Will you tell me how you feel about the animal rights group PETA and why?

As a vegetarian and person who doesn’t wear animal products (is there a name for that?) I want so much to like PETA. But I can’t. Ideas like “Clo-fu” make me repulsed by them and feel like they don’t really have an idea of what can help their cause.

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I find them hypocritical and think they go too far to try and make their point.

The hypocritical issue is from a few years ago when there were snow storms in Colorado I think. A bunch of cattle got caught out on the range, away from the barn areas and the farmers were basically desperate to drop feed for them so they wouldn’t starve. The state was trying to help with getting money and by and by someone asked PETA to help and for their opinion. And the official PETA opinion on dropping food to snow-blocked animals was “No, they’d just be killed for food anyway.”

PETA had a chance to say, “Yes, we’ll help—these animals deserve to be treated well and not starve to death” but instead they chose to say “well, how they die doesn’t really matter, so starvation is as good as any other method”.

But I kind of love the sea kittens issue. I eat raw sea kittens all the time.

While I am an advocate of some of their positions, I am appalled by their tactics and cannot support them. (Although I liked the lewd veggie ad.)

@EmpressPixie I agree!

@Marina Terrorism doesn’t impress me

I read recently the president of PETA wants to donate their body to people when she’s dead…link
I don’t respect them. I think they started out with good intentions, but have completely gone off track.

@Likeradar – A person who uses no animal products of any kind is a vegan.

I greatly dislike their tactics. As opposed to garnering publicity for the sake of saving animals, they do it draw attention to themselves. Not cool.

i do not like them…
Many of them have no background knowledge of what they are doing, and acts on totaly irrational motives…

@aprilsimnel I’m definitley not a vegan. I’m just looking for a word for someone who doesn’t wear animal products.

While I strongly believe that animals need someone to speak for them, I am not a fan of PETA. Extremism in any form is bad, and their antics tend to alienate many that would otherwise be open to supporting anti-cruelty legislation.

@casheroo: That link was delightfully insane.

As others have stated, their concept is good, their actions are questionable.

One day my father and I were at an expo of some sort. This was when I was about eight, so I can’t recall what sort of expo or why we went, but we ended up stopping by the booth that had been set up by the state troopers so my dad (who was an officer himself) could chat with one of his friends. Right across from the trooper booth was the booth set up PETA, and they were showing a very graphic video about hunting and trapping. My father’s friend told us that one of the PETA members admitted to him that they had paid to have the traps they were featuring in their video set up. Now, whether that is true I cannot say, but it always left a sour taste in my mouth when it came to the organization. Well, that and the stories of PETA members tossing buckets of cow’s blood onto people. Both of which show the hypocrisy of the organization (again, if they are even true in the first place).

There’s also the fact that I have never once met a PETA member that hasn’t been a condescending prick. Now, I know that the chances of PETA’s entire membership being condescending pricks is slim to none, but they sure seem to have a disproportionate amount of them.

Long story short, they seem to be a very “End justifies the means” kind of group, and I’m not all that into that mentality.

PETA tries to scare people into believing what they do. That’s never okay.

They are bullies that employ scare tactics. Somewhere along the way, they went very, very wrong. Too bad they can’t scale back the scare tactics and refocus on their goals.

@Marina – I liked the veggie ad, too.

While I agree with most all of their views sometimes the activism is inappropriate. @ casheroo – Ingrid Newkirk wrote her will to emphasize the abuse that animals are left to. I believe she is a visionary and a personal hero to me.

I think they are nuts and devious and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off track. Do more harm than good.

They literally want to re-name “fish” to “sea-kittens”.

http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/

It is an institution for those who should be institutionalized.

I work on a farm where we raise Black Angus & Longhorn cattle. Do the math.

They are hypocrites. They claim to be on the side of all animals, but then, it turns out they only want to save the cute ones. I’ve never heard them claim to be for the rights of species that make most people go “eewww!”

fuck PETA

@ evylyn. They only want to save the cute ones? You think chickens are cute? I think they are ugly. But they don’t deserve to die.

@evelyns_pet_zebra What about rats? Silkworms? Spiders? Frogs?

They do work for all animals. Maybe they just use the “cute” ones in their more public campaigns for publicity. The average person will probably care more about helping an adorable puppy than an insect.

@berocky1 I have free-range chickens as pets. Once you get to know them, they are one of the cutest animals around. They taste good, too, but I can’t kill one. I guess that makes me a hypocrite since I pay the farmers to kill them for me.

Conversely, once you get to know bunnies, they aren’t cute at all. I raise them specifically for food.

As a hunter, I cannot support PETA; they hate everything I stand for. However, I like their intended message against animal cruelty. I prefer not to buy meat from the grocery because I know what goes on in the slaughterhouses.

Hunting is in my opinion the best way to get meat protein. The animals are free-range and raised on a natural diet. They don’t need to be fed all sorts of chemicals and bacteria just to digest their food (like grain-fed beef). The animal gets to live a natural healthy life until it is my turn to eat. In addition, I hunt with a bow, which kills by bleeding. It has been shown that it is one of the least painful ways of killing.
http://www.unstunnedhalal.com/article_2007_04_1_1623.html

I LOVE PETA ! :)

@ru2bz46 NO! don’t get me wrong. I have interacted with many chickens and i think they are great animals. However, I just don’t think they are “cute”.

@berocky1 In the same way that a mediocre potential mate looks better if they have a great personality, those ugly little birds look cute to me (um…but not like a potential mate or anything).

@ru2bz46 I would have to agree with you, chickens are cute in a ugly-cute kind of way!

peta people are ignorant hypocrites. They first need to know what an animal is and then support all animals, not just sea-cows and kittens. Animals also include Humans so pouring blood on a person is unethical treatment of animals. Also bacteria, insects, arachnids, etc are animals that peta just ignore. And to further educate, you, a human being, are killing thousands of animals as we speak. Just by living, your body kills harmful bacteria, so to truly not harm any animals you have to kill your self, but then by killing yourself you are harming an animal. Animal also kill other animals to live, so again to save all animals would eventually kill other. So this world cannot exist without the destruction of animals. This proves their limited knowledge.

I love Peta too, I think they’re delicious.

They are swindlers, terrorists, hypocrites and extremists. 2007 PeTA collect $30,000,000. Two co-founders advocate terrorism at their dumb cause. They give money at defense funds of ALF terrorists on trial behalf of serious crimes at cause of “animal rights” Their records show they kill 97% ot animals at their care, ASPCA near them kill only 3% of its animals. Governor of Colorado ask PeTA help save some deer and other animals, PeTA do nothing however, Governor say they are hypocrites, is obviously quite true.