PETA, which stands for people for the ethical treatment of animals, promotes animal rights and gives voice to this movement, however most of their advertising is unethical because of the use of false information, overly sexualized women, and content used to scare little kids. For example, imagine that you’re walking down the street with your kids when you see a Thanksgiving ad from PETA. The ad looks fine to you, but your children look petrified. Instead of seeing a mom carving a turkey for her family like you do, they see a mom butchering a live turkey with a maniacal look in her eye and blood splattered everywhere. This is because the advertisement changes appearance if you’re less than 4 feet 3 inches, as noted by Michelle Kretzer in her article “PETA’s Most Attention-Grabbing Efforts to Save Turkeys”. Do you believe advertisements like this are ethical?
In the 1950s and 1960s people started to take an interest in the animal rights movement and it started to gain popularity and impact in society. As noted by Matusitz and Forrester in their paper “The animal rights movement is grounded in the philosophical contemplation of the purpose, nature and value of …show more content…
People should cease to turn a blind eye to injustices suffered by animals and instead get informed and seek action. Fur farming happens, cruel and unusual punishment at factory farms happens, animal abuse happens. Pretending like these things don’t exist doesn’t mean they’re not a reality, which is why PETA feels the need to use propaganda in the first
In the 1950s and 1960s people started to take an interest in the animal rights movement and it started to gain popularity and impact in society. As noted by Matusitz and Forrester in their paper “The animal rights movement is grounded in the philosophical contemplation of the purpose, nature and value of …show more content…
People should cease to turn a blind eye to injustices suffered by animals and instead get informed and seek action. Fur farming happens, cruel and unusual punishment at factory farms happens, animal abuse happens. Pretending like these things don’t exist doesn’t mean they’re not a reality, which is why PETA feels the need to use propaganda in the first