PETA Campaign Gone Wrong? During the Second World War, the Nazi party, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler tried to kill all the Jews in Europe. The Nazis and their collaborators murdered six million Jewish people, including 1,500,000 children. This terrible period in history is now referred to as the Holocaust. In 2003 PETA launched a campaign called Holocaust on a Plate. In this campaign they compared the slaughter of animals to the horrific holocaust. This campaign is completely wrong. It’s disrespectful to the Jewish community; not showing PETAS normal professionalism and completely changes perspective on PETA as an organization.
Comparing the animals and this horrific event in history is a good idea at all. Abraham Foxman, the U.S. Anti-Defamation League national director and a Holocaust survivor, is one of many members of the American Jewish community who were highly offended by PETA’s campaign. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was actually a strong believer in animal rights. He hated women …show more content…
They have many supporters and followers that think they are an amazing organization and have great goals. Ingrid Newkirk, CEO of PETA, made the decision to release the campaign, and did not address the heated, angry emotions that arose surrounding the images for nearly two years after the campaign’s release in 2003.Consumers of media messages, both in the United States and Germany, also stated the campaign Holocaust on your Plate images greatly affect their view towards PETA and the organization’s main goals. In 2009 the Germanys Supreme Court became involved banning the Holocaust on your plate campaign from the country, they completely disagreed with the campaign and found it quite disrespectful. This campaign was not taken as the many great campaigns PETA has had in the past and that changed many of the minds of their
Comparing the animals and this horrific event in history is a good idea at all. Abraham Foxman, the U.S. Anti-Defamation League national director and a Holocaust survivor, is one of many members of the American Jewish community who were highly offended by PETA’s campaign. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was actually a strong believer in animal rights. He hated women …show more content…
They have many supporters and followers that think they are an amazing organization and have great goals. Ingrid Newkirk, CEO of PETA, made the decision to release the campaign, and did not address the heated, angry emotions that arose surrounding the images for nearly two years after the campaign’s release in 2003.Consumers of media messages, both in the United States and Germany, also stated the campaign Holocaust on your Plate images greatly affect their view towards PETA and the organization’s main goals. In 2009 the Germanys Supreme Court became involved banning the Holocaust on your plate campaign from the country, they completely disagreed with the campaign and found it quite disrespectful. This campaign was not taken as the many great campaigns PETA has had in the past and that changed many of the minds of their