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PETA is evil

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#1 ·
PETA ticks me off so much. Some PETA nut called my friend a murdering explicative for buying a betta with a 10 gallon tank kit for her 6 year old non-verbal autistic son since she knows fish can help autistic children. They certainly help me with my autism.
 
#2 ·
I really support PETA and the great work that they do, please don't judge all PETA followers by the comments of this one person. I wholeheartedly support PETA but I have do disagree with the un-called for comments made by that individual, I think getting the betta is a great idea and the fact that they bought a 10 gallon tank kit is definitely something to be praised, sounds like the betta is getting a great home to me:)
 
#7 ·
The sad reality is that while irresponsible pet owners continue to refuse to desex their animals and let them wander and breed at will then euthanasia of perfectly healthy animals will continue to happen because the sad reality is that not all of them are going to find homes no matter how adorable or adoptable they are.

So called no kill shelters are not always a more humane option, large dogs have been kept in crates without being let out for 12 years and have developed such horrible psychological problems that they are deemed not suitable to re-home.

I wish to make one thing quite clear however, just because I support PETA in general does not necessarily mean that I agree with every single thing that they do. However on a whole they save the lives of a lot of animals and work to stop cruel practices which is definitely something I support.
 
#9 · (Edited)
It's actually proven PETA causes more harm than good. I'll continue to put my support towards the ASPCA TRUE animal hero's not liers and murders like PETA. The ASPCA saves more animals than PETA could ever dream of since PETA really never has real rescues only little video's they put together that are more than not doctored.

Also I work at a no kill shelter and we adopt all our dogs out just fine because of the system we have created. We have never had dogs at a shelter for more than 3 months, average is 5 days. PETA just doesn't try because their mission is to eradicate domestic animals. Sad but true.

Plus looking at what PETA adopts out...7 animals in ONE year....that's not HELPING anything. My shelter adopts out over 2,000 animals a year.
 
#10 ·
Well I don't know what the SPCA is like where you are but they are hopeless here, they hardly ever bother to investigate complaints and they only keep cats for a max of 24 hours before euthanasia, dogs they keep up to three days. Some animals are put down on the spot. A kitten was found lost, it had run away from the owners house, the SPCA put it down immediately because they believed it had ring worm, did they bother to get the vet to look at it...... no. The kitten had simply had an allergic reaction to a flea shampoo that the owners had been using when the kitten escaped. Later that day the owners asked the SPCA had they seen or heard anything about their kitten. They came back and gave them the dead cat. The owners were horrified.

Our neighbor worked for them at the time and quit because of the terrible things that were happening that he did not agree with. I believe that the SPCA does a wonderful job in some areas but in our local area they are not all cracked up what they are supposed to be.
 
#11 ·
PETA is really terrible Veggiegirl. I don't think they are as extreme in Australia, but overseas in America they protest everything and try and make laws that would end the existence of domesticated pets.

PETA's goal is to completely wipe out all domesticated animals. At the core of it that is their only goal.

A lot of people are very scared by them as an organisation as they have a lot of backing financially, and a lot of celebrities endorse them.

I feel with an organisation like PETA that you cannot support one part of it, without supporting the other.

Animal welfare is a great cause, animal rights is not.

Also the RSPCA is fairly bad as well here. I have heard/read a lot of not so savoury stories from dog breeders.
 
#12 ·
PETA do stop extremely cruel animal testing and expose companies that do it so that has to be a good thing right?

And they educate schools that still perform extremely cruel dissection practices on rats etc so that they now use online animated dissections again this is surely a good thing?

Also they encourage more humane slaughter methods of animals for human consumption such as CAK with chooks.......

surely all of these actions contribute to less suffering on the animals behalf?

I certainly do not wish to argue with anyone on here over the subject of PETA but as a vegan (a vegan that gave up animal products because of animal welfare issues) I was always lead to believe that PETA did a lot of good as far as animal welfare is concerned? I take it that just as the SPCA in some areas are much better than in others that PETA is the same?

Most of the people I personally know that have a problem with PETA usually only have a negative view of them because PETA protests about the slaughter of animals for human consumption and those people are meat eaters and therefore that is why they have a problem with them.......as a vegan I have been criticized my whole life for believing that an animals life could possibly be equal in value to that of a humans and can't help but feel that some peoples negative opinions of PETA are similar to those that I have endured.........

Perhaps in America and so forth things are different and PETA are not what they make out to be........

Again, I respect all of your opinions so please I wish no disrespect with my posts but wished to share my views
 
#24 ·
Most of the people I personally know that have a problem with PETA usually only have a negative view of them because PETA protests about the slaughter of animals for human consumption and those people are meat eaters and therefore that is why they have a problem with them.......as a vegan I have been criticized my whole life for believing that an animals life could possibly be equal in value to that of a humans and can't help but feel that some peoples negative opinions of PETA are similar to those that I have endured.........
I just thought I would put in that I am vegetarian, not vegan, but I have NEVER liked PETA. I stopped eating meat because I watched a documentary on slaughterhouses, and as much as I wish I did, I can't stand the taste of fish..
I'm sure not everyone associated with PETA is a jerk but when they have people going around throwing "blood" on people for eating meat, or wearing fur. Being a jerk like that won't get people to see your side or their side. It will only make the whole of the group look like a huge group inconsiderate jerks. If they were truly set in their cause then they would find better ways to prove it.
Way before our "concrete jungles" people hunted, ate meat, and wore the furs... it's...what is it called...oh yeah, SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. Just because we have thumbs doesn't mean we aren't animals....

I don't hate those who eat meat. So what. Its a personal choice. Not everyone likes to eat rabbit food all day.. :)
 
#14 ·
PETA has the right idea. :I but they go about it all wrong. i was watching videos they take online, and learned that, not only do they over-exaggerate things a lot(like filming when things LOOK the worst, but may not be), but they freaked out over bettas being shipped in the tiny bags. :I c'mon... they HAVE to be shipped like that. it reduces their stress, and they can't be shipped in bigger bags filled with others like other fish can be. AND they're put in cups right away when they reach the stores.

so... i don't support PETA. i agree with what they're trying to do(end animal cruelty), but i don't support what they do.
 
#17 ·
I agree with what you are saying Luimeril but I do have to add one thing about them over reacting towards the small bags that bettas are shipped in..... well I do not know if all bettas are shipped in the same sized bags but here the bags are the size of your average playing card and sometimes the water in the bags does not even fully cover the betta......
 
#18 ·
the bags i saw at my local pet store were just big enough to let the betta move a little. they were maybe a few inches long, and had just enough water to cover the betta no matter how the bag turned. even when i've gotten bettas in the mail from friends, it was a small bag with enough water to cover him/her no matter how the bag turned. they're only in the mail for a few days, though, so it's not too stressful on them. 8U
 
#20 ·
xshainax unless you have actually been a PETA member in the past I do not believe that you have the right to make that assumption about 99% of PETA member not practicing what they preach, no doubt as you say some of them are hypocrites that do not practice what they preach but that does not mean that a majority of them are like that........... some PETA members agree on the whole with PETA's aims but it does not mean that they believe everything PETA do is right.
 
#21 ·
I simply refuse to to support any organization or group that kills more than it saves. Even if they didn't have those statistics, I feel they spend too much on their public appearance and not enough on the animals. That's my opinion at least.

Any donation toward ASPCA or a local rescue no matter how small can make a difference for some animal somewhere whether its a meal or even a warm place to sleep.
 
#23 · (Edited)
+1

My mother knew one of the uppers of PETA HE IS A JERK, he wanted my mother to KILL OUR PET DOG because she was a doberman pincher. Not because she was mean but BECAUSE OF HER BREED. They support BSL laws as well which will ban over 100 dog breeds if passed. PETTA is all talk and no action, all protest lots of blood, and in the end the animals pay. They are no good and they brainwash so many people it's truly sad. So many people who have no idea what they are supporting. They think they are supporting animal rights, in reality PETA stands for destroying all domestic animals. The presidant herself has said this.

Also I find it funny you are upset about your ASPCA putting animals to sleep when PETA puts more healthy animals to sleep and hardly adopts out any. One year they only adopted out 7 animals. The ASPCA is looking like saints compared to that. PETA puts down over 1,000 at one facility every year. They adopt out an average of 10. PETA's shelter is not set up for caring for animals. Have you seen them? It's disgusting, it's death row.

Let's hear what the leaders of PETA have to say about pets of any kind. 'weeding out these weak pathetic creatures?" this doesn't sound like a nation of animal lovers, more like Hitler and his Third Rich.

http://purebredcatbreedrescue.org/animal_rights.htm

http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/24/documents-peta-kills-more-than-95-percent-of-pets-in-its-care/

Also PETA kills the animals they get within 24 hours of having them walk in through the front door....so really...no too helpful. This artical is very enlightening.
 
#25 ·
If PETA wants to be taken seriously they need to learn to control their fanatics. There may be decent people in PETA but the world will never know as the idiots in the front with the paint buckets won't shut up.

If I want to get persecuted for my views on certain things I will travel back in time to The Inquisition. That summons up how I feel about PETA.
 
#27 ·
and their games, aimed to children, make ME sick. i played their Mario spoof and their Pokemon spoof. both were disgusting, and i refused to let my 9 year old niece LOOK at them. i played their Cooking Mama spoof too, and that one was just horrid. :I

there are easier ways to get people to see their views, rather than the things they do. ruining fur and leather coats, sending mostly nude ladies out to protest things.... 8I nah.
 
#29 ·
Can we stop arguing over the organization!? There are many other threads which have gotten out of hand because of something as powerful as the word "peta". There are two members in this thread from Australia where the organization seems to be better than SPCA. This is called worldview. A certain set of rules, ideologies and customs which are totally different than in USA and even Canada, where I am from. So I vote the members in this thread just agree to disagree on this matter. Nobody is proving anything by arguing.
 
#31 ·
I thought that was the point of this thread. It's a thread about PETA. Better to get it out here then let it spill over into other threads.
 
#32 ·
Yeah, PETA had the audacity to call my friend a murdering c-word because she bought a betta and 10 gallon kit for her autistic child
 
#33 ·
PETA Is too extreme for me. I think the cause is nobel but their tactics (like described above) remind me of Fred Phelps and I think their views are too extreme as well.
 
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