PETA

[sarahXedge]

someone sent me this link and I thought I'd share it.
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/petaKillsAnimals.cfm

[Delilah]

Wow, I always heard the phrase PETE KILLS but I never really knew the reasons...
Its hypocrisy

[Delilah]

*PETA


my bad

[stupidmotherfucker]

All those things are made by factory farm owners. Its all shit. The "meat locker", dairy and meat is not the only thing that needs to be frozen.

And euthenasia is inevitable. I am vegetarian, trying to go vegan, and I realize that some animals are too beyond help. Instead of making it live for mabye 2 more days is complete and total pain, they will put them to sleep-painlessly. Even no-kill shelters have to euthenise animals sometimes.

[TheWorstIdea]

And euthenasia is inevitable. I am vegetarian, trying to go vegan, and I realize that some animals are too beyond help. Instead of making it live for mabye 2 more days is complete and total pain, they will put them to sleep-painlessly. Even no-kill shelters have to euthenise animals sometimes.

But killing 90.7% of the animals they took in during 2005? Seriously, you think that's justifiable? I highly doubt that almost *every* animal was so beyond treatment that euthanasia was the only option.

In BC, if a shelter has too many animals and not enough resources to keep them, they send the animals to cities around the provinces that have a demand. Many pet stores don't carry kittens any more because there are so many cats in shelters. Options, PETA. Options.

I fucking hate PETA.

[vamppet]

This is written by people who are out looking for excuses to hate everything.

PETA does more good than bad and who says statistics are even right? They're made up 80% of the time (like I just did).

[Somatik]

Personally, I hate PETA because of their sexist bullshit advertising.

[TheWorstIdea]

- PETA's advertising tactics are unethical. Not unethical in the vague, 'I don't agree with them' way, unethical in the real sense of the word. Like equating meat to Nazism and vegetarianism to Christianity.

- PETA offers little in real information and a boatload of propaganda.

- PETA has vilified farming and animal husbandry. This doesn't hurt the multi-million dollar farms with horrific practices, it hurts the small farms that practice responsible animal care.

- PETA makes a ton of money off of campaigns that are downright illogical. Like paying to "save" a turkey at Thanksgiving. You aren't "saving" anything, you're buying into a big-ass scam.

- PETA plays the environmental aspect of vegetarianism while supporting meat alternatives that are expensive and not manufactured locally. You know how much pollution is generated shipping food products around the world? A lot more than supporting a local small organic farm.

- PETA encourages activism as something that's trendy, not something genuine.

- PETA blatantly provides the wrong information about the Canadian seal hunt and makes it out to be the most gruesome event imaginable. In reality, the majority of seals are shot and the seal hunt is monitored by Fisheries and Oceans. It is illegal to kill harp seal pups and hooded seal pups and has been since 1987. See: Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Just a few of the problems I have with PETA. I strongly believe in animal rights, but I can't support an organization like PETA. It isn't about statistics, it's about how PETA pushes their cause.

[sarahXedge]

They had this mulsing campaign. to boycot aussie wool becouse of the inhuman mulesing.

Mulesing is where they chop off the tail of sheep to prevent flystrike.
The alternative is to leave the tail on.... but then sheep gets flystrike... and that eats their butt away.
But they didnt tell anyone that did that.

they even had pink as a campaigner.......she claimed she wouldnt play a show in australia until it was stoped..... she suddenly resigned from being a campaigner and oh played a heap of shows here this year.
Apparently they lied to her or "mislead" her and she quit

[starlitedecay]

- PETA makes a ton of money off of campaigns that are downright illogical. Like paying to "save" a turkey at Thanksgiving. You aren't "saving" anything, you're buying into a big-ass scam.

This reminds me of the "pardoning" of the turkey at the White House every year.

When I was younger I wondered what the turkey did wrong...to be recieving a pardon. I always imagined a legion of turkey spies.

I wonder what happens to the turkey afterwords? Maybe that's why they don't pardon a turkey on Christmas? Or a pig? (ham??)

on a side note...PETA sends me shit constantly. I throw everything away but the address labels. Once I sent them a letter saying that they should have used the money that it cost to print and send me address labels every month or so and use that to save some animals. They never responded and still send me labels occasionally.

[iNFAMOUSRiCK]

I've never been a fan of PETA. It goes against my general "do what you please but leave other people alone" mentality. Who are they to say they're right? Who are meat-eaters to say they're right? If you don't like the idea of killing an animal for nourishment, don't kill an animal for nourishment, but leave me alone when I'm trying to enjoy my hamburger

[kissmycombatboots]

my biggest problem with peta is their anti-pit bull attitude. did you know that the president thinks that all pits should be euthinized because they are "bred to be killers"?
i challenge anyone who meets my Baby dog to say that she's bred to be a killer.
sweetest animal on the face of the planet.

[caseystilletto]

Aerosmith is on Fashion Rocks right now on CBS...yay!

PETA can kiss my big fat steak-eating ass.
I'm all for humane treatment of animals, but if an animal is bred to be eaten, get over it.
kissmycombatboots, I totally agree with you! Several of my friends have pit bulls, and they are sweet.

[weetzie]

PETA is an example of corperate activism. they have a ton of money, and spend most of it reinforcing their image instead of helping animals. as a result, whenever people hear im vegan, they assume im insane and affiliated with peta.

my view on the meat industry is that people need to reduce the amount of meat and dairy they are consuming, not nescessarily stop. not even from an ethical standpoint, but from a conservational point of view. meat is very expensive to produce. eating vegetables puts you as a first level consumer while eating meat puts you as a third level consumer, meaning so many more resources are being used to transport the original vegetable to the cow, whereas if we just ate the vegetable or grain in the first place it would feed a lot more people. i also feel very strongly about supporting your local economy, so trying to buy local animal products as much as possible so your money is helping a family and not a corperation, and you're eating an animal that had more respect than an animal soley treated as a product.

[Cobwebs on my Chucks]

*Nods in agreement* veganism is not just about animals rights, its also a way of sustainable existence.

I haven't got much time for Peta.