What is PETA's stance on human rights? Are they for forcing sterilisation on humans? (sierious question)?!
(This is a serous question. I know some of the things I mention here look like jokes, but they are not. That is part of the reason I am asking PETA if they really stand for this, and if so, why.)
I can get on board with considering abuse against an animal a serious crime, and a few other things PETA has advised, but a few things PETA has said and done really disturb me. One of those things came to my attention shortly after hearing that PETA stood for equal rights between animals and humans. They sent me an email asking for donations to sterilize dogs and cats. Doesn't this mean forced sterilization, since obviously they'd have one heck of a time proving consent? Would they tolerate this be done to humans too? (And yes, I know there are way too many puppies and kittens to support and feed and find safe homes for, but guess what? The same is true for human babies.
So what exactly is the stance here? For animal favoritism? Or for forced sterilization of humans? Is there someone out there who is not a troll, who can give me the honest scoop on PETA's stances?
Were they serious about marrying animals? (Again this seems like a consent issue, as well as a waste of money, since they are not hung up on our social habits.) What about being against pet ownership? Are they against the idea of ownership, or against having pets? If they are against owning pets, then how do they expect it to work? (Would you supply everything from food to medical payment for the entire lifetime of an animal that was not your pet? If most people wouldn't, then wouldn't that mean even more animals without homes and money and care?) Where do they stand on putting sick animals to sleep? Where do they stand on putting sick humans to sleep? Is it true they want to put bad dogs in doggy prison until they reform? Real info only plz.
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OK you need to learn what the concept of animal rights means. It does not refer to rights in the sense of political freedoms humans experience, it refers to the right to live free from pain and suffering, and is hence referred to as the principle of equal consideration. The idea is that we would not put them through anything we would not put a human through ie surgical sterilisation without anaesthetic- this occurs every day in pig farms when baby male pigs have their testicles cut off to make them more profitable because the sex hormone in male pigs which is released when they become mature affects the meat. The chemical is called aldosterone and human males cannot detect it but females can, and this makes them not want to buy pork. There are alternatives such as chemical injections but the cheapest solution is castration and is very common.
In the same manner they are against owning non-human animals as pets just as they are against owning humans as pets. But most people in the animal rights movement do not agree that this is necessary. They are pro euthanasia (to the point of killing huge numbers of strays every year) but this does not mean they will be for humans. Basically they don't need to have an opinion on the treatment of humans, because they are about the treatment of animals. The principle of equal consideration does not mean you must behave the same way for every species in every case, it just means the same principles should be applied.
Anyway I don't want to sound like I'm defending them because I'm not, I don't support that organisation at all. I just think you have the fundamental concepts mixed up. Try reading some of the philosophers who came up with the ideas which form the foundations of the animal rights movement such as Peter Singer, Tom regan and Gary Francione. Franciones 20 question page (link below) is a good place to start. Francione is anti-peta btw
http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/faqs…
Peta is not a human rights organization so they have no official stance on it. Individual members are free to make up their own minds. Do you really need someone else to tell you how to thin about everything? That's sad
They are for spaying and neutering pets, not humans. (the US has actually done this to people in the past. It's called eugenics, and it's sick)
Marrying animals is a ridiculous concept. I don't know anyone who's for that.
If an animal is too sick, they are for euthanasia. They are NOT OK with putting humans to sleep. No one is, it's illegal. (except maybe with doctor assisted suicide, which is when the patient wants to die, and no one else is making that decision).
Vegan (please correct me if I'm wrong)
Whatever PETA's stance is on anything is irrelevant. The purpose is not for whatever they say it is supposed to be but only to raise more money for PETA and thus perpetuate its very own existence and boost the ever expanding egos of its leaders.
Remember, the one who has the least meaningful to say usually speaks the loudest and PETA is shouting at the top of its voice.