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I'm reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. As an ex-vegan who has always been skeptical of PETA, I was interested in reading his defense of the organization:
"They are effective. When PETA targeted fast-food companies, the most famous and powerful welfare scientist in the country, Temple Grandin […] said she saw more improvement in welfare in one year that she had seen in her entire thirty-year career previously.[…]They call their revolution 'animal rights' but the changes PETA has won for farm animals[…], while numerous, are not victories for the animals rights so much as animal welfare: fewer animals per cage, better-regulated slaughter, less-cramped transport, and the like. PETA's techniques are often vaudeville-esque (or tasteless), but this over-the-top approach has won modest improvements that most people would say don't go far enough.[…] Ultimately the controversy around PETA may have less to do with the organization than with those who sit in judgment of it - that is, with the unpleasant realization that 'those PETA people' have stood up for values that we have been too cowardly or forgetful to defend ourselves."
"They are effective. When PETA targeted fast-food companies, the most famous and powerful welfare scientist in the country, Temple Grandin […] said she saw more improvement in welfare in one year that she had seen in her entire thirty-year career previously.[…]They call their revolution 'animal rights' but the changes PETA has won for farm animals[…], while numerous, are not victories for the animals rights so much as animal welfare: fewer animals per cage, better-regulated slaughter, less-cramped transport, and the like. PETA's techniques are often vaudeville-esque (or tasteless), but this over-the-top approach has won modest improvements that most people would say don't go far enough.[…] Ultimately the controversy around PETA may have less to do with the organization than with those who sit in judgment of it - that is, with the unpleasant realization that 'those PETA people' have stood up for values that we have been too cowardly or forgetful to defend ourselves."
