PETA are just extremists. I don't believe any extremist for ANY cause will be good.
I understand what they mean about wishing humans didn't exist for the sake of the animals. I really do. I don't wish this myself, but I see where they are coming from, because it's something I think about a lot.
We cause a horrendous amount of suffering for millions of animals. We disrupt nature and ecosystems in a horrific manner. We torture animals every day- pets mistreated- eg. rabbits (who we all have a passion for here) left alone in a box at the end of a garden on a poor diet, neglect, animal testing, circus animals, bad zoos, and of course the meat industry and fur industry.
Just think of chickens...all the fast food outlets. The battery hens you buy your eggs from (I refuse to do this- everything I buy is free range...but what can you do when you go out for dinner or buy a ready meal? Surely not free range....). They have had torturous, pain-filled lives. Debeaking, urine scald, broken limbs, not being able to move just being a few tortures that humans would go to jail for many years for doing if we even attempted to do this to eachother.
Because animals don't have a voice...we need someone to speak for them. Hence the creation of PETA and other societies!! But even they are corrupt and do so much harm as well as some good ('some' good).
I find PETA a preachy bunch, I really do. Why should everyone be vegetarians, because animals 'have the right to life'? That is so WRONG- it goes against NATURE. Carnivores are natural and here from the beginning of time! So it is natural to eat meat. HOWEVER...I agree with vegetarianism because of the WAY we treat our meat animals. THAT should be the reason they promote vegetarianism- stopping these terrible conditions cows and pigs and chickens etc. have to endure.
It makes me hurt physically every day when I think of so many animals having bad lives- pets and meat animals etc. etc. Everywhere there are animals being mistreated.
Even that lady who put the cat in the bin- everyone found it funny when we were sitting watching the tv. Yet I was near tears and felt so much anger. Okay it looked weird and the cat wasn't hurt. But what if it wasn't found? It would have died of starvation, alone, in the dark, crying. That b*tch got less than she deserved.
Jen
its just sad. I always believed in PETA until I learned of their mission to practically boycott the adoption of all Pit Bulls... Its just crazy that they are called the people for the ethical treatment of animals when what they do is so injust and down right inhumane...
