Is Peta a special interest group?

Answer 1

Yes, PETA is a special interest group. They have one main purpose, to support the ethical treatment of animals. They also have a large group of lobbyists working for them to promote the goals of the organization.

Improvement::: YES they are::The Special interest of PETA is urban terorism not animal preservation..PETA to date is responsible for over $50 million dollars in damage to the property of others by promoting urban terrorism,Ingrid Newkirk PETA's President and co-founder is nothing more than an extremist that uses the organization that she helped to create in order to financially support and aid arsonists, violent criminals, and (FBI LISTED) terrorist groups such as the North American Earth Liberation Front. ELF has been called "the largest and most active U.S.-based terrorist group" by the FBI.

PETA has also been a long time supporter of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a violent, underground group of fanatics who plants firebombs in restaurants, destroys butcher shops, and torchs research labs. The FBI considers ALF one of America's most active and prolific terrorist groups, but PETA President Ingrid Newkirk compares it to the Underground Railroad and the French Resistance and to this date PETA continues to hire convicted ALF militants and funds their legal defense. In at least one case, court records show that Ingrid Newkirk herself was involved in an ALF arson.

The FBI calls ALF and ELF the nation's "most serious domestic terrorism threat." Bruce Friedrich, PETA's "vegan campaign director" and third-in-command, didn't seem to care when he addressed the Animal Rights 2001 convention in Virginia, telling a crowd of over 1,000 activists that "blowing stuff up and smashing windows" is "a great way to bring about animal liberation." "It would be great," he added, "if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow."

Since 1998, PETA has opted to "put down" 23,640 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens instead of finding homes for them.

PETA's "Animal Record" report for 2009, filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, shows that the animal rights group killed 97 percent of the dogs and cats in its care last year. During all of 2009, PETA found adoptive homes for just eight pets. Just eight animals -- out of the 2,366 it took in...

"I would go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself. Because I couldn't stand to let them go through other workers abusing the animals. I must have killed thousands of them, sometimes dozens everyday."

-- Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA President, The New Yorker, April 14, 2003

"We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants."

-- Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA President, The Virginian-Pilot, July 20, 2005

PETA special interests are of a political and terroristic agenda....