Do you support PETA? Why or why not?!
They shamelessly market to children, just like the hunting industry , and tell them their parents are evil for eating meat and I don't agree with it anymore than putting a weapon into the hands of a child and teaching them to kill.I believe their message has been lost in translation and what could have been an incredibly strong driving force for animal rights and vegan/vegetarianism is instead a laughing stock.
I also dislike when omnivores automatically associate vegetarians and vegans and animal rights activists with PETA. There is such a thing as someone who believes in veggie/veganism and animal rights and opposes PETA, such as myself.
What is everyone elses take on the subject?
Answers:
I support them.
They DO save animals from horrific environments of abuse,
and many will have to be euthanized because no one wants them.
That's true for ANY animal rights or animal welfare organization.
Of course they market to children-
their parents sure aren't going to tell them that they're eating the carcasses of their dead tortured animal friends.
Omnivores thinking vegetarianism or veganism is synonymous with PETA is their own damn stupidity, not yours or mine.
They're a bit too conservative for me.
I prefer the ALF and other direct-action groups.
Absolutely not.
I consider PETA to be similar to the Church of Scientology. They're both essentially well-funded and influential cults, except the Church of Scientology has never (to my knowlege) committed acts of violence and terrorism.
I was still on the peta mailing list until last week. There is a demo here in melbourne today and they asked us to nude up for it. FFS. It is just so pathetic. Why can't they do anything without having people take their clothes off? Are they not aware there are other marketing strategies?
no, i do not support hem for the reasons you have stated. good for you for being wiser than their brainwashing schemes.
I don't support them because of their offensive propaganda and the way they objectify women.
I dislike them for all the reasons you've stated, as well as their gross sexism toward women in their ad campaigns.
I'm vegan and I despise Peta. I think it's important for veg*ns to distance themselves from Peta because, as you say, many people believe them to be representative of veg*ns, and to speak for them.
In fact, of course, most of the world's veg*ns have never heard of Peta. They certainly don't speak for or represent vegans or vegetarians; there were, of course, vegans and vegetarians thousands of years before Peta was formed. Heck I was a vegetarian myself 12 years before Peta was formed...
I agree with everything you cite as reasons to dislike Peta. But if had to pick out just three things I most despise about them, I'd say their disgraceful response to the Greyhound bus murder a couple of years ago, their sexism and the exploitation of women in their propaganda, and the hypocrisy of two of their leaders who, dependent on animal-tested and -derived insulin for their own survival, seek to deny other people the same access to animal-tested life-saving drugs
