What do you think of PETA and the like?

[SS-18 ICBM]

All they do are publicity campaigns. I'd respect them more if they worked with government officials, instead of just looking for attention.

 

[Stolen Rutters]

"animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment."

I am philosophically and morally opposed to what PETA means by this statement.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Not just philisophically but also morally!

Care to explain what it is about murdering animals for your own benefit that you find morally repulsive?

I guess I didn't explain myself.
I eat meat and I hunt. I wear leather jackets. I use the cheap shampoo. I watched Cats and Dogs in the movies.

The full quote:
"Supporters of the animal rights movement believe that animals are not ours to use for food, clothing, entertainment, or experimentation, while supporters of the animal welfare movement believe that animals can be used for those purposes as long as “humane” guidelines are followed"

I do not support animal rights, because if I did, I could not hunt, eat meat, wear animal skin, own pets, or use most cosmetic products (except the over priced scented stuff at certain APPROVED stores).

I only support animal welfare, and humane working conditions for everyone in commerce and industry, whether human or not. These people go too far.

 

[Narz]

I liked it better when you were a laid-back hippie type, not as part of the "death to America" chanting crowd.

This country has it's merits certainly but lets not lie to ourselves and pretend we haven't funded terrorists, overthrew elections. installed dictators not to mention our appalling environmental standards ("if China won't do it, why should we have to?" goes the insane rhetoric).

I'm only laid back about this that are frivolous.

 

[LightFang]

@Narz: Elections are fixed and people are overthrown.

 

[Shaihulud]

They have the right thought, we should be treating the animals we eat or skin in a more humane manner. Their wierd campaign to tell people that though, is doing more harm than good.

 

[dwaxe]

If we let natural selection take it's normal course, I'm pretty sure that most animals would be dead by now. The animals should be thanking us that we only take a few of their loved ones to experiment on and to help advance medicine.

The rest of the stuff the PETA does?

Sure, I'm against mink coats, but eating meat is just too good.

 

[Ecofarm]

I hate PETA, and I reserve the use of that word for very few cases.

Their sensationalism only hurts the genuine efforts of vegetarians and animal rights activists.

I think they target kids and stupid people with their grotesue and shocking photo displays at every Earth-Friendly Event. That method of emotional recruitment only affects the most mentally ineffectual portions of our population and turns thinking people off. It's like they are trying to turn the movement into one big emotional response, while there are scientific and rational reasons to oppose industrial meat that go unannounced by these attention seekers.

ELF should burn PETA offices.

 

[Mise]

"Supporters of the animal rights movement believe that animals are not ours to use for food, clothing, entertainment, or experimentation, while supporters of the animal welfare movement believe that animals can be used for those purposes as long as “humane” guidelines are followed"

Just for the record, I don't believe that animals are ours to use for food, clothing, entertainment, or experimentation.

 

[rkade8583]

Let me put it to you this way, as a premature baby with my own foundation (I swear to god, look up Ryan Klein and you'll find it. I don't know how it happened but I'm claiming it since that IS my name) if I ever met a PETA fanatic, I would talk with them. If they charged that March of Dimes was bad after hearing my end of the story, I would tell them to leave before I knocked their head clean off.

Sure it's wordy but my own prejudices will no longer rob me of my common sense. I hate PETA personally because they hate the March of Dimes.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Technically chicken farms are death camps. Just not human death camps.

Exactly, so making reference to Holocaust death camps when talking about chicken farms isn't very logical. I mean, the Nazi's didn't exactly butcher the Jews to feed the masses.

 

[holy king]

Exactly, so making reference to Holocaust death camps when talking about chicken farms isn't very logical. I mean, the Nazi's didn't exactly butcher the Jews to feed the masses.

and they didnt exactly butcher chickens but humans....

 

[Patroklos]

Technically chicken farms are death camps. Just not human death camps.

Nah, I prefer to think of them as birth camps. It just so happens that they die there too

 

[I'm Cleo!]

I . . . agree with . . . Ecofarm (!?):

Their sensationalism only hurts the genuine efforts of vegetarians and animal rights activists.

I think they target kids and stupid people with their grotesue and shocking photo displays at every Earth-Friendly Event. That method of emotional recruitment only affects the most mentally ineffectual portions of our population and turns thinking people off. It's like they are trying to turn the movement into one big emotional response, while there are scientific and rational reasons to oppose industrial meat that go unannounced by these attention seekers.

(What's that in the air outside my window? Is that a pig?)

Cleo

 

[Masquerouge]

On one hand, I'm quite glad our society has become so sophisticated that issues such as whether or not animals have rights can monopolize a fair share of our time.
On the other hand, it kinda annoys me that we put in the same bag things we've done for thousands of year (raising cattle, eating animals, using leather products) and the abuses we see nowadays.
There is a middle ground.

 

[Swedishguy]

On the other hand, it kinda annoys me that we put in the same bag things we've done for thousands of year (raising cattle, eating animals, using leather products) and the abuses we see nowadays.

A tradition being around for thousands of years doesn't make it better. Prayer has been around for thousands of years and prayer doesn't make any sense at all.

 

[warpus]

They don't have enough media exposure for me to know enough about PETA to care.

I know they want to protect animals, I've heard that they're a bit extreme at times, but I just don't care enough to form my own opinion of their activities.

 

[pau17]

A group like this harassed a bunch of academic researchers in my town. They went around to the people's homes with a trailer that had a giant monitor showing animal abuse (obviously it couldn't have been from the actual people in question, it was just generic footage), and they distributed inflammatory pamphlets saying things like "X is a sadistic killer who loves to torture animals," and statements that misrepresented the research being done, distributing them in a several-hundred-yard radius on cars in the neighborhood, also writing "X is a killer" with the person's address with chalk on sidewalks everywhere. They picketed outside the researcher's houses and took pictures of anyone who came out, then posted them online with taunting comments.

It didn't make me sympathetic to them; they came off as more loony and annoying than genuine and intelligent.

 

[classical_hero]

the chicks are hot thou.... and i will love to bring them to Morton's for dinner....

That is one thing that they do right.

Here is an example.

 

[Ecofarm]

I'd rather she go nekked too.

I take everything I said back. I fully support PETA!

Spoiler :

j/k of course. But DAMN she's awesome.

 

[Sharwood]

If she'd rather go naked than wear fur, does that mean she shaves?