Is Peta abusing?

Question

Hello. I'm a vegetarian and is strongly against animal cruelty. Now, I'm hearing that PETA was or is abusing animals in some kind of way? Is that true? because I'm in Peta.

Can I get a direct answer of "Should I get out of Peta?"

Answer 1

Anytime an organization gets larger, it get put under more scrutiny.

Peta is for euthanasia of homeless animals. Their thought is that it's better for an animal to die a painless death than to be hit by a car and left to suffer for a week, to get tortured by a cruel human, to get gutted by a dog, or to get tested on in a lab. Or, to spend the rest of its life living in a crate or cage. Whether or not it's a view you agree with is your own personal philosophy.

Contrary to the lies told here, Peta is NOT against no-kill shelters. If an animal can find a home with a responsible owner, then they are thrilled. But, as stated above, if the animal would spend the rest of its life in a cage or in a terrible situation, they feel the animal would be better off euthanized.

As far as JoJo is concerned - I'm guessing she must be perfect. She must have NO hypocritical things in her life. I just find it amazing when people bash people for trying to make a difference. I always say that 75% moral, good, and ethical is better than 0%. Sorry toots, no one is perfect.

For animal lovers, its hard to consider a mentality of death is better than life, so they automatically think that ANY euthanasia is bad. It takes an open mind to see a different way of looking at things. Whether or not you agree, is your call. Again, I'm not showing support for Peta or agreeing with everything that they do, I just thought that a real answer would be better than these "Peta Kills" and "You are Hypocritical" answers that don't do a damn thing. More rhetoric. Blah, Blah, Blah.


Edit: And this is the problem with this site, and the country in general. I simply presented what Peta believes, and I get negged. How does that work? There was no "you should believe this way, too" or "Peta sucks for promoting death". I left it for the readers to decide.

So now, who to believe - those who hate anyone who presents an alternate (real) side of the story or those who present the real side of the story and get trashed for it? When did Americans become so damn anti-education and anti-truth? Geez. No wonder we are in such a moral quagmire.

If you don't like what Peta does - fine. If you do - fine. But to neg the people who just try to offer the truth and what the company says, is BS. I feel sorry for you people - and also scared that you are voters and raising children.

Lativia - whether or not you get out of Peta is your personal choice. It doesn't affect me either way. Just remember that you really can't trust a bunch of strangers on the Internet, myself included. People have different reasons for telling you that you shouldn't be a member. Whether they are threatened by vegetarians, whether they are threatened because they love to wear fur, whether they are threatened because they love to breed their dog, I can't tell you,and they certainly won't. You just don't know their intentions or where their rhetoric is coming from.

Answer 2

Peta Abuses Animals

Answer 3

Yeah, PETA is abusing animals. And the incedent with the bear was appalling. Animals a have a right to live and go to another home as a pet as long as it is treated with respect and is looked after.

I, myself, would rather an animal to go to the shelters to be adopted out. All our pets have come from animal shelters and it might be cruel for a few days or weeks, but once the animal is a part of the family that adopted it, it would feel much better than before. It, i think would compensate.

Answer 4

PETA used to be a good organization; actually caring about pets and animals. But since they found out how much $$ they can extort from factory farms, that's been their focus ever since. I know some peta people and they are decent people; it's like a labor union, the higher ups make the decision for you to go on strike. (Or throw blood on people at a KFC....)

Answer 5

PETA has some good points for raising issues about animal cruelty but they are certainly not the best and certainly go against many religious principles(if you are religious in the Christian,Jewish or Muslim faiths). Much of the cruelty which occurs, happens for one reason...Money. Big wigs in companies are worried about profits profits profits. They bully middle management to boost production to meet orders/goals and they are forced to do things they never intentionally mean to because there jobs depend on it. Things like jamming hundreds of pigs cows etc. into tiny pens where they can't move and suffer obviously happens. Well when the financial district hears that profits are up for the year at Purdue or whatever, they say buy Purdue stock. Well if transportation didn't cost so much (Oil/chemical companies pulling record profits, and largest campaign supporters) less animals would have to suffer. Celebrities who support companies which may be the real root cause of the animal cruelty in the first place need to wake up (chemical/oil companies with record profits and also pollute the environment more than anyone else, as well as the financial analysts who promote the purchase of these companies stocks). Many celebrities are fighting against the wrong people and are unfortunately hypocritical. Its not the poor underpaid food worker with the whip he/she should be after because that will not solve the problem. Its out of the poor workers control.

On a side note, humans are omnivores. We have the ability to eat both plants and animals. Vegans and non-vegans should pursue whatever makes them happy. Remember hunters and fishermen get a quick meal but takes lots of work, and plant growers have to wait a whole season to get food and spend a long time harvesting. Also both meat and vegetables have fecal matter on it (remember the spinach problem in California). Anything handled by humans has what humans touch on it. And PETA should not be forcing people to be vegetarian. (That almost sounds like lobbying in Congress).

Realize this, if you were against all animal testing including drug testing (which is mandated by law and should be) which saves millions of lives every year what would you do if you were left with this situation...
You and your spouse have a child and its the only one you have and it catches a deadly disease which is only curable with a drug (that was developed by testing on animals). Would you sacrifice your only child and say "Sorry little Timmy you have to go the way of the dodo" "I can't give you a drug that a 1000 mice, 100 dogs and 20 monkeys died for during development." "I would have used it if it was 10000 people that died during the development of the drug and 0 animals". Very tough decision isn't it.
Make sure you are sure what you are really fighting for and follow an organization that meets your real needs. Extremist activity is 99.9% of the time not the best way to solve an issue.

Answer 6

I am a HUGE animal lover also. Here is the info that I heard. There was a couple who were taking animals out of shelters and giving them lethal injections in the back of their van. Their logic was it was better to have them dead then keep them in cages.

From what the news story said, PETA was completely aware of it, and was supporting it. Go to www.petakillsanimals.com and check it out. It is really DISCUSTING. I would suggest supporting another animal charity. I am thinking of giving my money to the charity that helps put animal abusers in jail. There needs to be better laws against these people!

Answer 7

PETA abuses more than just animals. On a recent tyraid about the morals of serving fioe gras (goose liver) in San Francisco, they destroyed a restaurant. They took away a mans lively hood because he served goose liver.

PETA is an organization based on ignorance. Many of you belong because it sounded good. Now your ready to be brainwashed. Let's throw paint on somebodies fur!!

I wouldn't be surprised if the Rockerfeller estate funds PETA.

Answer 8

It just seems strange to me that the people who love PETA (especially the spokespeople) are so hypocritical. The denounce fur but I bet they don't wear plastic shoes or carry plastic purses. And what about those expensive shoes they wear? Made from someone in slave labor who makes $.23/hour. Ridiculous. Why not focus on what's important? Like how humans need to treat each other?????

No, I don't think I'm perfect. I think PETA's basic philosophy at one time was fine. It's their extreme tactics to other humans which make me cringe. Why aren't they more tolerant of people who don't agree with their point of view?

I don't pick a person directly out of a crowd and say crappy things about them. Isn't that bashing too? Blah, blah, blah.

On to your question:
I say get out of PETA. Volunteer your time at a nearby animal shelters or adopt-a-pet foundations. How about helping the homeless at a a shelter? We ALL matter. That's what it's about.

Answer 9

Any organisation will have its bad seeds. Just like they found that some greenpeace activists were polluting.

I think you're talking about the story with the cats or dogs that were in the streets, and were killed instead of being delivered to a pet shop and get adopted.

Answer 10

Watch Penn & Teller's BullSh*t on Showtime. They have an episode on P.E.T.A.
I was soo shocked about P.E.T.A.
Shame on you P.E.T.A.

They killed animals :-(

http://thatvideosite.com/view/709.html