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I’ve never heard peta mentioned in this context. Source?
https://time.com/2798480/peta-autism-got-milk/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/the-bad-science-behind-petas-claim-that-milk-might-cause-autism/371751/
https://www.newsweek.com/peta-autism-twitter-ad-1559104
These are all about the supposed link between milk and autism, not vaccines and autism.
I've realized that I poorly worded my earlier post, I meant that the claim that milk causing autism inspired the later claimed that vaccines cause autism, it was the first popularized claim that X consumable caused autism as far as I know of.