PETA

PETA Foundation

This foundation is a project of PETA president Ingrid Newkirk and the Physicians Committee’s Neal Barnard. In addition to being a money funnel between PETA and other animal-rights groups, the foundation pays the mortgage on PETA’s Norfolk, VA offices.

If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course we’re going to be, as a movement, blowing things up and smashing windows … I think it’s a great way to bring about animal liberation … I think it would be great if all of the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it’s perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them through the windows … Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it. [click here to listen]

Bruce Friedrich, PETA’s vegan campaign coordinator, at the “Animal Rights 2001” conference

I have very conflicted views on everything. I’m a proud member of PETA and I got leather boots on my feet, you know what I’m saying?

Singer Pink’s nuanced support of animal rights, on MTV.com

It may have been ELF, but then, I sometimes get them confused with ALF, the Animal Liberation Front. And then there’s Earth First! and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). There’s a lot of cross-pollination between them, and some people here are probably members of two of those groups, or more.

Santa Cruz Police Lt. Joe Haebe, speculating about those responsible for a crime spree, in the San Francisco Chronicle

The AMA continues to marvel at how effectively a fringe organization of questionable repute continues to hoodwink the media with a series of questionable research that fails to enhance public health. Instead, it serves only to advance the agenda of activist groups interested in perverting medical science. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is an animal ‘rights’ organization, and, despite its title, represents less than .5 percent of the total U.S. physician population. Its founder, Dr. Neal Barnard, is also the scientific advisor to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an organization that supports and speaks for the terrorist organization knows as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF).

from a September, 1992 press release issued by the American Medical Association

The major purpose of [Foundation to Support Animal Protection (FSAP)] appears to be to enable PETA and PCRM to evade public recognition of their relationship, the real extent of their direct mail expenditures, and the real extent and nature of their assets. If FSAP, PETA, and PCRM were seen as a single fundraising unit, as the existence and activities of FSAP indicate they should be …

Animal People News, December 2002

If we really believe that these animals do have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course we’re going to be, as a movement, blowing stuff up and smashing windows. For the record, I don’t do this stuff, but I do advocate it. I think it’s a great way to bring about animal liberation … I think it would be a great thing if all of these fast-food outlets, and these slaughterhouses, and these laboratories, and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it’s perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them through the windows, and everything else along the line. Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it. [click here to listen]

“Animal Rights 2001” convention

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has been described as “by far the most successful radical organization in America.” The key word is radical. PETA seeks “total animal liberation,” according to its president and co-founder, Ingrid Newkirk. That means no meat or dairy, of course; but it also means no aquariums, no circuses, […]

The Accountability Board

Background Launched in late 2022, The Accountability Board is an organization run by two animal liberation extremists that harasses food companies.  TAB’s purported mission is to keep companies accountable to pledges they have made on the kind of meat, eggs, or dairy products they purchase. In practice, its role is to support other activists that […]