RangerDave wrote:
I don't get why some people (most frequently those to the right of center, politically) find PETA so infuriating. I mean, I agree that they take their philosophy too far, some of their ad campaigns go for shock value and cross the line into poor taste, but what's the big deal? Humane treatment of animals is, I would think, a relatively uncontroversial idea, so why get so worked up when PETA takes the point too far or makes it too bluntly? *shrug* I just don't understand the intensity of the backlash.
PETA is hypocrisy at its best, they enjoy the benefits yet at the same time touts it’s evilness at the same time. They are short sighted and can’t look beyond the glow of their own self righteous, they care for no one but their crusade, no matter the destruction.
The head of PETA herself is diabetic and uses insulin on a regular basis, yet instead of promoting the ethical treatment of animals in laboratories, they want an out right ban on ALL animal testing, the very thing which is saving people’s lives. Shortsightedness at its best…
A couple of years back, they had this huge campaign against Australian wool because we use a method called mulesing to get rid of the skin around the sheep’s tail, so they don’t get eaten alive by flies and larvae. Didn’t matter that this was done to young sheeps (similar to circumcision), and was the best way in which flies didn’t lay eggs under their tail and have the larvae’s eat them alive. So as a result of their “think of the animal”… currently over 3 million sheeps in australia die each year, eaten alive by flies, simply because some idiot in the government decided to go with their stupid logic…
So no, PETA doesn’t love animals, they only use it as a front for their ‘crusade’… This is why many people hate them, because believe it or not, sometimes those who hate them the most are actually animal lovers…