What IS so bad about PETA?

[Riley]

Originally posted by Curval
I pay for their habitat with my licenses fees, the tax from the ammo I buy, and the 5 billion forms I have to fill out.

ROFLMAO....

I'm sure the poor furry animals appreciate your donation.

"I'm so sick of this "ain't humanity great" bull***t. We're a virus in shoes, people. That's all we are."    - Bill Hicks, comedian

[Elfie]

Originally posted by wombatt
LOL there poor dogs would not last too long i think.

I dont think a dog could survive on a vegetable only diet. When choosing a commercial dogfood at least 2 of the first 5 ingredients *should* be a meat or meat byproduct. Dogs were meant to eat meat. Their digestive systems are designed for it. Making a dog eat veggies only is like making a cow eat meat only.

[weaselsan]

What is so bad about PETA? Let me count the ways......Well the main thing is they Terrorize very young children. Some as young as 4 or 5 with comic books depicting "Mommy slashing Bunny Rabbit with a demented look on her face. They are the demented ones. I hope some of their stunts backfire and they get their sorry prettythange$ sued into oblivion.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by weaselsan
What is so bad about PETA? Let me count the ways......Well the main thing is they Terrorize very young children. Some as young as 4 or 5 with comic books depicting "Mommy slashing Bunny Rabbit with a demented look on her face. They are the demented ones. I hope some of their stunts backfire and they get their sorry prettythange$ sued into oblivion.

I think it was in miniapolis or something they got alot of bad press because of a Santa poster on a billboard.

They had some medial thing that said milk consumption leads to impidancey and a picture of sant with a caption saying "sorry kids, Santa isn't coming this year" or somthing to that end.

EDIT:

Here it is:
http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2003/12/17/peta_santa_cant_come_this_year/

[Elfie]

Out of touch with reality, like suggesting wildlife exists because you buy a gun license and pay taxes on ammunition? That kind of out of touch with reality?

Thats not out of touch with reality here in the USA. The funds for wildlife management come soley from licsence fees and taxes on guns, ammunition and gear. (Can include fishing liscenses and taxes on tackle as well)

I dont know of a single animal rights orginazation that spends even a single penny on habitat improvement projects or on land to set aside specifically so wildlife can exist.

Even though I havent hunted or fished in several years now I still buy a small game/fishing liscense every year just to help support the Colorado Division of Wildlife. How many animal rights activists can say the same thing?

[tapakeg]

I will donate (and do) donate to the SPCA  way before I donate to another organization.  I do donate to red cross,  etc,  but the bulk goes to SPCA.  

Tapakeg

[Ozark]

Originally posted by Furball
In an organisation of 800,000 you are bound to get some extremists, but i bet the vast majority are decent.  Sounds like the whole thing has been tainted by the actions of a few.

That's how I see online sims. Just the numbers are different.

[Furball]

Originally posted by JB73
What IS so bad about PETA?

 
sums up my thoughts

furby.. nothing against you, just not supporting peta, you were the one asking why they so bad.

As i said, judging by their mission statement, it seems a noble cause.  I only know a few of their campaigns, why i asked what is so bad about them to get the kind of abuse they get on this forum. An organisation that tries to stop the un-necessary abuse of animals is a good thing.

If you look at it from their perspective, they value an animal's life just as highly as a human being's... so violent protests is kind of justified because the treatment animal's receive... not saying i agree with it, just saying i can understand their perspective.

It seems that the organisation has a good intention, just goes completely about it the wrong way.

[Drunky]

I think that all PETA member should be shot.

And promptly bbq'ed and eaten with potato salad, cole slaw, lots and lots of bbq sauce and beer.

That will teach them to fxck with us.

[JB88]

Originally posted by wombatt
LOL there poor dogs would not last too long i think.

dogs are not carnivores as most people believe, they are omnivores.

[Elfie]

Furball I guess what irks me most about organizations like PETA is the fact that in the US at least they give nothing to actually help animals. Things like habitat improvement, buying parcels of land to set aside for wildlife to live on, planting food plots for wildlife etc. All of their funding goes towards things like fighting to stop experiments on animals.

Also according to PETA, killing animals for food is *needless slaughter of animals*.

[DREDIOCK]

The hell with PETA.

Cute little mission statement I'll agree but we already HAVE and organization to deal with animal cruelty.
The ASPCA.

Outside of that

I believe animals ARE ours to do with as we please.
Does this mean I support needlessly abusing them? No
  I also dont feel any pity, or sympathy for any idiot that moves to he mountains then complains about the bear wandering into their house or the deer eating their gardens. Or the mountain lions eating their pets
  And I dont see these reasons as reasons for a "hunt"
Sorry bub you decided to move to where the wildlife is.
 Either learn to live with it or move back to the city where you belong

But when it comes right down to it.

I dont care how a calf is treated to produce tender veal.
So long as it is tender when it reaches my plate.
I dont care how an animal is slaughtered. Dead is dead.
To me it doesnt matter how they get that way be it if they slit their throat or hit em in the head with a hammer or forced to watch reruns of I Love Lucy.
 So long as the meat ends up on my plate.

 I dont care if hunters hunt. So long as what they are hunting is being used as food in particularly when there is an absence of the natural predators to keep the population in check for a natural balance.

I dont care if fishermen fish. I dont care what a worm or baitfish feels or what the fish being caught feels

I dont care how Minks or other animals are kept or treated to produce fur coats or leather jackets, shoes and boots.
 Typically they are bred for that one reason and one reason alone. They are in essence a crop and should be treated as such

I dont care how many or what kind of animals are used in medical experiments. To me research that may save Human life is and always will be more important then that of any animal.

Bottom line is 99% of what PETA cares about and wants/expects me to care bout. I either dont care about or outright want regardless of the poor widdle animals.

But I think if PETA members would really like to help out they should volunteer for human medical experiments or to be subject of a hunt themselves.

Hell Might even make me want to take up hunting.

It has been said the addition of meat to our diets has been largely responsible for human brain size.
 Of those from PETA or other vegans I've met.
Ive seen nothing of them that would lead me to any other conclusion that the link between meat in our diets and human brain size and intellect is anything other then 100% correct

[Drunky]

I like to kick my dog.

I also like to kick my neighbor's dog.

[Ozark]

Originally posted by Drunky
I think that all PETA member should be shot.

And promptly bbq'ed and eaten with potato salad, cole slaw, lots and lots of bbq sauce and beer.

That will teach them to fxck with us.

I think that all dweeb flight sim pilots shot down while flying online should be eaten!

Yeah! That’s it! And bbq'ed and eaten with potato salad, cole slaw, lots and lots of bbq sauce and beer during the AH Con. How bout it HT? Please!! I bet the Embassy Suites might have the bbq pits. Heck, it’s next to the Bass Pro Shop.

That will teach them newbies to fxck with us.

[Drunky]

Anyone ever try to get oral pleasures from a PETA chick?

I tried to tell her it was tofu but she didn't believe me.