Peta is it working?

Question

i see in the super markets lots of meat the hunters in our area kill hundreds of deer

Answer 1

That depends on what you think PETA is supposed to be doing.  PETA will never be able to turn everyone into a vegetarian.  PETA will never end hunting.  PETA has changed how some food companies raise and slaughter animals.

Answer 2

Well I am not a vegetarian and never will be. I think it is natural to eat meat. I am against how animals are treated. I am donating to the ASPCA.

I can not even think about the videos I have seen from foreign countries skinning animals alive to not waste a penny on profits, I am already getting sick, I feel that strongly!

I would pay twice the cost of what meat is now for them to kill the animals humanely.

Do not even get me started on dog fighting!

Answer 3

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) was founded in the 1960's with the intent of promoting the ethical treatment of animals, but what they really do is to propagandize against the meat industry. While it's certainly unethical to mistreat animals, is it equally unethical to dress in a chicken outfit and stand on top of a McDonald's and call its patrons murderers?

Most people don't really think about what they put into their bodies. If they did, the soda industry would be completely out of business (along with quite a few others). Additionally, most people don't think about the lifestyle of the animals they eat. In fact, most people don't really think of the meat they eat as being something living, breathing, and feeling at one time.

PETA's original aims in increasing the ethical treatment of animals seem to have been met in the mid-1970's, and then they expanded their goals to press even further. Current farming methods (even at slaughterhouses) tend to be as humane as possible, even while accomplishing their aims.

PETA's main issue today is that it is no longer actually trying to increase the ethical treatment of animals, but instead have become a place for a more radical element to demonstrate against the average person's desire to eat meat, often using scare tactics and outdated footage to bolster their claims instead of being rational and sensible. As such, the government tends to ignore them.

Killing is necessary in order to live. We kill plants and animals in order to survive--it's just the nature of Nature. Any animal's immune system (animals including human beings, among all the rest) is constantly killing viruses and bacteria in order to keep the body's integrity. Illness is an expression of bacteria or viruses attacking us, and without our immune systems it would kill us.

Ultimately, death results anyway whether from illness, injury, or age. Groups like PETA serve to keep us aware of issues that might exist, but for at least 15 years, they have focused mostly on nonissues. They seem to think it's wrong for people to need to kill in order to live. My own opinion on this is that death would result anyway, whether theirs or our own.

WIth 40,000 years of ancestors known to have eaten animal flesh, how could anyone believe that we haven't developed to do this?

What's really bad is that there are individuals who do mistreat animals, but by and large they're not in industry. If it's discovered in industry, heavy fines and bad press result. This is because of PETA's work in the 1970's, and not because of anything they've really done since.

I love animals. It honestly breaks my heart to see them suffer needlessly. Things like dog or chicken fighting and neglect are commonplace among people who don't have a regard for life. Even so, I can't stand most people I've met who are members of PETA, because they want to give me the idea that eating meat is tantamount to committing murder.

If that's true, then so is having an immune system.

Answer 4

7 Things You Didn't Know About PETA

   1. PETA has stated repeatedly that their goal is "total animal liberation." This means no pets, no meat, no milk, no zoos, no circuses, no fishing, no leather, and no animal testing for lifesaving medicines.

   2. PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals.

   3. PETA funds the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine 3, an animal-rights organization that presents itself as an unbiased source for nutritional information and has links to a violent animal-rights group called SHAC.

   4. PETA has used their contributors’ tax-exempt donations to fund the North American Earth Liberation front, an FBI-certified “domestic terrorist” group responsible for fire bombs and death threats.

   5. PETA regularly targets kids as early as elementary school with anti-meat and anti-milk propaganda.

   6. PETA spends less than one percent of its $13 million budget actually caring for animals.

   7. PETA has repeatedly attacked groups like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, for conducting animal testing to find cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases.

Answer 5

I wasnt vegetarian until I saw peta videos. They were china fur farm videos and really had nothing to do with eating meat, but it shocked me so much so I looked at other videos on their site and actually gave them a chance to tell me their stories so the vegetarian videos were better intercepted after I saw the china fur farm videos. That was 2 years ago and Im still vegetarian so its obviously working on some people.