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6 PETA

People have different motivations for eating a vegetarian diet. For many people, it’s a
health issue. They need to reduce their weight, bring down their blood pressure and
cholesterol, manage their blood sugars. A vegetarian diet helps them do this.

For others, it’s also moral and ethical decision not to eat animal products. Through the
centuries, we’ve become accustomed to thinking of man as superior to all other animals
on the planet. We use animals for food, clothing, shoes, belts or other accessories. We use
them for scientific experiments. We discount their place on the earth and consider that
animals are here to serve us and our needs.

PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and is an organization
devoted to changing that mindset among humans. They are against using animals for food
or for clothing, especially for what they consider the needless or particularly inhumane
use of animals, such as killing or trapping them for their fur.

They are passionate about their cause. In their own words, 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; therefore, they are not ours to use—for food, clothing,
entertainment, experimentation, or any other reason.

We are supposedly an evolved society. But how evolved can a society be that thrives on
the suffering of animals? In his excellent book, When Elephants Weep, author Jeffrey
Masson explores the emotional lives of animals and presents compelling evidence for it.
As a species, we must begin to re-evaluate our place on this earth and where we fit in
relation to every other creature that inhabits it. PETA believes this as well and is a
passionate advocate for the rights of animals.

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