How can anyone be sure that PETA didn't "stage" any or all of their videos?!
Answers: im sure they do
1. lol.
2. because...they would torture lots of animals on video tape to frame certain companies? ...oook.
3. all the companies that were caught & have admitted wrongdoing (mostly in the form of "they're contracted with us, WE don't condone that...") were lying to support peta's cause?
p.s. vegetarianism has nothing to do with peta.
No one can.
If you know what some of these places are capable of doing (factory farms, slaughter houses, etc), it wouldn't be an inaccurate depiction however.
Trust me even if they staged it, it does represent what happens in real life anyway. Factory farms and slaughter houses are one of the worst things today. Each animals are murdered and tortured their whole life in their own way.
Male baby chicks who don't get born into broiler factories (Factories that are made for male chickens), will be grinded alive. That is 200,000 baby male chicks a day. 95% of all are meat are from factory farms, only 5% of it is organic, (Organic: humane way of raising animals without drugs). People don't realize how many people there are in the world 6 billion!....
To support this number of people. billions of common farm animals die a year.(Just 800 million chickens are inhumanly killed year just in KFC.....Kentucky Fried Cruelty) They're life revolves around being mass produced(Female chickens, will get starved to produce more eggs, for weeks), Mass tortured (Animals staying in filthy enviroments their whole life etc., and then mass slaughtered.
You have a point, but I think their depictions are rather accurate. How else are you going to get realistic footage inside of a slaughterhouse that these companies rather keep consumers blissfully ignorant about?
In addition, Peta works hard to expose the truth about the conditions of animals and slaughterhouses because what they can legally do is close to about nil. You see, these practices are often legal so Peta can't do much other than to educate people. I do think some of their stuff might be biased and over the top, but I don't think they stage it or make it up. I think it's all real footage and real events, though carefully edited to promote their cause. I dont think the majority of slaughterhouse workers abuse animals, but some do and Peta often documents their cruelty.
I believe Peta and vegetarians know much more about meat and the meat industry than the typical meat eater. Most people take eating meat for granted and have not questioned it, therefore not exposed themselves to the reality of the industry.
I wouldn't be surprised if they did. I firmly believe that PETA does more harm than good for the rest of the vegetarians. I like their recipes, but that's about it.
no, i cannot be sure..but i HIGHLY doubt they would stage&fake the whole thing. it would make no sence at all.
how can YOU be sure your McDonald's burger is really beef? lol..it's the LOWEST of all meat,(if it's even meat. my guess is that they make those things out of human waste if you know what i mean..SICK.), and if you knew what was in those things, you wouldn't eat them.. if you care for your body that is.
either way, they STILL DIE. meat is still dead animal's flesh..DISGUSTING. no matter how the meat got there, with a "happy" or torturous murder(because meat IS murder..), it is still what it is..dead animal loaded with cholesterol, the bad kind of fats, tons of calories, and is linked with colon cancer, heart disease and high bad cholesterol, etc...SO, NO THANK YOU.=]]]. xxoxoxo
I guess none of us can know that for sure. Funny thing is that as devastated as I would feel to be tricked that way, I'd be extremely glad to know that animals were truly not being tortured that way. But realistically, as hard as it was for me to believe the videos when I first saw them, I think it's more likely that they are real rather than staged.
I couldn't say for sure that they haven't staged any of the scenarios in their videos, but I would think it's highly unlikely. That sort of thing would eventually get leaked as everything does.
I have always wondered though how the investigators can stand by and watch the horrible things I've seen in those videos, but I guess that's their job.
You can't now.
Specially in one of there animal testing videos they glued an old serial connection port to a cats head. They were later caught out about this. Didn't they know people use USB ports nowadays.
I agree that PETA is an unreliable source of information. However, videos like the ones that PETA shows have been recorded by other animal welfare groups and individuals. In addition, I have read compliations of first-hand accounts from slaughterhouse and farm workers and former workers. (Like the book Slaughterhouse written by a woman who works for HFA, not PETA).
The speeds they have to maintain are not just bad for the animals, but for the workers as well. There are recorded statistics that indicate that slaughterhouse workers are far more likely to develop carpal tunnel and depression, have a significantly higher domestic violence rate as compared to the general public, and suffer from a very high at-work injury and death rate. A lot of these workers have come out against the industry and also spoken about the conditions for the animals. These worker often don't give a crap about the animals, so they wouldn't have much of a reason to lie about how they were treated.
Also it wouldn't make much sense. If it was all fake, why would anyone have been outraged in the first place?
im sorry. I just don't trust PETA. I signed up for the free vegetarian starters kit and got a freakin' 4 pg magazine that didn't help me at all.
I can do better by myself.
I'm not sure that they have, but it is a possibility since they have admitted in the past that a few (keyword: few, in case some of you misquote me) people in the higher ranks told some newcomers to go and kill some animals. For what reason, I don't know. They were even caught by news teams dumping animals in a dumpster because they said that they didn't have the resources to adopt them out. I'm not saying that PETA is a fraud because I do believe that lots of the things they do is very good and I'm not saying that they are all bad, but I do believe that a few of them aren't there for the right reasons, which is very confusing and makes you wonder. To answer your question though, only God and the people that did it (if they did) know the truth.
maybe we didnt really land on the moon either! its all a hoax and their all out to get me...
Can any of us be sure about anything of this earth. God knows the truth. I believe PETA has brought enough truth out in the open, to trust most of what they say. But that's just my opinion. I've seen some of the videos, as much as I could stand to watch, and I don't see how anyone would purposely stage something like that...for what? what could they possibly have to gain. I thought they were basically for animal rights. A "60 minutes" for animals, so to speak.
Well, i visit beef and dairy farms every week and i can tell you for sure that many abhorant practices exist even on the best livestock farms.
I don't care what PETA say, they are just one of many organisations and sources of information.
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I think it is very plausable that they could stage some of their videos to sensationalize their cause. I am not sure of all, bust some are I am sure.
However, I agree that they probably ar not too far off of target with the whole cruelty thing, especially with chickens.
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I'm not sure that you don't hula dance every friday afternon with the invisible pink leprechaun hiding in my left nostril, but I seriously doubt that PETA bought slaughterhouses and tortured animals because they wanted to bring awareness to the issue. Why would they have to?
Yes, they do and mainly show the "gore" of 3rd world countries whose have little or no standards of inspection. Also, during Katrina, PETA rescued dogs for the camera and then killed them "off camera" when their pitiful small shelters became "full".
As one of our contributors said, "PETA is a group of domestic terrorists"
The only one I watched lately was the one with Alicia Silverstone. After watching it several times, my conclusion is that is was definitely staged.
I have seen a video from a slaughter house that wasn't produced by an animal rights group. A bunch of guys with sledge hammers were smacking pigs on the head.
A non-vegetarian friend of mine was studying for a PhD and he needed animal tissues for some kind of research. He got them from a slaughterhouse, and he says he saw live cows getting their abdomens cut open with chain saws. This was not in a third world country; this was in the USA. He said he briefly considered becoming vegetarian after seeing that.
I have mixed feelings about PETA, but it's probably not too hard to find disturbing scenes of animal cruelty without staging it.