Questions for PETA members?

Question

I am just trying to figure out how PETA people would answer these questions because I want to see how they think and operate. I'm not trying to be offensive and if any of these sound silly I apologize, but I’m giving PETA a chance to defend itself. I really am interested in what you have to say. (Please answer all of them)

1. If you had the chance to save 2 dogs or one person, which would you save? 10 dogs?

2. When a lion eats an antelope, isn't that bad?

3. If we killed all the lions wouldn't we save tons more animals?

4. On www.peta.org i found this in the faq section. "Helping animals is not any more or less important than helping human beings—they are both important." Now if x is not less than y and x is not greater than y, x must be equal to y. Does that mean PETA thinks the importance of helping animals (which was x) is equal to the importance of helping humans (y)?

5. Why does PETA tend to so frequently use the objectification of women to promote their ideas?

Thanks

for information on PETA and the objectification of women look at their wikipedia entry.

Answer 1

Peta is for fruits and nuts that have nothing else to do but make asses of them selves

Answer 2

1. If you had the chance to save 2 dogs or one person, which would you save? 10 dogs?
-I would save dogs before humans. I hate people though.

2. When a lion eats an antelope, isn't that bad?
-No, because it's a wild animal.

3. If we killed all the lions wouldn't we save tons more animals?
-No, because killing animals isn't right. Leave the animal killing to the animals.

4. On www.peta.org i found this in the faq section. "Helping animals is not any more or less important than helping human beings—they are both important." Now if x is not less than y and x is not greater than y, x must be equal to y. Does that mean PETA thinks the importance of helping animals (which was x) is equal to the importance of helping humans (y)?
-Not to me. I'm sure they meant that. But what I get from it is that everyone is always trying to help people all the time & there aren't enough people trying to help animals.

5. Why does PETA tend to so frequently use the objectification of women to promote their ideas?
-To get male attention, obviously.

Answer 3

Not a member of PETA, but:

1. It depends entirely on the person. I don't believe humans are inherently more important than other animals. I think such a view is at best arrogant. In the case of most people, I would save the dog(s.)

2. Perhaps for the antelope, but I am not going to convince the lion to stop eating antelope, s/he really can't do anything else to survive.

3. No, look at what happened when people killed off the wolves. This caused deer populations to skyrocket, which just provided an excuse about the need to kill them. Overpopulation leads to a scarcity of resources. Given the balance of Nature, it is likely that more antelope would die of starvation than would have been killed by lions.

4. Yes, that is a logical conclusion to make about that faq. Note that Y is a part of X. (Homo sapiens are simply another species of animal.)

5. Same reason any other advertising firm uses it. Sex sells. Guys will almost always come over and look at a naked woman, then they get exposure to the message.

Answer 4

Would you mind if I answer the questions form an abolitionist's prospective ( http://animal-law.org )? I'm no Peta member but maybe my thoughts may give you a bit to compare?

1. If you had the chance to save 2 dogs or one person, which would you save? 10 dogs?

- It depends on my relationship to the parties involved. If the dogs were ones I knew well and the person was George W. Bush you can bet I would save the dogs. However, this question means nothing when applied to our day-to-day morality. Just because I would choose to save my child over an elderly person does not mean that we should kill the elderly, exploit them, or use them in biomedical experiments.

2. When a lion eats an antelope, isn't that bad?

-It’s not, because lions are carnivorous, they must eat animals to survive. The way we treat animals is in no way comparable to the relationship between a lion and an antelope for a vast number of reasons.

3. If we killed all the lions wouldn't we save tons more animals?

- considering humans worldwide kill 50 billion (yep that’s billion, with a B) animals per year, no.

4. On www.peta.org i found this in the faq section. "Helping animals is not any more or less important than helping human beings—they are both important." Now if x is not less than y and x is not greater than y, x must be equal to y. Does that mean PETA thinks the importance of helping animals (which was x) is equal to the importance of helping humans (y)?

- Despite what Peta may say, no in my opinion and for reasons that you point out in question 5 I do not think their interests are equal in helping humans. Abolitionist theory however does take a stance on human rights issues and feels the movement for animal rights must be part of a larger struggle to end all oppression, human or non-human.

5. Why does PETA tend to so frequently use the objectification of women to promote their ideas?

- They use sexism to oppose speciesism, which is just like using racism to oppose homophobia. It's fighting oppression with oppression and does nothing but make you look quite foolish.

Thanks

- Your welcome, I suggest you visit http://animal-law.org for a more eloquent explanation of abolitionist animal rights and the differences between our views and Peta’s for example.

Answer 5

1. What got you into joining PETA? I joined PETA 10 years ago, I wanted to help save the lives of animals and protect them against testing and abuse. 2. What do you enjoy about PETA?I enjoy PETA because the spread awareness and they never give up a cause, they know they are doing the right thing and I do too. 3. Have you been in a protest before? If so, what for? Yes, I have protested against KFC on a couple of occasions, I wear PETA shirts every once in a while to help spread the word. 4. Are you part of the PETA2 street team? Yes I am a member, there is a lot of neat stuff on their website. 5. What do you do to spread the word about animal cruelty with the help of PETA? I don't tell anyone what to do, I respect their opinion and hope they respect mine too, I will answer any question that they ask. I tell them about the PETA website-things on there will make you cry . I wear their T-shirts and have the stickers on my car. I highly respect PETA too.

Answer 6

1.The sane ones in PETA would save people.

2.when a lion eats an antelope its the natural cycle of life, but yes its bad as hell for the antelope!

3.(killing animals is against PETA) if all lions were killed then it would cause an imbalance in nature, thus causing even more animals to die

4.YES

5. That is(its mostly women in PETA anyway)just another way for them to get their point across and pull more women/money into their organization.

Answer 7

1. A person no matter what. And to the person that compared a retarded person to a rapist or a murderer, you're sick.

2. No. That's natural. The antelope has opportunities to fend for itself.

3. See above.

4. I think the answer to that is rather obvious. Of course humans are more important. Just trying to save animals who have been treated wrong is not saying that animals are better than humans.

5. Hm, I didn't see this anywhere ... I'll take your word for it but I've not seen it.

Long story short, I joined PETA because I want to help animals who have no one to help them. Animals who are being slaughtered mercilessly. But I don't think animals are better than humans, at all. But anyone with a concscious should admit that a lot of animals, especially those used for food, are treated really inhumanely. If someone treated a dog or a cat like that, it would be animal cruelty.

Answer 8

Peta is NOT-ETHICAL in their policy of "forced neuter and spay"

AS far as the LIONS I do not know if people are sleeping or what, but I guess it took m e a while to WAKE UP to see "marley's ISLAND" signal...
EVERYBODY NEEDS SOME TIME ALONE, gnr possible correaltion....

There is a design , based on ZONES and based on REFUGE areas...

One of the first things we need to realize is that the "food chain" talk of one eating another for "population control" etc etc... that most of us were taught in school well, such is NOT RIGHT.... think HIGHER, think of reality based KINGDOM

MURDER and RAPE is WRONG... from mice to men etc.

THERE IS A VAST AMOUNT OF PAIN IN TODAY'S EARTH SYSTEM, we need to change.

Answer 9

1. i think the person would want me to save the 2 dogs.
any decent human being would feel compassion for animals who cannot speak for themselves.
if someone put a gun to my head and said its either you or the dog, i would sacrifice my life to let the dog have life.
Jesus Christ laid down his life for me and everybody else.
how much more should we lay down our lives for God's creatures less we be hypocrites.
we will be judged by how well we treated the voiceless in our society.
people believe in ufos and other lifeforms.
tell me, if you were from a advanced civilization in outer space and you saw how we torture animals, would you consider us civilized?
if you believe that animals are below us, than i submit that we are below intelligent life forms that may exist in outer space.
so, if a life form from outer space who could read minds conquered earth and treated us the same way we treat animals; how would you feel???
after all, we are below them on the food chain because they can read other peoples thoughts and we cannot, so by using your logic it is completely acceptable for a advanced race from outer space to eat us and torture us because we would be considered "lower class animals".
what defense could we possibly have against a higher intelligent life form if we were guilty of the same thing they want to do to us???
do you not see my logic?
2. yes, i feel so sad that animals must eat each other to survive.
the difference between us and animals is that we have the choice to not eat animals, they do not.
just because someone rapes a girl, does that mean i should rape as well???
two wrongs do not make a right.
just because animals kill each other in the wild does not mean that we become what we despise.
3. no, have you not felt compassion for when an animal dies?
have you become so desensitized to killing animals that they are just a bunch of cells, nothing more.
all life is precious, we are the aliens on this sinful world.
the needs of the few or the one outway the wants of the many.
killing never saved a life.
4. i cannot speak for peta, only myself.
i feel we are all equals in the fact that all living things deserve liberty.
don't you see what we have become by saying animals don't have rights?
by declaring animals as property, we have made slaves of our less developed life forms.
women and blacks were once considered property a long time ago.
by labeling them as property man used them as he pleased.
are we not guilty of the same things with animals?
tell me, does it not bother you in the least that chickens have their beaks ripped off while they are alive.
i have a challenge for you!
watch this video and than come back to tell me if you feel the same way.
when i saw how they torture animals my eyes could not stop crying.
how can any intelligent, decent human being not feel for animals?
if you still feel the same than i question your humanity.
i am not saying we should ban meat for food, no, on the contrary , what i'm saying is that just because we have the right, it does not give us the right to torture and enslave the ones who cannot speak.
banning is not the answer, only education in slaughter houses will stop the needless slaughter.
5. i agree with you on this point 100%.
promise me you will watch this video.
i can't stop crying.
God Bless

Answer 10

Just think, if it hadn't been for our ancestors first scavenging carcasses for protein, then learning to actively hunt on their own, we wouldn't have evolved the brainpower that spawned such "enlightened" folks like those of PETA. One only need to look at their own teeth to come to the realization that we have evolved as OMNIVOROUS creatures.

If the good folk at PETA want to chew their cud, fine. It's their choice. Just leave the rest of us to our propensity for, and enjoyment of a rib-eye charred bloody rare...

PS
Here's an idea for all you PETA mopes who didn't like my answer. Next time you're at the zoo, hop over the wall at the lion exhibit, and try to get the lions to eat a granola bar...