I do support animal rights, and I have for years. I used to believe in PETA, and I studied all their sites for any info I could get on animal cruelty.
But a while ago, I wrote an email to PETA about the lies they were spreading about the Canadian seal hunt. I don't support the hunt, but their articles are written in such a way to suggest that the hunt is pointless (which it's not) and that Canadians are evil and bloodthirsty animal murderers.
A few replies later, the PETA rep finally said that they were aware that they were lying, and that they didn't care. She told me that it was justified to lie in order to convince people of the evil being done, and there was really no point in trying to stop them from doing it.
How far can you trust these organizations without discovering that they're just more mindless activists (people who only oppose it because it hurts cute animals)? Is there any reason why I should continue researching animal cruelty when I know I'm just reading lies?
2006-07-11
08:27:07
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