Org. that defends boxers' rights?

Usage examples of peta.

Great Danes, Sheba and Maverick, greeted them ebulliently as they clambered on board, though Peta knew that the animals would not be so friendly were their master not in the group.

The nutcases at PETA would chain themselves to the gates of our military bases, protesting the fact that bombs hurt wildlife and their natural habitat.

He was as surprised as Clements at his reaction to Peta Smith's death.

She'd spent eight or nine years growing up amongst 'em, and it was only after she'd been initiated as a full-grown Comanche woman that the distinguished war chief Peta Nocona courted her fair and proper, playing his nose flute at her and reciting all the wondrous coups he counted.