Sunday, October 16, 2011

PETA Persuasion Techniques

PETA uses various methods in their attempts to convince people to align with their views, including:


Bandwagon – Has many people appearing in their commercials, representing them in public places

Beautiful people – Has celebrities like Lea Michele, Pamela Anderson as pitch people

Celebrities – Has celebrities like Lea Michele, Pamela Anderson as pitch people

Intensity – See, ‘Rather Go Naked’ campagin

Repetition – Repeats mantra of leave animals alone throughout website

Humor – T-shirts try to get things across ‘comically’

Warm and fuzzy – Pictures of dogs, chickens

Testimonials – Has many pitch people, showing up in commercials and ads

Name calling – Attack non-vegetarians, imply everything that’s wrong with the world is their fault and they’re evil

Card stacking – Doesn’t say anything about positive things gained from animal testing

Scapegoat – Blame eating meat for pretty much everything

Straw man – Says wearing fur is bad because all fur comes from cruelty to animals, and keeping them in cages.  This is easier to argue than why people shouldn’t have pets at all, which is one of their views

Association – They have ads with Justin Bieber and Steve-O, among others, to associate themselves with what’s seen by most people as ‘cool’.

Fear – Love us, don’t eat us.  Do you like sad animals?  Then love them, don’t eat them

Maybe – Pictures of baby chickens and captions, ‘We are not nuggets,’ doesn’t really paint an entirely true image of how nuggets are probably made.

Charisma – Celebrities question you with, ‘Whose skin are you in?’

Name-calling – Refers to McDonald’s on its site as ‘McCruelty’

Simple solution – Let all animals roam free/don’t eat them, have pets, wear their skin, and so on.  But what happens to people who work in those industries?

Bribery – Signing online petitions earns ‘PETA Points.’

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