What is peta?

Question

What is peta?

Answer 1

A cult that believes nobody should eat animals.

Answer 2

An animal rights organisation that have done some CRAZY things. Even killed animals. Most people think that their nutcases.

If you want to know more, I suggest that you go to:

www.goveg.com

www.peta.org

Or if you want to know why people don't like them:

www.petakillsanimals.com

Answer 3

PETA is an extremist group that has the goal of the **extinction** of domestic animals (livestock, service dogs, police dogs, even pet dogs and cats!).

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! I believe that most PETA members have no idea what they are even supporting.

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

Petakillsanimals an *extremely* well-researched site.

PETA is a tax exempt organization, so their tax returns are available to the public. Also, since they are classified as a humane society, they have to return the statistics of animals they take in and what happens to them, also public domain.

Here are examples of GOVERNMENT documents that verify the information on petakillsanimals. They have sourced and documented everything on their website.

- 2004 - http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi-bin...

- 2005 - http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi-bin...

- 2006 - http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi-bin...

- (2007 statistics not yet recorded on this website)

PETA's "undercover films" aren't to be believed.

http://www.furcommission.com/news/newsC7...

Some suggested reading about PETA:

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:

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

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

And they donate to domestic terrorist organizations such as ALF (Animal Liberation Front) and ELF (Earth Liberation Front).

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.)

There have been numerous reports from local animal shelters in the area of PETA's headquarters that say PETA comes and tries to get animals from them. And that PETA *competes with them* so people bring their animals to PETA instead of the local shelter.

http://www.nokillnow.com/PETAPart1Horrib...

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

PETA also tries to make fake organizations to try to make themselves not look so bad. Here's such an example (note that they won't admit anywhere on the page that they are PETA): http://consumerdeception.com/

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 4

They are a hardcore animal rights organization that believe that animals have the same rights as humans, but at the same time they kill unwanted animals in their shelters. :-(