
PETA refers as “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals”. As it describes it is animal rights organization located in Norfolk,Virginia,United States.PETA was founded on March 22,1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco.PETA belongs to nonprofit corporation with 400 employees.But the members and supporters of PETA are more than 6.5 million members.
PETA became famous because of the Silver Spring Monkeys Case which was carried away by Institute of Behavioral Research in the year 1989. Later PETA started to campaigns for the vegan lifestyle and also against eating meat, fishing, killing animals, Cock Fighting and Bull Fighting.