anything else, gave me the
    impetus to start PETA. I hope you get as much out of it as I did.

    Kind regards,

    Ingrid E. Newkirk, President

    PETA

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