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PETA
People have different motivations for eating a vegetarian
diet. For many people, it’s a health issue. They need to reduce
their weight, bring down their blood pressure and cholesterol,
manage their blood sugars. A vegetarian diet helps them do
this.
For others, it’s also moral and ethical decision not to eat
animal products. Through the centuries, we’ve become accustomed
to thinking of man as superior to all other animals on the
planet. We use animals for food, clothing, shoes, belts or
other accessories. We use them for scientific experiments. We
discount their place on the earth and consider that animals are
here to serve us and our needs.
PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,
and is an organization devoted to changing that mindset among
humans. They are against using animals for food or for
clothing, especially for what they consider the needless or
particularly inhumane use of animals, such as killing or
trapping them for their fur.
They are passionate about their cause. In their own words, PETA
believes that animals have rights and deserve to have their
best interests taken into consideration, regardless of whether
they are useful to humans. Like you, they are capable of
suffering and have an interest in leading their own lives;
therefore, they are not ours to use-for food, clothing,
entertainment, experimentation, or any other reason.
We are supposedly an evolved society. But how evolved can a
society be that thrives on the suffering of animals? In his
excellent book, When Elephants Weep, author Jeffrey Masson
explores the emotional lives of animals and presents compelling
evidence for it. As a species, we must begin to re-evaluate our
place on this earth and where we fit in relation to every other
creature that inhabits it. PETA believes this as well and is a
passionate advocate for the rights of animals.
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