Why do you hate Peta?

[Amber]

Please, don't hurt me! [j/k] All I ask of is a simple explanation from your veiw.

Just wondering because I read it in a post here how some of you guys dislike peta. And I thought Peta helped animals...? yes? no?

possibly?

[moosmom]

I don't like PETA because they are dishonest and they believe in euthanizing animals rather than let people adopt them as pets.

I was involved in a peaceful protest involving a cat killer in Connecticut who tortured and killed her roommate's cat. It WAS peaceful until a member of PETA assaulted one of the defendants. That's the other reason.

[mugsy]

PETA is, if you look at it closely enough, nothing short of a terrorist organization.

1. They dress up in chicken suits and wait on the sidewalks for the elementary kids to get out of school and then hand them flyers with butchered chickens on them, basically terrorizing them. I know this happens because it happened at the elementary school across from the middle school where I teach.

2. They take dogs from shelters and kill them themselves. Rather than trying to find places for them to go, they just kill them. They say it's more humane than gassing....that may be true, but no attempt is made to find rescues or forever homes for them. And 2 PETA higher ups are being prosecuted for dumping dogs' bodies in dumpsters.

3. They give a bad name to people who genuinely love and care about animals. I have people who think I'm a wacko because I do dog rescue and their reasoning is that PETA is whacked out, so all animal rights people are whacked out.

4. They go out and spray paint women's fur coats...like that solves anything...the animal is already dead...go protest at the mink farms! GEEZ....doesn't take rocket science to figure that out.

I could go on, but, I would be here for days....

[Lady's Human]

One:

http://www.petoftheday.com/talk/show...threadid=81797

Two:

They have been linked to the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front, two enviro-terrorist groups.

Three:

They are sensationalist and have no consience about what they do, as long as it generates publicity. For example, handing out pamphlets at children's events calling the children's mother killers for serving them meat, their advertisement using Rudy Guiliani on the billboard asking "Got Cancer" , and other thoughtless BS campaigns.

Four:

They are absolutists. They want all animals living in the wild, not as pets, farm animals, or in any other way dependent on a human.

Five:

They appear on the surface to be a genuine charity to help animals, thus reducing the gifts to shelters and other true animal charities.

I could go on further, but those are the main reasons.

[mugsy]

OH yeah....and the billboard they put up here in Fort Wayne with a fat little kid eating a hamburger with the caption:

Letting your child eat meat is child abuse.

It didn't last long....lol

[joycenalex]

Ohio State University had an absolutely brilliant research-teaching vet neurologist on staff-Dr Podell. Dr Podells' basic and published research into stopping canine seizures by use of rectal valium is the reason my dog, alex the wonder dog is alive today. without that research, alex would have been put to sleep almost 8 years ago, his seizures, when they start are almost uncontrollable, with the rectal valium, the seizures stop. by using this protocol, my vet and the pharmacist has the authority to give me the script to get a legally controlled substance.( i had the great pleasure of telling Dr Podell to his face thank you, without you, alex, my sweet dog, would be gone.still makes me teary to think about that day. his work saved alexs' life ). PETA decided that his other research project was inhumane. They hounded OSU to fire him, didn't work there, but he quit when the PETA people showed up at his kids' school, he left columbus, left the state and is in private practice now, hopefully saving one dog at a time, instead of thousands. the valium protocol has been adapted for human seizure control, and the research project that Dr Podell was working on when he was hounded? tramission of HIV with the usage of crystal meth..ever hear of crystal meth? the virus' that infect HIV appear to be stronger while using that drug, that work might have been useful in limiting a new outbreak of medication resistant HIV, but who knows? the research into it isn't being done now, SO HUMANS ARE DYING BECAUSE OF THOSE PETA MORONS STOPPING MEDICAL RESEARCH (i'll stop shouting now) . those people cost society dearly in their stupid behavior.
i don't hate PETA, but they cost us, and they cost us dearly.

[dukedogsmom]

All of what they said. I think PETA is way too anal in their way of going about things.

[LeahMM]

Much like Green Peace, way too radical for me.

[Amber]

Are you guys !@#$%^&* serious?!

....wow, thanks for sorting that out for me. I didn't realise they did that! What really got me was how they took dogs, and killed them! wow!

[lady_zana]

Originally posted by mugsy



4. They go out and spray paint women's fur coats...like that solves anything...the animal is already dead...go protest at the mink farms! GEEZ....doesn't take rocket science to figure that out.

EXACTLY!! How is targeting one woman helping to stop fur industry? A woman may only buy one mink in her life; mink farms churn out pelts - they're the ones to go after!!

[smokey the elder]

PETA comes across as hypocritical to me. Also, in my opinion, they are scientifically illiterate. The hypocrisy comes in the fact that I'm sure all of them have used a medicine that had to be first tested on animals.

They also act like terrorists sometimes.

[mugsy]

Originally posted by smokey the elder
PETA comes across as hypocritical to me. Also, in my opinion, they are scientifically illiterate. The hypocrisy comes in the fact that I'm sure all of them have used a medicine that had to be first tested on animals.

They also act like terrorists sometimes.

My sentiments exactly.

[Pit Chick]

They put on a front about caring for ALL animals, but because of Ingrid Newkirks personal hatred towards Pit Bulls, PETA is all for the bannishment of the breed. Their twisted justification for this is that it would stop the cruel treatment of the breed by those who use them for fighting, abuse them, use them as a trendy ego boosters, etc. Ok, so Pit Bulls become extinct and another breed takes it's place as the dog de'jore, then what?

They send some good messages about certain issues and bring to light some things the general public wouldn't know about otherwise, but their approach for a lot of things is way too extreme and out of line. I don't agree with all animal testing and feel that for the really necessary stuff they could probably use death row inmates instead (what better way to find out how a medication will help or hender a human than testing it on another human ).

[smokey the elder]

While testing death row inmates is tempting, there are many reasons why they are not suitable "volunteers". These have to do with the science of drug development.

I think using animals for cosmetics testing is out of bounds; these are not as high a priority.

Also, it's in the best interest of the industry to minimize animal testing. One of the reasons meds are so pricey is that animal testing is expensive!

(Sorry, didn't mean to hijack. )

[Lady's Human]

The group that has "freed" testing animals in labs is the animal liberation front, ALF, that has been tied on numerous occasions to PETA.

PETA did, however, try to get March of Dimes shut down as they support scientific studies on birth defects that use animal testing. While there are things that animal testing should not be used for (cosmetics especially) there are some research projects that could not happen without animal testing, including most of the research in cures for cancer.