PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)

People For the Ethical Treatment of Animal (often abbreviated as PETA) is a 501(c)(3)https://www.peta.org/about-peta/learn-about-peta/financial-report/ international non-profit animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia with entities worldwide. PETA is the largest animal rights organization with over 9 million members,https://www.peta.org/about-peta/ as well as the largest YouTube channel actively promoting animal rights.
==History==
PETA was founded by Ingrid Newkirk (born: ),https://www.peta.org.uk/blog/ingrid-newkirk-turns-70-and-is-more-radical-than-ever/ who is it's current president, and Alex Pacheco (born: )https://www.600milliondogs.org/post/when-i-m-sixty-fourhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm2934800/bio on March 22, 1980.https://www.peta.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Augustus_SP05.pdf "On March 22, 1980, PETA was founded. Since that momentous day..."
===YouTube channel history===
Although PETA was created in 1980, their YouTube channel was only created much later. PETA created their YouTube channel on February 7, 2008 and uploaded their first video later that day.
==Criticism==
===Animal Euthanasia===
The most common criticism of PETA is usually regarding the high euthanasia rate of animals in their shelters, many critics consider it hypocritical that PETA regularly euthanizes a very large amount of dog and cats in their shelters every year. For example PETA took in 1,605 cats in 2014 and killed 1,536 of them (a kill rate of 96%).https://www.nathanwinograd.com/the-death-cult-of-peta/ PETA regularly criticizes and opposes no-kill shelthers and the no-kill movement.https://www.peta.org/about-peta/why-peta/no-kill-shelters/https://www.peta.org/living/animal-companions/nathan-winograds-redemption-kill-clue/https://www.peta.org/features/deadly-consequences-no-kill-policies/
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