i've seen a lot of negative propaganda about PETA. is any of it true?

Answer 1

Yes. This much is true:

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/article_detail.cfm?article=134

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/23/EDG11DC9BK1.DTL

PETA won't waste their $$$ on saving animals if there isn't a front page news story to go with it. PETA doesn't want to use it's $$$ to take care of animals in their care because it would take $$$ away from their meaningless sensational stunts.

Answer 2

Probably. But it's not really Peta's fault, there are always going to be people in an organization that take things too far. Just because some people that support Peta are kind of crazy, it doesn't mean Peta itself is bad.

Answer 3

the center for consumer freedom, an organization funded by the restaurant industry, has put negative spins on almost anything peta does that is positive. they hire people to do just that--to find the perfect way to word something to make it seem bad. peta is a great organization. the only thing you have to decide is--are you more for animal welfare (hands on with animals) or for animal rights (protests, etc). if you are more for the welfare side, then maybe peta isn't for you. if you are willing to voice your opposition to animal exploitation, then peta is by far the best organization out there.

Answer 4

I don't believe any of this "peta kills animals" stuff. Well if youre rescuing abused/neglected animals of COURSE most of them will have to be euthanised.

but i think their methods are ridiculous all the same, and wouldn't support them ever. Its organisations like PETA which give vegans a bad name and discourage people from learning anything.

Answer 5

My observation is that MOST of it is true. They're too way over the top. That story about the German Shepard and the soldier is a totally made up one.
Hey, who doesn't like animals?...Do some serious checking up on them and keep an open mind and you'll see that most of them are misguided people who are not capable of holding a real job...........I think the beginners mean well but some sanity has to sink in at some time.
Any program that's fanatical is not good. Peta just happens to be one of the many...Keep an open mind and think logically, you'll find what you're looking for.

Answer 6

Without seeing what you saw or read, it hard to say.

PETA kills animals to the tune of about 90% of all the animals they took in at their Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. Being a tax exempt group and by law they have to file paper work on the animals so here’s a link to the filing

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/downloads/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf

Ingrid Newkirk has stated that "I would go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself. Because I couldn't stand to let them go through (other workers abusing the animals.) I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day."

So apparently it’s ok the PETA kills animal, but nobody else better.

PETA has support terrorist groups, ALF and ELF.

PETA issued comics mommy kills animals and daddy kills animals and have given them out in front of schools. Note fur is dead and fishing hurts are owned by PETA

http://www.furisdead.com/pdfs/mommykills.pdf

http://www.fishinghurts.com/pdfs/DaddyKillsAnimals.pdf

Here watch this Penn and Teller did a really good job on exposing PETA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwV3925TiOQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wqGp9yJ-d0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=964QDvJFhvc&feature=related

Answer 7

Yes. PETA has done a lot of dumb stuff. Some say there are only a few extremist in the group but with as much as they have done they must be mostly extremist. They have actually planned outings to throw blood on people as well as red paint, and that is only the beginning of their eco-terrorist methods.

Answer 8

PETA is the NRA of animal rights' groups. They use scare tactics and shocking stunts to make their point. They are not always wrong, but they do go too far. A famous protest of theirs showed photos of Nazi concentration camps next to chickens on farms, implying that it was the same thing.

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

It is not negative propoganda. It is revealing the other side of PETA which they don't want you to see.
PETA is an organization that feeds on controversy for its survival. Ironically, the bloodier, the better because they cannot get their donor contributions if there is no bloody video to show. Another irony, it's existence is dependent on the industry it supposedly protests. No meat industry, no PETA.

Answer 11

There are extremists in any organization. I commend PETA for taking a stand to prevent cruelty to animals. They just dont talk the talk they do get out on the front lines, taking on whaling ships, trying to save dolphins from tuna nets etc. At least they are trying to make a difference.....
There is an old saying the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step, if we all stood up for our beliefs, stopped wearing furs, stopped eating tuna from companies that kill dolphins, stop buying products from companies that use cruel methods to test their products on helpless animals.

I took the very sad but true story off this about the military dog, because I know the soldier and it was very painful to him, and I wont have others making light of it.

Im not saying Peta is right or wrong, but they are at least bringing animal rights into the media by there extreme tactics.