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The Truth Behind PETA
Animal rights groups are known for their love of animals and trying to do everything in their power to give animals rights. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), is one of the most well known and largest animal rights organizations in the world, with over 6.5 million members and supporters. Most people know what PETA’s mission is, to give animals equal rights as humans, but what many don’t know is what really goes on behind closed doors and away from the media’s eyes. PETA has some rather unquestionably gruesome truth about their organization that they try to keep hidden from their moderately populous supporters. Being the largest animal rights group in the world, their mission and campaigning techniques must be comparatively unique. PETA is a nonprofit organization with their mission being “dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of animals. PETA operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.” Their organization claims hunters to be careless and selfish, yet hunters spend $746 million solely …show more content…

Only $17 million goes towards donations to charitable organizations, which no doubt goes toward other nonprofit organization operating costs instead of going directly toward the environment. PETA’s claims towards hunters are incredibly inaccurate as hunters are the conservationists not the other way around. One of PETA’s main goals is to abolish hunting, if they would have their way, who would take care of the many needs of animals for instance, threatened and endangered species? If this were to happen PETA wouldn’t be the ones expanding habitat or preserving wildlife. PETA also claims that the majority of Americans are against hunting. Well, if this is true then who are the 78% of Americans supporting hunting and where do they come from? The fact of the matter is that PETA’s claims are once again false

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