I have a few questions about peta?

Question

What are some of the things they do that they are "against". What makes peta hypocrites.

Answer 1

Lets see:

Claim: To be moral.

Fact: Gave money to ALF and ELF (terrorist groups) and SHAC (criminal group); gave money to arsonist whom destroyed lab full of wilderness *restoration* data; Openly approved of violence in public speeches; trespass on property of, and harass, people not directly involved with animals; harass, terrify, and traumatize children; the list here goes on and on and on.

Claim: To be against medical testing.

Fact: Happily use animal-tested or -derived medical products like pain killers, insulin, and so on.

Claim: To be responsible charitable organization.

Fact: Hides fund-raising costs in affiliated groups budgets to hide their true cash flow.

Claim: To interested in and supportive of animal welfare.

Fact: Spends less than one percent of its multi-million dollar budget actually helping animals.

That's just a *quick* overview. There's a LOT more dirt out there - All you have to do is LOOK, and you'll find it. Google is your friend - Put it to work.

Answer 2

I had no idea..THnaks Abby

Answer 3

hypocrite example: They dont support animal testing and research...they clame it is violent and immoral...then they go BREAK into a laboratory, DISTROY equiptment and research and STEAL the animals. How is that non violent and moral??? There have also been reports of members harming the animals themselves and then stating that those are the conditions the animals were found (to make it look like the researches are torturing the animals)

Thats just one example however and I think its a little outdated...if they still do that c**p then they are really dumb

Answer 4

I think user Abbyful said everything.  Follow her links and learn why PETA is dangerous.

Great post Abby!

Answer 5

I love PETA.  People Eating Tasty Animals.

Answer 6

Oh geez, where do I start? I could write a book on why I hate PETA!

They pull people in with the "we love animals!" hook, and unfortunately many people don't look beyond that initial idea. PETA is a horrible group!

They say they have the best interest of the animals in mind, but I don't believe it. Although I have no proof of it, I would suspect that many of their "under-cover videos" are even staged, which is sad. (And they won't release their full unedited videos.)

PETA kills animals: http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

They also have the goal of making all domestic animals extinct. They don't want people to have pets. Or service dogs. Etc.

Some suggested reading about PETA:

http://www.nokillnow.com/PETAIngridNewki...

http://www.purebredcatbreedrescue.org/an...

http://www.targetofopportunity.com/anima...

http://www.activistcash.com/organization...

I also could never NEVER support a group that intentionally inflicts psychological damage to children and tries to get to the parents by USING the children and attempting to make the children fearful of their own parents. They have handed out the following comics to children:

You Mommy Kills Animals - http://www.furisdead.com/feat-momfur.asp

Your Daddy Kills Animals - http://www.fishinghurts.com/feat-newcomi...

I don't have all the information handy, but at one point a year or so ago, I decided to read through the PETA site. What I found was a wealth of mis-information and information skewed to support their "cause".

They want everyone to be vegan. I have no problem with people choosing to be vegetarian/vegan, it's their own personal choice, but it's just that: a *choice*. People have the right to choose if they want to be vegetarian/vegan, or if they want to eat an omnivorous diet.

And PETA also wants dogs and cats to be vegetarian/vegan. Now *that* I have major problems with. Animals should be fed a diet that is appropriate for their species; for dogs and cats, that diet should include meat.

Here's a video that shows their hypocrisies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ijLulwU...

(Disclaimer: the guys narrating the video use some strong language, if that offends you, don't want it.)

In short, they are a destructive group that go about things completely the wrong way. They "protest" by interfering with others in ways that should not be done.

* They disrupted VS fashion show a couple years ago: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/1...

* Although they have discontinued the practice, they used to attack people with spray-paint that were wearing fur coats. (Their website now says "if you have a fur coat, donate it to a homeless person.")

(There are numerous other examples, you can do a search on the internet and find them.)

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I love animals. I love my pets. Which is why I believe in animal WELFARE, not animal rights.

http://www.sover.net/~lsudlow/ARvsAW.htm

http://www.animalwelfarecouncil.com/html...

Animal welfare = treat animals humanely.

Animal rights = extinction of domestic animals.

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Answer 7

PETA addresses so much more than just the extreme way animals are treated (which unfortunately is a constant, day in and day out thing).

In fact, the industry is so bothered by it that they started trying to address PETA in deceptive ways which includes the ridiculous PETA "kills" site that Abbey included in her answer here (in fact the same PETA haters seem to be answering all the PETA related questions on Y!A).

The background info on that is:

What she's promoting is an industry group in sheep's clothing. That's a Rick (Richard) Berman group, "Center for Consumer Freedom" aimed at discrediting and marginalizing organizations such as PETA. Among some of their other pursuits is Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Greenpeace and more.

Who do they work for? They work for Monsanto, The meat, dairy, restaurant industries, the fishing industry, Wal-Mart, Tyson, Cargill, Dean Foods, big tobacco, the soda industry and the beer and alcohol industry among others.

Some of their scamming astroturf groups?

Center for Consumer Freedom Umbrella:

*   activistcash.com

*   cspiscam.com

*   physicianscam.com

*   fishscam.com

*   neoprohibition.com

*   animalscam.com and petakillsanimals.com

*   obesitymyths.com

The Employment Policies Institute

American Beverage Institute

Employment Roundtable

Center for Union Facts

Employee Freedom Action Committee

Isn't it funny they name themselves after scam so much since they are such scammers?

In fact, I just found one of the tag team postings a few days ago on the Boston Globe website. David Martosko works for Berman's scam operation and is actually in the Penn & Teller anti-Peta episode (that Penn & Teller are that easily manipulated and/or in the pockets of big industry and helping them to play us for fools has caused me to lose all respect for them -- better fools than tools).

Under Dave Martosko who is mocking Greenpeace is a comment by Gavin Gibbons commenting for the National Fisheries Institute which is another industry front. He is ironically attempting to throw doubt on a poster by saying that poster is making ad hominems even as his buddy above has made one after another about Greenpeace. This time they're trying to obscure the issue of the collapse of the fish stocks but they've also been very active trying to get people to believe there is no mercury issue or PCBs/Dioxins (Monsanto deals) in fish and they've even tried to convince pregnant women that the harm of mercury isn't worth having mentally delayed children (trying to scare us) which they say can be avoided by eating even more fish (on that one they tried to claim the March of Dimes was behind them but the March of Dimes had no idea and was not impressed).

See, they can't fight the groups like PETA and Greenpeace on facts so they try to do it through mocking. That the industries would resort to these tactics shows just how much more scummy they are.

Richard Berman is known as Dr. Evil, or as I like to call him, Beezlebub. He starts "charitable" groups such as Obesity Myths, or Fish Scam and solicits donations via advertising spreading the ideas the industries want you to believe. It's all about deception.

But then it gets even worse. The "charities" which get most of their money from the industries themselves such as Phillip Morris and Coca-Cola, then hire Richard Berman's consulting group, Berman & Co. to put together the campaigns. So, essentially he has drummed up his own business out of scamming all while manipulating the government rules, tax structures and the general public.

Berman's group under an entirely new incarnation has even been caught in the last few weeks spreading rumors in an attempt to get Gordon Smith re-elected as a senator.

Answer 8

No need to say more !

THANKS ABBY :)