People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, commonly known as PETA, is an American animal rights organization.

Peta or PETA may also refer to:

Groups, organizations, companies

  • Defenders of the Homeland (), volunteer armies established by the occupying Japanese in the Dutch East Indies and British Malaya 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), 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

Other uses

  • peta-, a metric prefix denoting a factor of 10<sup>15</sup>
  • Peta (cat), the unofficial Chief Mouser to the UK Cabinet Office 1964-78
  • Pentaerythritol tetraacrylate (PETA), an organic chemical
  • Pulse Ejector Thrust Augmentor, a type of jet engine

See also

  • Mysore peta, a type of Indian royal turban
  • Petta (disambiguation)
  • Pettah (disambiguation)
  • Pita (disambiguation)
  • Pet (disambiguation)