Word: peta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...animal rights movement," Sharstein's insensitivity further promotes the misunderstandings to which he himself has succumbed. The actions of certain radical groups may be considered deplorable, but this should not be allowed to influence one's judgement of the philosophies and intentions of non-violent groups, such as PETA, which constitute the vast majority of the "movement." The $400 which PETA spent in rescuing lobsters, which Sharfstein suggests could have been used more productively, is less than what many students probably spend in a year for alcohol or in a week for a vacation, yet Sharfstein does not refer...
...PETA considers itself a "non-violent" group. But Burnett clarified that, "If there is no [human] life involved, and if there is just property damage, we can't take a position against it... We don't consider liberating an animal from a lab violent...
...PETA opposes all animal experimentation and suggests the use of human volunteers, instead. If animal experimentation were eliminated and scientific research were hurt as a consequence, the probable increase in human suffering and death would not be a big problem for PETA. "We don't have a right to exploit animals under some notion of 'human good," said Burnett...
...group's leader even explicitly equates animal life with human life. Alex Pacheco, chairman of PETA, was recently quoted as saying, "We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child, because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence upon others...
...after the Armenian earthquake, when the world was flying millions of dollars in medical supplies to the devastated region, PETA spent $400 to fly lobsters from a tank in a Chinese restaurant in Rockville, Maryland to the coast of Maine. The lobsters were "liberated" by being dumped into the ocean...