PETA: helpful or harmful?
Before you read this blog, you should read this first.
I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat meat, and I don't support animal torturing. Although I didn't care for PETA, I didn't realized how bad things were until I saw that website.I was discussing it with my mom, and she said that a bunch of the animals were killed in the city beside mine.
I was shocked at how the people for the "ethical treatment of animals" could be so hypocritical. They supposedly find safe homes for animals, while really the "safe home" is some dumpster in rural Virginia or North Carolina.
If you go to the Ad Campaigns page on that website, you'll scroll down and see that PETA doesn't support animal testing. Neither do I, but if it isn't harmful testing, I think it should be allowed. Like, say, you're testing a new kind of salad [only thing I could think of]. If it doesn't have any harmful products in it, I think it should be able to be tested on a rabbit. But if it's like, a medicine that could be potentially life threatening, I wouldn't.
No support on medical research - but what about when Ingrid or whatever the hell her name is gets AIDS? I wonder how she'll feel, when all her T Cells are dying and she can't be all, "go get me some fucking medicine".
You know those videos of say, KFC? Personally, I think they're staged. I know KFC DOES torture their chickens, but honestly. How would a PETA official sneak a camera in?
2,981 animals in 2006 alone were killed. Over 17,000 were killed in the past 10 years. That's a lot. It's actually a lot more than a lot, to be honest. Do you still support PETA, after all those innocent animals were killed? Just because they couldn't find owners for them?
I don't care if you support PETA, I'm not trying to change your mind. But honestly, think; where are your donations going to? Next time, try sending it to your local shelter or something that you can trust.
I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat meat, and I don't support animal torturing. Although I didn't care for PETA, I didn't realized how bad things were until I saw that website.I was discussing it with my mom, and she said that a bunch of the animals were killed in the city beside mine.
I was shocked at how the people for the "ethical treatment of animals" could be so hypocritical. They supposedly find safe homes for animals, while really the "safe home" is some dumpster in rural Virginia or North Carolina.
If you go to the Ad Campaigns page on that website, you'll scroll down and see that PETA doesn't support animal testing. Neither do I, but if it isn't harmful testing, I think it should be allowed. Like, say, you're testing a new kind of salad [only thing I could think of]. If it doesn't have any harmful products in it, I think it should be able to be tested on a rabbit. But if it's like, a medicine that could be potentially life threatening, I wouldn't.
No support on medical research - but what about when Ingrid or whatever the hell her name is gets AIDS? I wonder how she'll feel, when all her T Cells are dying and she can't be all, "go get me some fucking medicine".
You know those videos of say, KFC? Personally, I think they're staged. I know KFC DOES torture their chickens, but honestly. How would a PETA official sneak a camera in?
2,981 animals in 2006 alone were killed. Over 17,000 were killed in the past 10 years. That's a lot. It's actually a lot more than a lot, to be honest. Do you still support PETA, after all those innocent animals were killed? Just because they couldn't find owners for them?
I don't care if you support PETA, I'm not trying to change your mind. But honestly, think; where are your donations going to? Next time, try sending it to your local shelter or something that you can trust.
The problem with that Ieva is that rats and humans are not one and the same. What works on rats may not work on humans, we do react to things very differently. That is part of the arguement, testing on any species other than human for human medicines, cosmetics etc can never be 100% scientifically accurate. Not even testing on Bonobos our genetically closest relative is deemed acceptable in those terms.
In regards PETA, personally I find them to be as full of propaganda as those they 'fight' against. Put your money to better use, support your local SPCA or Humane Society.
Grandma, March 11th, 2008 at 04:11:19am
wtf salad
people can test salad
medicines should be tested on animals, people's lives are more important than the lives of rats
paper shoes, March 10th, 2008 at 06:33:20pm
The trouble is, You cant really trust anywhere your money is going unless yu do it all yourself.
I dont support PETA, Only because I just dont care anymore.
There's alot of things we dont know about organisations, We'll never know. I find it best not to think about it actually.
Good blog though.
Tholomew Plague, March 10th, 2008 at 01:30:13am
I'm a vegan and everyone is always like "Oh, you're one of those PETA freaks!"
I don't support PETA at all. To put it blunty, they're militaristic douches about vegetarianism.
Bone Machine, March 9th, 2008 at 09:27:44pm
Although I've never actually seen/heard/read of any substantial proof against PETA, I tend to not trust certain *ahem* major corporations because, usually, their main motive is money and really don't care much about what they "support".
However, maybe if the people who run this site actually do a proper investigation and come out with actual evidence of these killings, not just word of mouth, a few random pictures that could have been easily made by anyone on Photoshop, and statistics that just came out of nowhere, then I'll believe it. I'm not defending PETA or anything, but I just like having concrete evidence.
If anyone at all could point me in that direction, it would be greatly appreciated. Srsly. :]
Hello, My Name Is Asshole, March 9th, 2008 at 05:48:57pm
Im so glad you wrote this. I'm an avid animal rights activist and I can't stand PETA. They're a political organization who wouldn't care any less anout animals. What's so sad though, is that they have a following of people who really do love animals, they just don't know the awful things that organization does.
Kurtni, March 9th, 2008 at 05:16:32pm
I don't support PETA, I think they are overreacting.
brompton cocktail., March 9th, 2008 at 05:08:27pm