After helping the Prime Minister’s Strategic Reforms Unit with the formulation of revolutionary approaches to protecting animals in the country this summer, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is now inviting federal and provincial government officials to collaborate with it to continue the development and enforcement of the reforms.
PETA’s Vice-President, International Laboratory Methods, Shalin Gala, tweeted the open invitation this week, asking for interested officials to personally contact him.
Speaking exclusively to ProPakistani today, he said, “We’ve identified numerous areas of potential strategic reforms for animals in Pakistan, and we’re happy to collaborate with provincial and federal authorities who are interested in working together to advance these issues forward”.
Gala also shared PETA’s proposed actions with this scribe, which include:
PETA is an international nonprofit charitable organization based in Virginia, USA, with entities all around the world. It was founded in 1980 and is dedicated to establishing and defending the rights of all animals while working under the simple principle that “animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way”.
PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment business. It also works on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of animals and birds that are often considered ‘pests’ as well as cruelty to domesticated animals.
With more than nine million members and supporters globally, PETA works through public education, investigative news gathering and reporting, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.
It also informs policymakers and the public about animal abuse and is currently focusing on similar concerns in Pakistan.