What do you think about PETA?

Answer 1

i believe they truly care about animals, but like other fanatics they aren't balanced or logical. they don't believe in captivity at all. honestly do you think all these dogs/cats/horses/ferrets/birds/etc.etc. would last a week in the wild . also they want us all to be vegetarian. that's a personal choice and no one has the right to condemn another for their lifestyle. so while they have good intentions their extremism tends to disassociate them from mainstream society.

Answer 2

If you visit their website, you'll be upset.

That humans aren't animals isn't right-- Descartes made this thing up where animals are essentially robots, devoid of reason, respond only to stimuli.

It's not true, they generalize from particulars as we do-- they have different ways of living, and we should try to respect them... because we Aren't cromagnans in caves with sticks sitting around a fire. If we judge them by intelligence, then can we eat the mentally-retarded? New-born infants? etc.

PETAns actually very rational. In part because Peter Singer-- Princeton University Professor of Bioethics-- wrote out all the arguments for "Animal Liberation" 20+ years ago.

Yes, they're angry. You'd be too if you found out there's a shitload of gratuitous, unnecessary violence against the living in the world. It's not the same as abortion activists.. all the "terrorism" by PETA are either directly liberating animals or destruction of property. If you think that's the same as what the "billions served" are doing everyday-- killing animals for no reason other than "it tastes good", you're pretty hopelessly confused. It's like a Nazi calling a Civil Rights Activist a terrorist and murderer.

I know people that wouldn't mind killing a few pompous carnivores, but they express restraint, trying to follow this paradigm of non-violence. Which is really absurd given what happens everyday is manufactured misery and genocide.

We need milk, meat, cheese-- all that garbage out of public schools. The Food Pyramid needs to be thrown out. There's so much disinformation about the "natural" necessities of eating this diet, when it makes people insane, constipated, stupid fat and unhealthy.

The more pressing issues have to be social justice-- there's no way for people to live in the world while the major majority are living hand-to-mouth, are in prison, lack basic needs fulfillment. But that doesn't mean PETA or Greenpeace has no place, they are just one of a group of organizations with very convincing ideologies, with no great way of implementing them in any powerful way. Which is a travesty we all have to think through.

-.- artfuldodger1300...
I want to laugh. But it's like a never-ending Carl's Jr. commercial.
Non-vegans have to justify their choices, and so they live in irony.
Not that the ironic dimension is bad, or restricted just to that class... but meh.

Someone said "Say no to hegemony" to one of my questions yesterday... damn funny, but at the same time-- heh the more ambiguous the joke, the edgier and better. Dogma is certainly a great target. But no one cares to figure out how it's rational, it makes sense-- so it just seems dogmatic, because the conclusion is so far from the common conception. And we end up throwing eggs at people due to our own ignorance.

I think Penn and Teller did a piece on PETA in their Bullshit! video series. They're pretty critical and amusing, I think they wear leather for the whole thing, and towards the end they start eating fried chicken while they talk. Then they get a a shot of a chicken trying a piece of fried chicken out of their bucket. haha.. god. I laughed during Schindler's List so this doesn't surprise me that I laugh here.

Answer 3

I would agree that we need an organization for the ethical treatment of animals.

That we humans consume the animals as a resource is one thing. But to make them suffer is another. I love eating meat, but if I had to kill them myself, since i'm a city-slicker, I'm sure I would do it quickly and relativly painlessly.

I once baked a tray of live crabs in the oven...

i felt guilty ever since.

Next time, I'll put them in the freezer for 30 minutes before hand and preheat the oven, hot! Same goes for lobster, although better steamed.

Anyways they have this huge anti pit bull thing.

Sometimes they are right but in some cases, pit bull owners get offended.

I guess we just need more people to step up to the plate and do something about these situations.

I used to own a pit bull, and yes it ended the way so many pit bull stories ended. sadly.

But one day I plan to start a pit bull ranch and save all those inner city pit bulls. Until then i'm just another statistic.

Answer 4

PETA is a fairly good organization. However, they DO have a tendency to spread propoganda. A funny thing: I saw a tongue-in-cheek bumper sticker once that said "PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals." (Of course, PETA actually stands for "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but you know that!)

Answer 5

PETA is a bunch of radical extremists with delusions of grandure.
They have taken a good idea of helping animals and taken it to an extreme so that if you are not a vegan, you are wrong.
Am I a believer in animal rights? Yes.
Am I going to give up my sandwich at lunch because a cow gave its life for it? Heck no. Im not going to upset the balance of what nature has been doing for millions of years. If their ancestors didnt eat meat, they wouldnt be here to begin with.
PETA is not for people who have an ounce of what is real. It is for people who have no sense of gray and everything is black and white. I equate these people to the abortionist activists that shoot the mothers going into clinics. They are against abortion, but are willing to kill TWO lives to get the message across.
My advice-Do as you like within your own house. Leave the others to God and the government to sort out.

Answer 6

they are a little whacko and take thier beliefs to the extreme, but in some cases they need to be. I think there are good and bad points to PETA but the bad outweighs the good in more ways than one. Especially those posters with the baby chickens that say Im not a nugget...LMAO

Answer 7

Most of them are nutjobs. I mean, to get a celebrity to protest a bust of Colonel Sanders in the state capital of kentucky over A couple of videos that showed some cruel thing being done to chickens that weren't even in the same state is ridiculous. Sanders is done. He was a Brilliant man, who had a great marketing idea, and gave a huge amount of publicity to the state of kentucky. The state should Honor his memory eternally. And for the record, I very rarely eat KFC.

Answer 8

PETA
A small village out of town of ARTA in Greece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arta,_Greece

Answer 9

They are over the top. They'd be better off with a more moderate program which could attract a broader spectrum of the population.

Answer 10

Terrorist Organization? I agree. A bunch of rich college hippies that have too much free time that could be spent on something worthwhile.