People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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| Founded | March 22, 1980 |
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| Founder | Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco |
| Type | 501(c)(3) |
| Focus | Animal rights |
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Members
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5 million (including supporters) |
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Revenue
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$43 million in 2014 |
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Employees
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389 |
| Slogan | "Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way." |
| Website | peta.org |
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA (/ˈpiːtə/); stylized PeTA) is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. A nonprofit corporation with 300 employees, it claims that it has 3 million members and supporters (5 million in total) and is the largest animal rights group in the world. Its slogan is "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way."
Founded in March 1980, by Newkirk and fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco, the organization first caught the public's attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. The case lasted ten years, involved the only police raid on an animal laboratory in the United States, triggered an amendment in 1985, to that country's Animal Welfare Act, and established PETA as an internationally known organization. Today it focuses on four core issues—opposition to factory farming, fur farming, animal testing, and animals in entertainment. It also campaigns against eating meat, fishing, the killing of animals regarded as pests, the keeping of chained backyard dogs, cock fighting, dog fighting, and bullfighting.
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