Coming from a vegetarian: PETA SUCKS!?!
I think their orginization is driving people away from veganism & vegetarianism.
They bash on people who own pets. So if I have a dog with a missing leg and arthritis and I saved it frim dying that's bad?
What about see-ing eye dogs? Nope, bad bad according to PETA. No wool either.
PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals. This includes a 2001 donation of $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an FBI-certified "domestic terrorist" group responsible for dozens of firebombs and death threats. During the 1990s, PETA paid $70,200 to an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory. In his sentencing recommendation, a federal prosecutor implicated PETA president Ingrid Newkirk in that crime. And PETA vegetarian campaign coordinator Bruce Friedrich told an animal rights convention in 2001 that "blowing stuff up and smashing windows" is "a great way to bring about animal liberation.
PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, because they support animal-based research that might uncover cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. PETA president Ingrid Newkirk has said that "even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it."
What about rats? Yes they are living animals with feelings but all rats do is harm people in the first place.
They can do the AIDS testing on rats.
PETA also targets young children with horrifing pamphelts. I mean yes it's hypocritical to give a child a cute little stuffed cow and then have the kid eat mcdonalds for dinner.
But still instead of scaring the living crap out of the kid come up with some better way to get kids to be vegan.
A knife through a bunny isn't going to make anybody vegan more give the person nightmares.
I'm a vegetarian myself so no need to rant about how i'm a disgrace to animals.
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I agree. I used to support PETA when I was a young vegetarian who didn't know any better. But once I became a little more mature I realized how stupid they were, and how there were so many better animal rights organizations out there.
vegan
Part of their tactic is to be loud and crazy and in people's faces to get people thinking about the issues, whether they are able to convince people or not. They don't care what people think about them. I think that's admirable.
Coming from an omnivore: I agree. I can respect vegetarians and vegans. I cannot respect PETA..
I feel the same, and I'm a vegetarian too! They just need to think about how they're actually hurting the cause, not helping it.
Yes, I agree.. PeTA sucks.
Vegetarian since birth
I totally agree with you!
no argument here.....