Top representatives from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the largest animal rights organization in the world, met with Salman Sufi, the head of the Prime Minister’s Strategic Reforms Unit, to discuss the initiation of contemporary veterinary and biomedical research, training for the protection of animals, and strategies for wildlife protection.
Ingrid Newkirk, the organization’s founder and president, and Shalin Gala, its vice president, attended the online meeting on behalf of PETA.
The following “possible collaboration issues” that PETA and Salman Sufi discussed during their “historic meeting” were as follows:
i. Assisting provinces and universities in the shift away from the brutal capture and slaughter of dogs and other animals for such training and toward the use of more efficient, moral, and affordable non-animal simulation models.
ii. Putting in place an educational programme to teach people how-to live-in harmony with and take care of animals.
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iii. Supporting attempts to repatriate exotic animals that have been cruelly trafficked into Pakistan and maintained there as pets and decorations.
In addition, PETA stated that it would “send follow-up information to Mr. Sufi for his consideration in implementing other strategic important reforms, including replacing the use of animals in medical training, classroom dissection activities, and biomedical research with superior, state-of-the-art methods, as well as setting up a national non-animal research methods database and working to implement PETA’s Research Modernization Deal in Pakistan.”
The statement continued, “We look forward to a long and fruitful partnering that will benefit animals, advance human health, and elevate Pakistan’s standing on the international stage. We are pleased to be working with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the head of his reforms, Mr. Sufi.
About PETA
PETA is a global nonprofit charitable organization based in Virginia, USA and with offices all over the world. This organization was created in 1980 and is dedicated to protecting and supporting the rights of all animals.
PETA fights against speciesism, a human-supremacist ideology, and concentrates on the four industries—labs, food, clothes, and entertainment—where the greatest number of animals suffer the most intensely and for the longest periods of time.
Animals are not ours to experiment on, consume, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other manner.
It also addresses a wide range of other problems, such as the harsh killing of animals and birds that are frequently seen as ‘pests’ and the mistreatment of domesticated animals.
With more than 9 million members and supporters worldwide, PETA promotes awareness of important issues through public education, investigative reporting, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity participation, and protest activities.
It also educates the public and decision-makers about animal mistreatment, with a current emphasis on similar issues in Pakistan.
