People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA; ) is an American animal rights nonprofit organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. Founded in March 1980 by Newkirk and animal rights ...

, or more commonly known as PETA is an American

animal rights Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all Animal consciousness, sentient animals have Moral patienthood, moral worth independent of their Utilitarianism, utility to humans, and that their most basic interests—such as ...

organization. Peta or PETA may refer to:

Groups, organizations, companies

Pembela Tanah Air The Defenders of the Homeland (; , PETA) was a volunteer army established on 3 October 1943 in the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, occupying Japanese. The Japanese intended PETA to a ...

, volunteer armies established by the occupying Japanese in the

Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 Au ...

(currently

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

) and

British Malaya The term "British Malaya" (; ) loosely describes a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the island of Singapore that were brought under British Empire, British hegemony or control between the late 18th and the mid-20th century. Unlike the ...

(currently

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

) during World War II * People Eating Tasty Animals, an organization mocking the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' stance on veganism * Philippine Educational Theater Association, a Philippine theatrical association

People

Peta (given name) Peta is a feminine given name. Notable individual with this name include: People Women * Peta Brady (born 1972), Australian actress * Peta Buscombe, Baroness Buscombe (born 1954), English barrister and politician * Peta Credlin (born c. 1970), Aust ...

, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Tomasz Peta (born 1951), Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan

Places

* Peta, Greece, a town * Peţa River, a river in Romania

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* peta-, a

metric prefix A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or submultiple of the unit. All metric prefixes used today are decadic. Each prefix has a unique symbol that is prepended to any unit symbol. The pr ...

denoting a factor of 10¹⁵ * Peta (cat), the unofficial Chief Mouser to the UK Cabinet Office 1964-78 *

Pentaerythritol tetraacrylate Pentaerythritol tetraacrylate (PETA, sometimes PETTA, PETRA) is an organic compound. It is a tetrafunctional acrylate ester used as a monomer in the manufacture of polymers. As it is a polymerizable acrylate monomer, it is nearly always supplied wi ...

(PETA), an organic chemical *

Pulse Ejector Thrust Augmentor A Pulse Ejector Thrust Augmentor or PETA is a proprietary pulse jet engine developed by Boeing. The Boeing PETA design embeds the pulse jet inside a thrust augmenting duct which entrains surrounding air into the exhaust stream. This entrained air i ...

, a type of jet engine

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