PETA

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. aka PETA,  is an organization dedicated to protecting living creatures and assuring they are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.  The folks at PETA are warriors. They don't play nice when dealing with people or businesses that abuse defenseless animals.  Ingrid Newkirk, the leader of PETA, is  very tough. She and her associates don't care if some people are offended by their often hard-hitting strategies for exposing the terrible way animals are mis-treated in our society.

Literally billions of chickens, hogs, and cattle are brought into the world annually, and treated as commodities rather living beings that are just as vulnerable to pain and stress as humans. These creatures are subjected to every kind of abuse as they are raised then slaughtered, with only one thing in mind, maximum profit.  PETA shines a harsh light on the unsavory and largely hidden cultural practices that turn living, feeling creatures into cheeseburgers and McNuggets. Regretably, in our society, children are raised to recognize the food they eat as nothing more than edible tidings one buys at the store. 

PETA is not the only non-profit fighting back against animal abuse, but they are definitely one of the most aggressive. They operate fearlessly.  I admire Ingrid Newkirk and her band of change agents.  They are a force to be reckoned with, and their cause could not be more noble and decent.

Here is a link to the PETA website...

http://www.peta.org/