What are PETA's accomplishments to date?!
http://www.peta.org/about/victories.as...
On the right side of the page, click on the topic to see all the victories/accomplishments for that particular issue.
Here are just a few:
-Got POM, Welch’s, Ocean Spray, Pepsi, and Coca Cola to stop testing on animals
-Got Denny's, Lukoil, Mastercard, Visa, and Sears (among others) to stop sponsoring the animal-abusing Ringling Bros. circus.
-Convinced Mobil, Texaco, Pennzoil, Shell, and other oil companies to cover their exhaust stacks after showing how millions of birds and bats had become trapped in the shafts and were burned to death.
-Got the General Motors Corporation to stop using animals in its crash tests.
-Convinced 40 companies, including Adidas-Salamon, Gap Inc., Eddie Bauer, Nike, and Reebok, to refuse to use Indian leather in their products after PETA's investigation revealed horrific abuses
-Convinced Ann Taylor, Polo Ralph Lauren, Wet Seal, and many other companies to stop using fur
-Got Abercrombie and Fitch, American Eagle, Timberland, and many others to stop using merino wool
-Got Target and Giant Eagle to stop selling foie gras
-Got Raley's Grocery Store to stop selling live lobsters
-Got Duane Read, CVS, Rite Aid, Safeway, and Albertsons to stop selling cruel glue mice traps
-Got PETCO to stop selling large birds
-Countless perpetrators of cruelty to animals have been prosecuted after PETA wrote to law enforcement officials
Edit:
I only included some of the main victories. PETA has done so much in the last 20-something years that obviously I couldn’t provide a full account of their accomplishments. Everything costs money.... staff salaries, hiring outside consultants, materials/supplies (videocameras to record abuse, materials to build dog houses for dogs forced to live outside, really expensive printing costs for literature and posters, etc.), placing their public service annoucements on TV, travel for major protests or meeting with company executives, maintaining websites, creating high-quality videos of undercover investigations, databases to keep track of media outlets and grassroots activists, legal fees, etc.
I’m not an expert on PETA’s finances. Their website says: “We strive to use our funds in the most cost-effective and efficient manner possible, a commitment illustrated by the fact that 84.99 percent of our operating expenses went directly to our programs fighting animal exploitation. We expended only 10.83 percent on fundraising efforts that drive our operations and 4.18 percent on management and general operations.”
http://www.peta.org/about/numbers.asp
PETA does not run an animal shelter; it refers most adoptable animals to well-known shelters with a high rate of public traffic. Most of the animals it accepts are injured, elderly, aggressive, or otherwise unadoptable. PETA serves as a "shelter of last resort," offering a humane death to those who would otherwise suffer a slow and painful end.
Many of the animals PETA takes in are brought to the organization because they have been rejected by other facilities. PETA says it receives calls every week from people requesting that the organization euthanize their animals because they cannot afford to have them euthanized by a vet or because the animals would suffer excessive stress and pain if transported. PETA has decided that it just wont turn its back on these animals - even though it makes the organization's "numbers" look bad.
One thing to keep in mind: There are 6-8 million unwanted animals abandoned at animal shelters each year in the U.S. Every year, 3 to 4 million of these must be euthanized because there are no suitable homes for them. Believe me, PETA and just about every open-admission shelter in the country would love it if there were no more breeders, pet shops, or people who refuse to spay or neuter their pets. Then there wouldn't be such an overwhelming overpopulation crisis. All the animal shelters in the country only have so much space. What do you suggest that we do with the millions of unwanted animals who have no homes? Put them out on the street and let them get hit by a car, get tortured by teenagers, die slowly from untreated medical problems?
To answer your last question:
I can’t say for sure whether all of the things above were 100% due to PETA. But in some cases, just hours after PETA posts an alert on its website, a company agrees to become more animal friendly. For instance:
“On January 22, 2008, just hours after PETA launched a campaign urging our compassionate members and supporters to contact Lukoil, the company called PETA and stated that it would no longer hold any events with Ringling and would not partner with or sponsor the circus in the future.”
Sure, some companies probably stop selling fur just because it's not profitable. But many companies are very resistant and won’t give in until a full-blown PETA campaign is affecting them. News articles often confirm that after negotiations with PETA, a company has agreed to become more animal friendly. If you’re asking whether I have documentation that the thousands of accomplishments to date were 100% due to PETA’s influence, the answer is no....sorry.You could contact PETA directly if you’re interested in a particular victory, and they could send you the confirmation letter they received from the company.
Wow - sorry for the long response. I hope this addresses your questions.
Answers: You can see PETA's accomplishments here:
http://www.peta.org/about/victories.as...
On the right side of the page, click on the topic to see all the victories/accomplishments for that particular issue.
Here are just a few:
-Got POM, Welch’s, Ocean Spray, Pepsi, and Coca Cola to stop testing on animals
-Got Denny's, Lukoil, Mastercard, Visa, and Sears (among others) to stop sponsoring the animal-abusing Ringling Bros. circus.
-Convinced Mobil, Texaco, Pennzoil, Shell, and other oil companies to cover their exhaust stacks after showing how millions of birds and bats had become trapped in the shafts and were burned to death.
-Got the General Motors Corporation to stop using animals in its crash tests.
-Convinced 40 companies, including Adidas-Salamon, Gap Inc., Eddie Bauer, Nike, and Reebok, to refuse to use Indian leather in their products after PETA's investigation revealed horrific abuses
-Convinced Ann Taylor, Polo Ralph Lauren, Wet Seal, and many other companies to stop using fur
-Got Abercrombie and Fitch, American Eagle, Timberland, and many others to stop using merino wool
-Got Target and Giant Eagle to stop selling foie gras
-Got Raley's Grocery Store to stop selling live lobsters
-Got Duane Read, CVS, Rite Aid, Safeway, and Albertsons to stop selling cruel glue mice traps
-Got PETCO to stop selling large birds
-Countless perpetrators of cruelty to animals have been prosecuted after PETA wrote to law enforcement officials
Edit:
I only included some of the main victories. PETA has done so much in the last 20-something years that obviously I couldn’t provide a full account of their accomplishments. Everything costs money.... staff salaries, hiring outside consultants, materials/supplies (videocameras to record abuse, materials to build dog houses for dogs forced to live outside, really expensive printing costs for literature and posters, etc.), placing their public service annoucements on TV, travel for major protests or meeting with company executives, maintaining websites, creating high-quality videos of undercover investigations, databases to keep track of media outlets and grassroots activists, legal fees, etc.
I’m not an expert on PETA’s finances. Their website says: “We strive to use our funds in the most cost-effective and efficient manner possible, a commitment illustrated by the fact that 84.99 percent of our operating expenses went directly to our programs fighting animal exploitation. We expended only 10.83 percent on fundraising efforts that drive our operations and 4.18 percent on management and general operations.”
http://www.peta.org/about/numbers.asp
PETA does not run an animal shelter; it refers most adoptable animals to well-known shelters with a high rate of public traffic. Most of the animals it accepts are injured, elderly, aggressive, or otherwise unadoptable. PETA serves as a "shelter of last resort," offering a humane death to those who would otherwise suffer a slow and painful end.
Many of the animals PETA takes in are brought to the organization because they have been rejected by other facilities. PETA says it receives calls every week from people requesting that the organization euthanize their animals because they cannot afford to have them euthanized by a vet or because the animals would suffer excessive stress and pain if transported. PETA has decided that it just wont turn its back on these animals - even though it makes the organization's "numbers" look bad.
One thing to keep in mind: There are 6-8 million unwanted animals abandoned at animal shelters each year in the U.S. Every year, 3 to 4 million of these must be euthanized because there are no suitable homes for them. Believe me, PETA and just about every open-admission shelter in the country would love it if there were no more breeders, pet shops, or people who refuse to spay or neuter their pets. Then there wouldn't be such an overwhelming overpopulation crisis. All the animal shelters in the country only have so much space. What do you suggest that we do with the millions of unwanted animals who have no homes? Put them out on the street and let them get hit by a car, get tortured by teenagers, die slowly from untreated medical problems?
To answer your last question:
I can’t say for sure whether all of the things above were 100% due to PETA. But in some cases, just hours after PETA posts an alert on its website, a company agrees to become more animal friendly. For instance:
“On January 22, 2008, just hours after PETA launched a campaign urging our compassionate members and supporters to contact Lukoil, the company called PETA and stated that it would no longer hold any events with Ringling and would not partner with or sponsor the circus in the future.”
Sure, some companies probably stop selling fur just because it's not profitable. But many companies are very resistant and won’t give in until a full-blown PETA campaign is affecting them. News articles often confirm that after negotiations with PETA, a company has agreed to become more animal friendly. If you’re asking whether I have documentation that the thousands of accomplishments to date were 100% due to PETA’s influence, the answer is no....sorry.You could contact PETA directly if you’re interested in a particular victory, and they could send you the confirmation letter they received from the company.
Wow - sorry for the long response. I hope this addresses your questions.
I believe that would be lying to the public
Go to www.thetruthaboutpeta.com. It is interesting
Well, In Maine, they protested a Lobster Festival and the next year the festival "doubled" their sales of Lobster, thanks to the publicity they caused by walking around in Lobster suits.
What idiots!..........I went and enjoyed the lobster also.
I dislike PETA.
They've done a lot, but nowhere near what they should have done for all the money that they burn.
PeTA is a money pit. The more money an org has, the less efficient they are at using it. They then want more and more but don't hold themselves accountable for where it all goes.
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You can't be sure, when PeTA sets a target, its members can cause quite a disturbance, especially in an office that they have acquired phone numbers to.
Thank Karen!
I'm not working or PETA, but I follow up their progress. PETA is a non-profitable, non-religious organization operated by people like you and me, lol. If you are smart enough, you could contribute and improve them. It's a great honor for world came to know PETA (and other similar hosts) some craps about "vegetarianism". Today the world is taking about the stupid diet ethics because the impact from few organizations like PETA, and it's popularity is more "unfavorable" among meat eating majority than ethical vegetarians..
Humans—who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals—have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them— without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. Without realizing, maters and typical end-users’ outcry is much louder now towards PETA. We can hear people outcry as "propaganda" as well. Sorry, but whether you like it or not, it's a great success for pulling you down here to discuss!