{"id":35719,"date":"2025-04-18T10:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=35719"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:16:54","slug":"people-for-the-ethical-treatment-of-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/people-for-the-ethical-treatment-of-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s recent policy changes to end animal testing are garnering support from animal rights groups like PETA.<\/p>\n<h2>About People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a<strong> nongovernmental organization<\/strong> (NGO) committed to <strong>ending abusive treatment of animals <\/strong>in business and society and promoting consideration of animal interests in everyday decision-making and general policies and practices.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>largest animal rights organization <\/strong>in the world.<\/li>\n<li>It is based in<strong> Norfolk, Virginia, United States<\/strong>, with entities worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>PETA was <strong>founded in 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco,<\/strong> who were influenced by Australian ethicist Peter Singer\u2019s book Animal Liberation (1975).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Initially recognized for exposing cruelty in research laboratories, PETA has grown into a global entity with<strong> over nine million members<\/strong> and considerable annual expenditures.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>PETA <strong>opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview,<\/strong> and f<strong>ocuses on the four areas <\/strong>in which the <strong>largest numbers of animals suffer the most<\/strong> intensely for the longest periods of time: in <strong>laboratories<\/strong>, in the <strong>food industry,<\/strong> in the <strong>clothing trade<\/strong>, and in the <strong>entertainment business.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>PETA also works on a variety of <strong>other issues,<\/strong> including the<strong> cruel killing of rodents, birds,<\/strong> and other <strong>animals who are often considered \u201cpests<\/strong>\u201d and <strong>cruelty to domesticated animals.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>PETA <strong>works through public education, investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation<\/strong>, protests, and <strong>negotiations <\/strong>with companies and regulatory agencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/us-news\/why-peta-animal-rights-group-suddenly-praising-trump-administration-101744692802978.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA, the world&#8217;s largest animal rights group, fights for the ethical treatment of animals through campaigns, education, and cruelty-free initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":35720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[174,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-35719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-people-for-the-ethical-treatment-of-animals","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}