What do you guys think of animal rights and PETA?

Question

i personally think its majorly important. they have feeling and hearts, they feel pain and sadness just like us.

Answer 1

Animals were made by the Almighty and we are indeed responsible for their well being. When I was little, we had a cat. Every so often I would pull the cat's tail. It was a very patient old cat. May the Lord forgive me... My mom had told me that cat belongs to God and from that day forward I stopped pulling its tail. I realize that indeed that cat does belong to the Lord Most High. As my mom pointed out that the Lord gave him life, gave him food, gave him warm milk through his mom, when he was born and protected not only him but many cats in his lineage for centuries.

THAT SAID, it is also important to remember that balance is the key in everything. If you allowed the mice to take over, they will kill off every cat. When carnivores were killed off in large numbers, the deer die of starvation due to over grazing. The Lord Most High has made human beings stewards and given the animals in our care. We need to never forget that the animals are GOD's creatures, who the Lord knows individually and collectively but they have a purpose, just as we have a purpose.

They are something to learn from. AND we need to remember that all animals belong to the MOST HIGH LORD ALMIGHTY.

I hope this makes sense.

Answer 2

It's unthinkable how humans treat animals in this day and age. By just looking at a few pictures of what goes on at factory farms you can see the massive pain inflicted on these defenseless animals.

I've heard someone make the statement that animals are the same as plants except you have to 'catch them'. I feel this view is false, because animals have eyes, mouths, feet, and a beating heart. People shouldn't trap animals.

Sometimes the measures PETA uses are a bit extreme, but somebody has to stick up for the pain inflicted on these animals. And the only way to get people's attention is to shock them.

Here is a website with a video that shows what goes on at Kentucky Fried Chicken factory farms:

http://www.kfccruelty.com/index.asp

Answer 3

Animals have brains therefore they feel pain. The food chain is part of life, but it should be done humanely. PETA is an organization that has unfortunately become so extreme that nobody take them seriously anymore (as no extremist should be). They have broken laws themselves and endangered human life to make a point. They mean well, but they are not educating the way they should be.

Answer 4

I wish there were a medium. PETA have a lot of views I agree with. I respect animals more than people, basically. However, I don't think slinging red paint on people wearing fur is appropriate. I don't wear fur, but look at how many people wear leather (including myself). It's everywhere. There is no hiding from slaughter. All a person can do is treat all the animals they encounter with respect. I could go on forever about this, but I won't. Good question though.

Answer 5

I think animal rights and PETA are both good. Animals live on this world too and they were also created by God. It isn't fair that they should be treated differently than use when we were both created by the same being. They have feelings and souls too, or else they wouldn't live or care for themselves or others. How could a dog love you and treat you nicely but you don't give it the rights it deserves? Animals should have their rights.

Answer 6

I agree with you. I think it's really important for organizations like PETA to exist. Although cruelty to animals is still here, they're trying to stop it as hard as they can. But without them animals would be nothing in our eyes. Animals deserve just as many rights as we have, but they barely have any at all. It's really sad, and it's definitely a very important issue

Answer 7

I am vegan, but I think PETA goes way too far sometimes. There are some nasty practices out there as far as treatment of food-animals, but there are more important things to get upset about. I like animals too, but I'd sooner join Amnesty International and help some humans who are suffering.

Answer 8

Well...it's obivous from our physiology as humans that we are supposed to eat animals, just as certain other animals are supposed to eat animals. Some animals even want to eat us. It's just part of the natural order of things, regardless of whether God created life or life just naturally and luckily occured.

So killing animals to eat should not be opposed. However, I don't begrudge folks who oppose killing animals for sport. But it should be noted that many hunters do proceed to eat their game.

As for animals killed for furs and such, historically, this has been very important for humanity in terms of survival. Today, however, technology has given us other means to keep warm, so I also do not begrudge those who believe animals should not be killed for their furs.

Animal rights activists also complain about laboratory testing on animals. These complaints are not appropriate. Most technological and medical advances achieved by humans have at some point involved testing on animals. These technologies must be tested somehow before being approved for mainstream implementation, and testing on animals is better than testing on humans. Without animals to test on, humanity could not grow and achieve. Laboratory testing may just be the new way in which we need animals to survive, replacing the need of the warmth of their furs.

The bottom line is that animal rights do not equal or supercede human rights. Nature clearly indicates that we are placed above other life forms in the pecking order and that our survival depends on us usurping the rights of other living things. There is nothing wrong with this. All animals usurp the rights of other living things to survive and grow. Some eat plants, some eat other animals, but all place their own needs above those of other species. This is appropriate and natural. We should always do the same.

Answer 9

I am an animal lover - have two dogs and two cats all of which came from kill shelters. I give both time and money to the local ASPCA. However, it is my own opinion that PETA is extremist and by doing so turn more people off than gain support.

Answer 10

The best thing PEAT does is expose the horrific practice of animal testing. It is a major ethical problem in today's society that needs to be addressed. As for vegetarianism I personally believe that all life is scared, animals & people, including pre-borns. I also understand it is going to take a long time to influence a major change in peoples eating habits. Most people want what they want. It is hard for them to get outside themselves and empathize with the pain of another. Usually it takes a painful experience that they can identify with to come to such an understanding. Our spiritual journey and karma are constantly in progress. When we understand that we are all interconnected and the suffering of another is linked to the suffering of ourselves then we start to wake up and make the necessary changes to not only alleviate suffering but find true Joy, which is spiritual in its origins.

Answer 11

I think that if you accept that animals do in fact suffer for our food and clothing, and if you accept that it is not necessary to have fur and eat meat, then you have to conclude that the way we treat them is wrong. I don't believe in animal rights; I think that by caliming they have rights only distorts the picture and makes people less likely to stop mistreating animals.

Instead, I think we need to simply focus on the uncontroversial ideas that it is wrong to cause unnecessary suffering, and that our treatment of animals causes unnecessary suffering. Whether animals have rights is a very controversial and untestable hypothesis, much easier and more productive to simply say it is wrong to cause pain when it is not necessary to do so.

I don't know what to think about PETA. I do think that the criticism of them for euthanizing homeless pets is misplaced.

Brian G: whether a being has complex thoughts and problem solving abilities is irrelevant in moral considerations. We don't mistreat human which aren't able to form complex thoughts, do we? If you base your treatment of a being on its reasoning skills, you will end up admitting that it is ok to mistreat babies, the senile, and the mentally handicapped.

aboukir200: how is not killing animals allowing their rights to run "roughshod over ours"? Eating meat leads to a greater waste of resources than vegetarianism does, if its world hunger you are worried about.