Peace and Justice PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is an international nonprofit organization based in Norfolk, Virginia. ... PETA is widely known for their undercover investigations in which many well-known universities, corporations, and organizations have been exposed for their cruel and inhumane experimentations on animals. PETA uncovered and released 70 hours of videotape that graphically displayed "appalling treatment of primates at the University of Pennsylvania head injury laboratory, resulting in government fines and the end of primate use there-(site). ... Thi...

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Animal testing brought about treatments for rabies, smallpox, diabetes, anthrax, rickets, rheumatoid arthritis, whopping cough, and even leprosy. ... Even if there were not any guidelines required for researchers to follow with the treatment of animals used in testing, it is unlikely that any mistreatment would occur. ... They claim that all animals involved in research are abused and treated inhumanely. They believe that those doing the research are more worried about the research and findings than the treatment and welfare of the animals used (McCoy, 1993). ... If it were not for the disc...

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For animal rights activists, like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the answer is no. ... PETAs stance is that any testing is painful, inhumane, and unnecessary when alternatives are available. ... Not to pleasant of a thought, that the pet you love could be taken right from your yard and tortured in this awful inhumane manner. ...

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Or should we face the facts and take responsibility for the inhumane treatment of animals that we so selfishly portray on them every single day? ... The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), are constantly fighting against the cruelty of animals and raising awareness on the pain and suffering millions of humans bestow upon animals daily. ... Not only does PETA use the media to their advantage to put images into peoples minds of the treatment of animals, but they can also create different points of views by grabbing one of our most easily victimized age groups, our youth. ...

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At present, researchers at the California School of Medicine at Davis are infecting rhesus monkeys with simian AIDS to test treatment of the drug AZT (Cowley 52). ... It should be noted that while at times inhumane and cruel, animal testing has proved quite effective in battling diseases that have plagued humankind for years. ... The humane treatment of animals in all of our animal-related endeavors " carefully judging which are necessary and which are not " should be our ultimate goal. ...

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