Jim, I'm vegan and I despise PETA and most vegetarians and vegans here KNOW the truth about PETA.
Listen, there's trolls that have created duplicate ID's of the frequent contributors in the V&V section (copying their avatars AND their user names) and have gone into the Hunting section to post hateful, defamatory remarks to incite anger against vegans. BELIEVE me, these people have nothing better to do - they also come here and post abusive nonsense against us.
Please don't waste your time and please don't retaliate and abuse vegans for this, because that's EXACTLY what these trolls want. BELIEVE me, no vegan in their right minds would go to the Hunting section to put anyone down. Unlike the trolls we can coexist peacefully alongside those that are different than us.
Please trust me on this one. Anytime you see someone in the Hunting section or other Food and Drink sections saying they are vegan and spouting half-brained nonsense, it's almost definitely a troll that is trying to get people to come here and abuse vegans and vegetarians.
I sell dairy and fresh meats to the VP of PETA's New Hampshire chapter.
What a hypocrite.
its a bunch of bs
PETA does not kill animals!! They euthanize! Two completey different things. It's sad, but so many animals are suffering in cages, on the streets, dog fighting, on fur farms, being shark bait, etc. That is why the promote the whole ABC thing, and not buying from breeders or stores, adopt at your local shelter, and animals should not be given as gifts. If you adopt, adopt for love.
Yes PETA members have been arrested for cruelty to animals, 25 felony counts;
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cf...
To be honest, I really don’t know anything about PETA.
I have heard of the organisation of course but their presence seems to be fairly low-key in Australia.
Occasionally will hear snatches of news (normally celebrity type PETA news – think Pamela Anderson) about some campaign of PETA but most of their shenanigans pass me by.
I have always had the vague impression that they were very hard-core (i.e.) the sort of group likely to raid an animal medical testing lab.
I have also always been under the impression that PETA would be supported by vegetarians & vegans.
However, it is only since posting on this Yahoo site, that I have noticed that many vegetarians & vegans are very anti-PETA.
I would love to know more of why this is so. More links relating to why a majority of vegetarians & vegans are against PETA, would be interesting and enlightening for me.
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Its nothing new, we have all read and watched videos about it.
I'm for the other PETA:
People Eating Tasty Animals!
(And we don't save animals to kill them)
I disagree with peta's method in promoting their ways, and disagree with some of them, but I do see their point. Peta euthanizes many animals because they do not believe in the humanity of keeping pets. I see that many pets obviously do not have good lives, but even the ones that have good owners, we can not be sure whether they would rather live in the wild. Peta sees every pet as a cruelty that must be stopped, and to be put out of its misery. For the present, I think that these killings by peta will not help people see their ideas clearly. For animals to have proper ambassadors in the human world, we need to compromise and communicate calmly.
PETA doesn't kill animals you should watch ((I am an animal))
More people come to know about animals from PETA. not you. In this context we should appreciate it. PETA is none of them, but administrated by people like you and me. If you have better capacity, you should improve the PETA, or come with your better activism or organization.
Majority people are meaters outcry over animal cruelty "propaganda" over the unpopularity of PETA nowadays, rather than minority vegetarians not even know the "real' meaning of vegetarianism.
Continue supporting PETA, and improve it, send them the "real" video footages if you have.
Here's the other side of the story:
PETA makes no secret of having to euthanize most of the animals we take in. Although we do not run an adoption facility (we refer most adoptable animals to well-known shelters with a high rate of public traffic), we have managed to place animals in excellent, lifelong homes. For many of the animals we do accept-such as those who are injured, elderly, aggressive, or otherwise unadoptable-we are a "shelter of last resort," offering a humane death to those who would otherwise suffer a slow and painful end.
Unlike "no-kill" shelters, PETA does not refuse animals simply because euthanasia is the only humane option for them. Many of the animals we take in are brought to us because they have been rejected by other facilities. PETA receives calls every week from people who request that we euthanize their animals because they cannot afford to have them euthanized by a vet or because the animals would suffer excessive stress and pain if transported. PETA will not turn its back on these animals simply because they might make our "numbers" look bad.
The best way to save the lives of homeless animals is through spaying and neutering. PETA's mobile spay-and-neuter clinic focuses much of its work in disadvantaged neighborhoods, where we offer free and low-cost surgeries. To date, our clinic has sterilized tens of thousands of animals. With $45, a person could either care for a dog in a "no-kill" shelter for about three days or sterilize one animal, preventing the births of at least eight animals from that animal and her offspring in just one year as well as preventing the births of as many as 67,000 dogs in six years and 420,000 cats in seven years.
The scope of the companion animal overpopulation crisis is truly staggering: Every year, 3 to 4 million of the 6 to 8 million unwanted animals abandoned at animal shelters in the U.S. must be put to death because there are no suitable homes for them. People who are outraged by this deadly epidemic-and we all should be-can easily help by spaying or neutering their animal companions.
Please visit
http://www.HelpingAnimals.com for more information.
Sometimes the most humane option is to put an animal down.