[COLOR="Yellow"]Before i begin i would just like to say that i'm completely against animal cruelty. Still though, i am not a vegetarian, i support testing on animals for medical purposes and i wouldn't mind buying a leather jacket if i really like it. Whenever i get a chance, i support and even donate to local animal rescue charities. But i will never support PETA for a number of reasons.
I'm not going to write about all the reasons that makes me despise PETA, just a couple of them. If you're unfamiliar, PETA(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is the biggest animal rights organization in the world. If Peta had their way all animals across the world would be free, because they are against any type of animal "slavery" as they call it. That means no zoos, no fishing, no experiments, no pets, etc. . .
One of the reasons why PETA just plain sucks is the fact that they themselves kill animals. That's right, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals kill animals that they can't save:
http://www.nokillnow.com/PETAIngridNewkirkResign.htm
Out of the 17,806 animals they rescued in the past 7 years, 80.1% were killed and only 17.1% were adopted. "It is a totally rotten business, but sometimes the only kind option for some animals is to put them to sleep forever," ~ PETA's president Ingrid Newkirk.
There's more.
PETA also funds and financially supports terrorist groups like the ALF(Animal Liberation Front), a group responsible for setting fire and attacking medical test centers. That's right, these arsenists target locations where animal testing is performed in order to develop medicine that could save millions. I really don't think i need to mention how important these reasearch is to humanity.
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_blackeye.cfm/oid/21
Lastly, the hypocrite of the millenium award goes to PETA's Senior vice President MaryBeth Sweetland, a diabetic who in order to survive uses insulin, which was developed by testing on animals. Here's what she had to say when asked about it:
"I'm an insulin-dependent diabetic. Twice a day I take synthetically manufactured insulin that still contains some animal products -- and I have no qualms about it ... I'm not going to take the chance of killing myself by not taking insulin. I don't see myself as a hypocrite. I need my life to fight for the rights of animals."
Yup, the Vice President of PETA, a group who supports terrorists that fire bombs places that experiment on animals uses medicine derived from animal testing in order to survive. That's all i have to say for now, there's plenty more i'd like to say about PETA later on.[/COLOR]
I've never really liked PETA. They are far too extreme and I've seen them often going back on themselves. Boo hiss boo!
If I remember correctly wasn't it PETA that 'freed' a Shamu from Seaworld into the wild in order to 'safe her'? Too bad Shamu wasn't ready for life outside her tank :(
I like how they hurt humans in order to save other animals. AS IF WE WERENT ANIMALS TOO. And besides, its not like animals dont kill and eat each other too.
I seriously almost want to become a cop, just so I can mace the crap out of retarded eco hippies.
[COLOR="Yellow"]One thing i find really funny is that a lot of pet lovers who donate to PETA dont even know PETA is completely against people owning pets.[/COLOR]
I remember when someone asked PETA if they would be willing to support leagalizing Cock-Fights if the roosters wore little boxing gloves. Heh...
Oh yeah, I am against vivisection, fur coats, organized predator/prey control efforts, killing for sport and leisure, and animal cruelty in general, and I still have no respect for PETA for the aforementioned reasons and so many others.
[quote=Lord of Spam]AS IF WE WERENT ANIMALS TOO.
Only at the very core, and the distinctions between humans and all other animal species are so significant and numerous that it isn't at all difficult for me to fathom how one can loathe humanity and love animals, or vice versa, and feel compelled to defend the rights of one classification above the other.
Wait, people still think they need to pick on and discredit PETA? I thought they did a pretty good job of discreditting themselves. It's like shooting fish in a barrel, and other similar cliches.
Well, to be honest, I didn't know that PETA funded the ALF and ELF, which I did know were essentially terrorists (some of the arson happened here in 2003). PETA are a bunch of obviously hypocritical psychopaths but the fact that they fund domestic terrorism and get away with it is disgusting. Not to say that animal rights aren't important, but bombing things to achieve your goal? Childish.
[quote=Raptor]It's not like other animals employ aircraft to systematically exterminate hundreds of members of a particular species because their numbers are too high according to some specified statistic.
If they could, they would.
We do it and we were once monkeys, so unless you believe in some spiritualistic bulls[COLOR=lightgreen]h[/COLOR]it that states that humans are different to all other animals because theyre inherently evil by some divine force, you have to accept that any species with enough intelligence would do it's best to exert it's dominance over any other and make it's life as comfortable as possible.
PETA sucks and life isn't precious. It's quite literally as common as mud.
I used to volunteer down at my local SPCA and even the people there didnt like PETA. I always thought they were too radical, like being against nascar because they drink milk after the races.
[url=http://www.petakids.com]Oh lord, I just had to do it.[/url]
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They might be loopy, but [url=http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/07/30/10056079.html]this story[/url] at least makes me respect the strength of their convictions a little.
And it also makes me dislike them even more becuase they'd rather help animals than humans.
Can i just say that Aioros's morality valus seem completely out of whack to me. He says PETA is evil and hypocritical yet regulary reminds us of his involvement with PETA and animal right activities, but then says it's ok to use insluin from pigs to continue the fight for animal rights. WTF?
Acutally, for a true PETA member, they should rather die than let many pigs die for their insulin. Sure, they're saving more animal lives, but someone else could do the exact same thing without having to kill pigs. He's just making excuses because he doens't want to kill himself, and inside, he values his human self about a million times mroe than any animal, as he demonstrates here.
Unless he agrees to kill himself after I show him his logical flaw.
PETA goes way too far sometimes. I can understand treating animals right but they are against some stupid stuff like milking cows o.O