Why is PETA so ridiculous?!

I'm a vegetarian (because of animal rights) and in all honestly I hate PETA.
I love animals but if a pesky little mosquito tries to suck my blood i will happily kill it, and if that makes me a bad vegetarian then that's too bad.
And that ice cream thing is disgusting!
With how they behave and portray themeslves it's hard to believe that they're trying to do anything positive.

I am a vegitarian and I do think peta is rediculous! I dont believe in animal cruelty either but they take it to far. My wife and children are not vegan and I WILL NOT push my lifestyle on them. When my kids become adults they will have the freedom to choose what type of lifestyle they want to live. According to the bible, God created animals for mankind to be the ruler of. But the bible also said to NEVER hold the life of an animal above another human. People that hold the value of animals over humans are sinners. Its ok to love animals and protect them, but what they do is overkill. Im Christian if you cant tell.

I just went on the PETA website, and couldn't find anything relating to breast milk. Can you provide a link?

Edit: Okay...thanks for the link. I thought you meant they were serious. That is just PETA's way of bringing awareness to people. It's like Fox News. They sensationalize things to grab your attention. I don't necessarily agree with their tactics, but at least the issues they bring to light are noble, rather than the Fox News or AM talk radio that forces it's opinions on you.

PETA are extremists. They are fighting the right causes but they take it too far with cruel campaigns and violence. The one credit to their group is the exposure they have brought to those industries. Just keep in mind, they usually pick the worst example of the industry and try to showcase it as if ALL producers work the same way. Do your own research and protest respectively and informatively.

What? They're just trying to make a point about ethics and utter milk VS tit milk. If you think about it ethnically it is a little weird to be drinking cow milk. It's not like anyone's going to go suck their boobies. Instead they're going to buy it in a neat carton of it that's pasteurized and chilled.
There are some of us vegans (if not all) who say that drinking their milk is supporting the veal industry and they're kept pregnant to give milk.
Mosquitos cause diseases, you are correct. They're known to cause deaths in pets who are bitten by them and West Nile in birds. Ghandi said to blow them off, but I'm thinking... NO way!

I don't like PETA very much either, but you're incorrect about your statement relating to cows needing to be milked all the time. I would much rather drink soy milk than breast milk though o.o;

As long as they keep having nude chicks protest they can do whatever the **** they want for all I care.

They just like the attention.

GO VEGAN AND YOU'LL FIND YOUR ANSWERS.

It's not REALLY ridiculous to discourage killing mosquitos. They have as much right to live as any other animal. Sure, kill them if they come after you because they were taking the risk of attacking you and you are defending yourself, but don't kill them when it's unnecessary. Cow milk has the same purpose of human milk which is to feed infants. Cows don't need to be milked any more than humans do, the reason they are is because they are constantly impregnated to produce more milk. Humans are the only animals that drink another species's milk. Milk is full of nutrients to help infants grow when they can't chew or digest hard food. Obviously anyone over the age of one doesn't need milk, and if they do it should be from their mother. People just don't like how forward PETA is about everything. I don't know if I'd say they are ridiculous though.

PETA is not an animal rights/welfare organization. It is a money making group. It's "morality" campaigns are designed to solicit money from a sympathetic public for the sole purpose keeping itself in funds for the continuation of the group and the salaries, oversees junkets etc of its officers who would be jobless otherwise. To some extent, PETA has been involved in what can be classified as corporate extortion where companies are threatened with boycotts and protests if 1) they do not fork out money (read become a corporate sponsor) and/or 2) bend to PETA's demands of being "animal friendly" This makes it appear PETA is actually "doing something for the animals" and bolster it's reputation as an animal rights group and secure more funds.

PETA is against the use of animals in circuses. However one of it's corporate sponsors who also owns an animal circus is spared protest actions and campaigns (found in their website) because of the money the company donates.

If you look at PETA in the context of just another fake group out to make money for itself, they actually make sense.

PETA is extremist, no doubt. They definitely have done and said some questionable things, and I don't know, they do may do more harm than good, but it certainly gets them attention. I suspect some of what they do it to get attention and make points. Either way, I'm not a PETA fan.

For the breast milk thing, as far as I KNOW that was just a campaign. It's a satire. The point isn't to say we should drink human milk. The point is the thought of drinking human milk leaves everyone disgusted, yet the thought of cow's milk doesn't. Human milk is *our* milk whereas cow milk is *cow's* milk. Both milks, however, are ultimately made for mothers to give to their babies. So of course no one would actually suggest us to start drinking and selling human milk (at least I hope not!!).

Whether taking cow's milk actually harms the cow? In factory farming, definitely. They are given shots and such to have them keep producing and their calves are taken away from them. On an old fashioned farm, it could be argued that it doesn't hurt them or anything. I know some people who do that and let the calves still drink the milk and let the mother cow wean off with being to milk at the appropriate time. It's better anyway.

You're the one sounding ridiculous, too. ''Cows need to be milked anyway.'': Quite possibly the funniest comment of the day. The reason why they are able to lactate is because they have been artificially inseminated. They are either pregnant AGAIN or have recently given birth. The milk was supposed to be given to their young. A normal cow's pregnancy is around 285 days or 9 months, just like a human's. A cow doesn't continue to lactate for a whole lifetime,.

If anything is ridiculous, it is a human drinking a completely different species' milk. And how am I supposed to conceive that drinking a completely different species' milk as being a natural thing?

Human: Primates/ Homo sapiens

Cow: Bovinae

If nature did want us to drink cow milk, then why is it that 75% of the world's population is lactose intolerant? Let nature be. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/18…
Studies have found that only populations around the world that herd their own mammal (for meat or production of milk) still remain lactose-tolerant like nomadic people.

''...13 lactose-tolerant populations live side-by-side with lactose-intolerant populations in some parts of Africa and the Middle East.

"The most likely explanation is nomadism," Sherman concluded. All 13 of the populations that can digest dairy yet live in areas that are primarily lactose intolerant were historically migratory groups that moved seasonally, Sherman said. Their nomadism enabled them to find suitable forage for their cattle and to avoid extreme temperatures. "Also, the fact that these groups maintained small herds and kept them moving probably reduced the pathogen transmission rate."

''..adults from Europe can drink milk because their ancestors lived where dairying flourished and passed on gene MUTATIONS that maintain lactase into adulthood. The research, he said, is an example of Darwinian medicine, a new interdisciplinary field of science that takes an evolutionary look at health, and considers why, rather than how, certain conditions or symptoms develop. Sherman, for example, recently investigated why spices are used and why morning sickness occurs.''
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/june…

PETA gets crazy sometimes because everything is sensationalized and they need to keep up in order to grab peoples attention. Is it always right? no. But please remember they are drawing attention to animal welfare, not a lot of other things out there that only want to make profit. Get your facts straight, cows do not NEED to be milked. The milk that you buy at the corner store is really meant for a baby calf. Quite literally, farmers keep cows pregnant in order for them to keep producing milk , and once they go through labor they use that milk for human consumption. Milk also does not help make strong bones, in fact it is the opposite. Milk makes the body very acidic. Our bodies try to balance this out by leaching from our bones. Become informed and please do not rely on commercials and what not , when it comes down to it they are trying to make money. :)

Also, one more tidbit.The average lifespan of a cow is 25 years.. A cow on a dairy farm lives 4 to 5.

The reason cows need to be milked all the time is because their calves are taken away from them. The females are kept to become slaves like the mother and the males are sold for veal- killed at only a few days old in most countries but in the more archaic societies like the US they are legally tethered in boxes for several months where they are kept anaemic to make the meat more valuable when they are finally killed. Cows must produce a calf to be able to produce milk, and current technologies allow them to produce one every 12-18 months instead of every 2 years as is natural.

Also the cows are killed after they become unproductive. Thanks to selective breeding, the use of antibiotics and in some countries hormone injections (the US again); cows produce more milk than they ever would naturally and since they produce more calves they are generating milk year round. This causes them to become unproductive by as little as 5 years of age but they would naturally live for about 20 years. So the sheer numbers of unusable bull calves and unprofitable cows means that these animals must be killed in order for dairy to be economically sustainable.

So Peta may be stupid and corrupt but the point is pretty easy to understand- dairy is a cruel industry which must remain that way in order to provide all the milk for humans to consume and for producing cheese etc. Anybody who is opposed to killing animal for food cannot support this industry.

vegan biologist