What is the agenda of PETA?!
What is the agenda of PETA?
Now they want ducks and geese to be stopped being raised for foie gras.
What else are we going to raise them for, pancakes with spring onion, cucumber and hoisin?
What about other animals raised for human consumption?
What about our inhuman treatment of cereals, vegetables, pulses, nuts and fruit?
Nature never consented to having its children, and potential children boiled, roasted, fried, grilled or baked.
Nature, in these instances, doesn't even have a voice and that's before we get onto the subject of herbs and deforestation just because 2000 years ago a fraudulent son of a carpenter decided not to join the family business, his final words were rubbish and when he came back from the dead none of his disciples chose to ask him what heaven was like.
Gtting nailed to a tree is one thing but what about the poor tree, these entites produce oxygen for us and how do we treat them?
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Answers: to make money They are all about generating drama and causing a shi*t stink. Unresolved conflicts? What is your agenda? Dude seriously get a hobby, find a boyfriend or buy a B.O.B. Im not sure if you are asking a serious question or not.......but in all seriousness, I'll answer this way:: PETA is for treating all of God's creation humanely, and with respect. If you have to eat another animal, treat it humanely while raising it, and slaughter it humanely as well. In nature, animals eat other animals, thats just how it is.... but no other species in the food chain mistreats others the way humans do. Its abnormal and horrible, and totally not natural. If you really care about the environment and nature...then you'd be a vegan...
-Half of the water used in the U.S. is used for animal agriculture.
-Every year in the US an area the size of Connecticut is lost to topsoil erosion--85% of this erosion is associated with livestock production.
-Livestock already consume half the world's grain, and their numbers are still growing almost exponentially.
-Every kilogram of beef we consume, according to research by the agronomists David Pimental and Robert Goodland, requires around 100,000 litres of water.
-Approximately 1.3 billion cattle populate the earth at any one time. They exist artificially in these vast numbers to satisfy the excessive human demand for the meat and by-products they provide. Their combined weight exceeds that of the entire human population. By sheer numbers, their consequent appetite for the world's resources, have made them a primary cause for the destruction of the environment.
-In the US, feedlot cattle yield one pound of meat for every 16 pounds of feed. It takes an average of 2,500 gallons of water to produce a single pound of meat. According to Newsweek, "The water that goes into a 1,000 pound steer could float a destroyer." In contrast, it takes only 25 gallons of water to produce one pound of wheat. Feeding the average meat-eating American requires 3-1/4 acres of land per year.
-Feeding a person who eats no food derived from animals requires only 1/6 acre per year. - Studies by North Carolina State University estimate that half of the some 2,500 open hog manure cesspools (euphemistically termed "lagoons"), now needed as part of hog productions there, are leaking contaminants such as nitrate--a chemical linked to blue-baby syndrome--into the ground water.
-Worldwide demand for fish, along with advances in fishing methods--sonar, driftnets, floating refrigerated fish packing factories--is bringing ocean species, one after another, to the brink of extinction. In the Nov., '95 edition of Scientific American, Carl Safina writes, "For the past two decades, the fishing industry has had increasingly to face the result of extracting [fish] faster than fish populations [can] reproduce." Research reveals that the intended cure--aquaculture (fish farming)--actually hastens the trend toward fish extinction, while disrupting delicate coastal ecosystems at the same time.
-A scientist, reporting in the industry publication Confinement, calculated in 1976 that the planet's entire petroleum reserves would be exhausted in 13 years if the whole world were to take on the diet and technological methods of farming used in the US.
-If tomorrow people in the US made a radical change away from their meat-centered diets, an area of land the size of all of Texas and most of Oklahoma could be returned to forest.
-It is estimated that livestock production accounts for twice the amount of pollution in the US as that produced by industrial sources.
-Livestock in the US produce 130 times the excrement of the entire US population. Since farm animals today spend much or all of their lives in factory sheds or feedlots, their waste no longer serves to fertilize pastures a little at a time. One poultry researcher, according to United Poultry Concerns literature, explains: "A one-million-hen complex will produce 125 tons of wet manure a day." To responsibly store, disperse, or degrade this amount of animal waste is simply not possible. Much of the waste inevitably is flushed into rivers and streams.
-Methane is one of the four greenhouse gasses that contributes to the environmental trend known as global warming. The 1.3 billion cattle in the world produce one fifth of all the methane emitted into the atmosphere.
-.Agricultural engineers have compared the energy costs of producing poultry, pork and other meats with the energy costs of producing a number of plant foods. It was found that even the least efficient plant food was nearly 10 times as efficient in returning food energy as the most energy efficient animal food.
-Since so much fossil fuel is needed to produce it, beef could be considered a petroleum product. With factory housing, irrigation, trucking, and refrigeration, as well as petrochemical fertilizer production requiring vast amounts of energy, approximately one gallon of gasoline goes into every pound of grain-fed beef.
-The direct and hidden costs of soil erosion and runoff in the US, mostly attributable to cattle and feed crop production, is estimated at $44 billion a year.
- Each pound of feedlot beef can be equated with 35 pounds of eroded topsoil.
-A nationwide switch to a pure vegetarian diet would allow us to cut our oil imports by 60%.
-Compared to a vegan diet, three days of a typical American diet requires as much water as you use for showering all year (assuming you shower every day).
-An acre of land can produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but only 165 pounds of beef.
-In the U.S., 260 million acres of forest have been destroyed for use as agricultural land to support our meat diet (over 1 acre per person).
-Since 1967, the rate of deforestation has been one acre every five seconds.
-Trees are being cut down at an alarming rate in the US, as well as around the world, for meat production. For every one acre cleared for urban development, seven acres are cleared to graze animals or grow feed for them.
http://eattinggreen.com/ Ducks and geese are force fed to enlarge their livers for this, that's why it's cruel. If their livers were taken in their natural state that would be different. Deliberately over feeding an animal to create a human-consumption delicacy is not acceptable.
Your argument is a little childish, yes? WTF
i love PETA and ducks and geese or any animals where NOT i repeat NOT put of this earth so some selfish humans could eat them ummmm i know lets raise some humans,then slaughter them and put them in a curry with blood as sauce i dont think so go get a life instead of agreeing to kill Innocent creature's!!! Ducks and geese should not be raised for food at all.
As for cereals and grains and plants-they have no nervous system,no brain and are therefore incapable of feeling pain in the same way animals can.
PETA is for stopping cruely to animals who do suffer lots of pain and fear before being killed for people to eat. How about ceasing to focus on others' supposed agenda & taking a good hard look in the mirror. Try to spot what shred of conscience you have left. Then go out & do something positive in the world rather than trolling the internet. PETA wants complete and total animal liberation. In other words, no one should have pets, no one should ever eat meat, no one should ever kill an animal; even for survival, and above all want animals to be treated equal to humans. Basically, they're a bunch of loonies. Oh dear oh MY! Poor, poor plants! I am going to go anorexic because I believe all life is sacred....
Oh boy, you are a genius. Did you know that unlike animals, plants do not have feelings? They have no brains, nor any nerves, so they cannot feel pain. And did you know that if you truly feel sorry for plants, you have to stop eating animals as well, because at least six pounds of plants must be killed to produce one pound of meat? Hah hah genius, enjoy your bloody meaty meal.
Long live PETA.