PETA

[Regulus]

Okay, so first of all, if you don't know already, this is PETA.

[quote]People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) (stylized PeTA) is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president. A non-profit corporation with 300 employees and two million members and supporters, it claims to be the largest animal rights group in the world. Its slogan is "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment."[/quote]

To be perfectly honest, I never really liked them to begin with. They have many annoying advertisements, and most of which are too 'inappropriate' for me to even be able to post here. Here's one of their less offensive ads:



So that's basically what they do. They literally oppose our 'use' of animals in every form.

Now, that in itself is kinda up for debate, because I view that mainly as being just a part of the circle of life and all.

But that's actually not where I'm going with this.

A few days ago, I was browsing the internet, and I came across this. Before clicking the link, please beware that what you're about to see is very graphic. There are pictures of dead animals -> http://imgur.com/gallery/q5awp

When I first saw that, I didn't know what to think. Why would an animal rights activist group be killing so many animals? Is that even what was actually happening?

It turns out that part of PETA's philosophy is that we should kill animals, instead of making them suffer for our needs.

Yet, nowhere on their website did it ever say that.

Now, since then, there's apparently been a whole lot of commotion going on. I tried to look into it as best as I could, and, in a nutshell, what I found appears to be true.

http://www.ibtimes.com/peta-responds-an ... ve-1175469

Then, there's this:

http://features.peta.org/petasaves/

To some extent, I can understand the necessity of the situation. There are many more cats and dogs in the world than could ever be adopted, so naturally, this is what is inevitable.

In fact, the overpopulation of outdoor cats is upsetting the balance of the ecosystem in some places, because they kill birds and squirrels and such. There is, no doubt, more to the story than that.

Yet, what's surprising is that it's an animal rights group doing this. All of that money that they get from donations isn't going towards helping the situation.

It's a scam. As many of us here are animal lovers, I figured this was worth sharing.

[Carl]

My brother was talking about this last night. I didn't read all of the links so I don't know if one of them mentioned this, but apparently most of the animals they adopt are euthanized on the same day as they get them. It's sick that they don't even try to help them and simply go out of their way to kill them.

[Woeler]

Ok so there are animal caretakers, there are animal lovers, there are animal obessors, there are animal freaks, there are totally socially and politically blind animal nuts, and then, on top of the list is there is PETA.

Their campaigns are disturbing, their ideas are disturbing and their members are disturbing. They are almost as obsessed with animals as Hitler was with Aryans.

We're omnivores. Deal with it.

[Regulus]

[quote="Woeler"]We're omnivores. Deal with it.[/quote]

That's arguable, because the human digestive system is far more similar to a herbivore than a carnivore. Although, I am inclined to agree.

As long as the cow I ate wasn't locked up in a cage for its whole life, I have no problem eating it.

Killing animals for the purpose of acquiring resources is far more ethical than killing animals so that their resources cannot be acquired. PETA's logic so far backwards it's well beyond the threshold of absurdity.

[DGFone]

[quote="Regulus"]
Killing animals for the purpose of acquiring resources is far more ethical than killing animals so that their resources cannot be acquired. PETA's logic so far backwards it's well beyond the threshold of absurdity.[/quote]

Not to mention the herds and herds of meat cows that wander around freely my local hills where I like to run. There's a reason they made commercials about "happy cows come from California". (I know those are milk commercials, but go with it). These cows have a very good life, and if I can make a guess, they just about have it like paradise here. And besides: cows that move around make better meat.

At the end of the day, cows + this = VERY GOOD STEAK.

[Woeler]

I don't really care where my meat comes from. As long as I can eat it I'm fine with it. People who think that it's possible to live in a world in which all eatable animals are treated with care an love have certainly never heard of the concept ''world economy'' and how to keep it going.

[Ninaroja]

One of their campaigns compared killing chickens to the Holocaust.

Sorry, no.