I, the undersigned, urge the United States Treasury Department to cancel the tax-exempt status currently extended to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and its affiliated organizations under Section 501(c) of the U.S. Treasury Code. Many humans call themselves an animal’s “owner” and refer to the animal as “it,” as if he or she were an inanimate object like a table or a chair. It’s speciesist to exploit others because we don’t understand them fully or at all, to assume that they’re not as intelligent as we are when we measure their intelligence in human terms, and to dismiss their suffering because it benefits us. Follow us and get the latest news on PETA. Like millions of other nonprofit groups, PETA pays no federal taxes on its income. . Your browser does not support the audio element. Despite its warm-and-fuzzy public image, PETA has donated over $150,000 to criminal activists — including those jailed for arson, burglary, and even attempted murder. Sign our petition and tell the IRS to cancel PETA's status as a tax-exempt animal shelter. Most humans wouldn’t dream of keeping their dog in a cramped, crowded warehouse on a slab of filthy concrete, which is the way pigs are treated in the food industry—even though pigs are able to experience the same pain, joy, fear, and misery that dogs can. “Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. Working to end speciesism means considering the impact of your actions and words on animals in your everyday life and working to eliminate any harm to them. It’s speciesist to believe that the differences between humans and other animals are enough to warrant torturing and killing those we don’t relate to. Stay up to date on the latest vegan trends and get breaking animal rights news delivered straight to your inbox! Researchers could have instead pursued safe and effective human studies, which would yield human-relevant results. “PETA is urging the USDA to cut wasteful spending on misguided animal tests and instead require agricultural commodity boards to use superior, non-animal research methods.”.

I’m helping #EndSpeciesism by being vegan. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE, — Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind.

PETA should not enjoy tax-exempt status similar to that of universities, houses of worship, and legitimate social service and educational organizations. By submitting this form, you are agreeing to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal info in accordance with our privacy policy as well as to receiving e-mails from us. PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. This toxic view also leads humans to draw groundless distinctions between animal species based on the worth of those animals to them. “Forcing American farmers to pay what amounts to a draconian ‘tax’ to fund barbaric, lethal animal experiments for marketing agricultural products is cruel and doesn’t advance human health,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. They fed genetically modified mice who were prone to cystic fibrosis a soy ingredient or a laxative and then killed and dissected them. U.S. mobile users only. It’s speciesist to think that we are superior and are therefore somehow justified in raping, caging, and mutilating animals who don’t look exactly like us. Share Tweet Donate. ... you agree to receive automated texts and calls from PETA and accept our terms and conditions. Group Urges Agency to Stop Tests by Missouri-Based United Soybean Board and Others, Which Poison Starve, and Kill Thousands of Animals. Rats willingly put themselves in harm’s way to save others. Speciesism—like sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination—is an oppressive belief system in which those with power draw boundaries to justify using or excluding their fellow beings who are less powerful. They should not have a Non Profit License. Want proof? Animals are often referred to as property. PETA to USDA: End Draconian ‘Tax’ on Farmers for Missouri-Based United Soybean Board. Many people judge other cultures for eating dogs or poaching wildlife while willfully turning a blind eye to their own cruel habits—as if eating other animals or hunting deer were any different. Message and data rates may apply. PETA is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation. By signing my name, I pledge to consider animals' role in what I buy, eat, wear, and do and to reject anything that causes them harm. Show your support via Twitter and Instagram by posting some of the following messages or creating your own using the hashtag #EndSpeciesism: I want to help end speciesism by pledging to recognize that animals are not ours to use or abuse and that all living, feeling beings deserve to be treated with respect and compassion. Forty-nine animals died from the disease before experimenters were able to kill them.

After discussions with PETA, dozens of major food and beverage manufacturers—including PepsiCo, the Kellogg Company, and Barilla—have established policies against animal testing. Please check the settings and shortcode attributes.

Consider these examples: We know now that animals can all reason, they all have forms of communication, they figure things out that we can only wonder at, and they certainly suffer greatly at human hands. From childhood, most humans are conditioned to view certain species as worthy of care and compassion and others as less important or unworthy—based on arbitrary human preferences. Addressing speciesism and acknowledging other animals’ rights can be as simple as respecting their needs or leaving them in peace. Whether we have feathers or fur, skin or scales, we’re all able to experience complex feelings such as love, sadness, pain, and joy and we all have a will to live—these things are not unique to humans.

It is Time to Put Down PETA Sign the Petition to End PETA's Status as an Animal Shelter Shockingly, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is classified by the Commonwealth of Virginia as a legal animal shelter despite killing 93.8 percent of the dogs and cats it took in last year, according to filings with the state. Many orcas stay with their families for life in the oceans. A human supremacist line of “reasoning” is used to defend treating other living, feeling beings like research tools, fabric, toys, or even food ingredients—even though they share our capacity for pain, hunger, fear, thirst, love, joy, and loneliness and have as much interest in freedom and staying alive as humans do. Nonhuman animals are not objects that belong to us—they’re individuals with their own interests, just like us. Keep reading. PETA killed 1,500 cats and dogs in 2019, and more than 40,000 animals since 1998. Some people wear coats trimmed with fur from coyotes or stuffed with feathers pulled from a screaming goose, but most of them would never consider tearing fistfuls of fur out of a crying kitten’s back with their own hands. 3. Donate to Peta Kills Animals so that we may continue to expose the lies about this deceptive organization. PETA’s letter notes that many of the 21 agricultural commodity boards, including the USB, are overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and fund these animal experiments. Mother cows will walk for miles to find their stolen babies. I’m helping #EndSpeciesism by giving animals consideration in all that I do. 280 likes. Get texts & occasional phone calls for Action Alerts, local events, & other updates to help animals with PETA! Subject: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Please add me to the mailing list so I can continue in the fight against PETA. Some of the USB’s sponsored animal tests include the following: These tests on animals are neither relevant to humans nor required by law. Consider the following examples: Bottom line: Because of speciesism, we learn to ignore our own conscience, which tells us that it’s wrong to mistreat others. Listen to PETA's campaign director Bruce Friedrich encourage activists to commit arson against restaurants, medical laboratories, and banks. This payment form is invalid. St. Louis – This morning, PETA sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue urging him to prohibit what amounts to an exorbitant “tax” on farmers, who must pay hundreds of millions in annual fees to agricultural commodity research and promotion boards (known as “checkoffs”).
We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. Experimenters repeatedly force-fed genetically modified mice who were prone to diabetes a soy ingredient, injected them with cancer cells, starved them for 15 hours, injected them with glucose and insulin, repeatedly took their blood, and then suffocated and dissected them. PETA points out that these agricultural products—including blueberries, mushrooms, and watermelons—are commonplace foods with a long history of safe human consumption. More than 2,600 mice, rats, and pigs were used in tests funded by the checkoff programs and published between 2015 and 2019. Since 2000, PETA's rank-and-file have been arrested over 80 times for breaking laws during protests.

For more information, please visit PETA.org or click here. Sign up to receive updates on PETA's actions and learn what you can do to end them. By repeatedly and continuously giving financial support to individuals and organizations devoted to domestic terrorism, PETA has demonstrated that it is incapable of conducting itself in a manner expected of nonprofit groups receiving federal tax subsidies. Fish like physical contact with other fish and often gently rub against one another—in the same way that a cat weaves in and out of your legs. They repeatedly injected a soy ingredient into mice whose ovaries had been removed and then suffocated and dissected them.

In 2001, PETA donated $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front, a criminal organization that the FBI calls “domestic terrorists.”.

The Government Accountability Office reports that in 2016, assessment fees for agricultural commodity producers, handlers, processors, importers, or others totaled over $885 million. PETA is the biggest t****st organization in America. I’m helping #EndSpeciesism by not calling animals “it.”. Group Urges Agency to Stop Tests by Missouri-Based United Soybean Board and Others, Which Poison Starve, and Kill Thousands of Animals . But few of these other groups share PETA’s total disregard for the law.
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