PETA = Evil?

[Hikari-chan]

This is a topic that is totally being talked about lately in Pokémon Forums.

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is an organization that supposed to concern about Animal Welfare, animal rights, and etc, but in reality, they are totally evil...

They seek "total liberation." Like totally means no meat, no milk, no zoos, no circuses, no wool, no leather, no hunting, no fishing, and no pets (not even seeing-eye dogs).

PETA says that they totally operate on a no-kill policy, but actually they kill pets like cats and dogs in reality which like totally can be adopted by other people. (1)

PETA also hinders the cure of AIDS, Avian Flu, and other diseases because PETA said that they don't want to use animals such as lab rats to totally find a cure for these diseases.

They also use anti-meat and anti-milk propaganda to lure children and teenager into this totally violent organization.

PETA also criticized Steve Irwin, a well respected animal conservationist which is like totally mean. (source)

Bottom Line: PETA is not a good organization, and noone should support it.

 

[Zeta]

Duh. They're absolutely nuts. The chairwoman herself said that she doesn't see the difference between saving the life of a human child and saving an ant.

 

[GrnMarvl14]

PETA is...the most disturbing group that exists, this side of outright "kill 'em all" terrorists. Go to their site sometime. The main page is (or WAS) an ad for synthetic furs (with links to "content"). They take a simple thing like animal rights and turn it into "animals must live...NO MATTER WHAT". And then they kill things. It's...retarded. To put it nicely.

 

[Pie]

Indeed, PETA gives the rest of us animal lovers a bad name. By the way, you forgot the whole jumping onto fashion runways and interrupting shows to spraypaint anything that looks remotely like fur - even faux fur used instead of real fur. (It only jumps to mind because my sister's a fashion major, and thus researched extensively into fur and the issues surrounding it.)

Steve Irwin is awesome, and if they knew anything about him or about animals, they'd know he wasn't antagonizing them but instead trying to educate people about them so that they would accept and love the animals they'd normally find terrifying. (They'd also know a stingray, in every other instance, isn't really considered a dangerous animal, which makes his death very ironic. In fact, the only way it could've been more ironic is if he was killed by a baby bunny. And not a killer one from Monty Python either.)

So, yeah, not feeling much love for PETA over here, either.

 

[Hikari-chan]

PETA is...the most disturbing group that exists, this side of outright "kill 'em all" terrorists. Go to their site sometime. The main page is (or WAS) an ad for synthetic furs (with links to "content"). They take a simple thing like animal rights and turn it into "animals must live...NO MATTER WHAT". And then they kill things. It's...retarded. To put it nicely.

What totally bugs me that they give money to a homegrown terrorist group called Animal Liberation Project (ALP) which vandalize labs, fast food resturants, etc. I heard they like put a university labitory on fire, which totally made me freaked out.

Indeed, PETA gives the rest of us animal lovers a bad name. By the way, you forgot the whole jumping onto fashion runways and interrupting shows to spraypaint anything that looks remotely like fur - even faux fur used instead of real fur. (It only jumps to mind because my sister's a fashion major, and thus researched extensively into fur and the issues surrounding it.)

Steve Irwin is awesome, and if they knew anything about him or about animals, they'd know he wasn't antagonizing them but instead trying to educate people about them so that they would accept and love the animals they'd normally find terrifying. (They'd also know a stingray, in every other instance, isn't really considered a dangerous animal, which makes his death very ironic. In fact, the only way it could've been more ironic is if he was killed by a baby bunny. And not a killer one from Monty Python either.)

So, yeah, not feeling much love for PETA over here, either.

If they don't want to kill animals for fur, they shouldn't spraypaint the fur, then a person will totally get another one which means another animal will get killed. ;-;

If it's fake, why they will be so totally against it?

Steve Irwin is a great guy, and his shows are educational (even though I totally don't watch them.) PETA has no right to criticize him like that, and in my opinion, they should applogize to the family of Steve Irwin and Australia for the comments they made towards Steve Irwin.

Thats why I don't support animal rights, but support animal welfare instead, since like Animals can't totally handle responsiblity like Humans. Animal Welfare is more important than animal rights IMO.

 

[Argy]

Actually, PETA takes donations of old fur coats and distributes them to the homeless so they aren't wasted. PETA wouldn't legally be able to get away with sabotaging a fashion shoot or destroying property.

Beware, PETA wants to take away your pets. :\

 

[Sui Kune]

PETA is an absolutely awful, hypocritical organization. I'm positive that many of the people who claim to support PETA really don't know what's going on there, including the celebrities that support it. They value animal life over human life (I saw one of the higher-ups refer to humans as the "cancer of the earth"), they fund ALF and even encourage the kind of behavior such as arson for the "sake" of "saving" animals. They also believe that pets and zoos are demeaning.

If they actually knew anything, they'd know that zoos and such help save and rehabilitate animals, and even help prevent animals from becoming extinct through breeding programs and reintroducing to the wild. Most of the animals in their care are also incapable of surviving on their own in the wild (Keiko, anyone? He should've stayed in captivity.), so by being taken care of by experienced animal husbanders (gah, is that the plural?) in a safe and rich environment is the best thing that could happen to them. The cruelties of nature and the wild are nearly non-existant there. And also, domesticated animals being cared for by people face the same great lives. They're genuinely loved and cared for, they become a part of the family (I even had a cat who recently died who was like my kid to me), and get more food and affection than they ever dreamed possible.

Seriously, PETA is just awful. I wouldn't be surprised if they're someday even prosecuted for things such as funding the ecoterrorists of ALF. If people truly loved animals, they'd not support PETA. I'm not even vegitarian or against fur, fishing, or hunting, but I really love animals. My reasoning is that just as loggers have to replant new trees after harvesting, using a resource wisely is a good thing. (Such as not using endangered species for fur, and not overfish or overhunt.) In fact, my dad's a hunter and a fisher, and he shows immense respect for the elk and fish and such he kills. He even does things such as leave a particularly-good buck for breeding purposes, plant trees and such for the elks' habitat, and doesn't use huge drag-nets for commercial fishing, but instead, lines. Sometimes knowing someone like him can give you another important perspective.

 

[Zeta]

If they actually knew anything, they'd know that zoos and such help save and rehabilitate animals, and even help prevent animals from becoming extinct through breeding programs and reintroducing to the wild. Most of the animals in their care are also incapable of surviving on their own in the wild (Keiko, anyone? He should've stayed in captivity.), so by being taken care of by experienced animal husbanders (gah, is that the plural?) in a safe and rich environment is the best thing that could happen to them. The cruelties of nature and the wild are nearly non-existant there. And also, domesticated animals being cared for by people face the same great lives. They're genuinely loved and cared for, they become a part of the family (I even had a cat who recently died who was like my kid to me), and get more food and affection than they ever dreamed possible.

Their rebuttal to this is that "It's better to be dead than live as a slave to humans", which goes to show you how nucking futs they are.

 

[Carbon_Zephyr]

We're not all crazy.

I'm vegan and an animal-rights activist, and yeah, even I think PETA is nuts. They go off the deep end quite often. (They even once criticized Pokemon by comparing Pokemon battles to cockfights, completely disregarding that it's just a game and no one is actually getting hurt.)
Note: I'm a huge Pokemon fan; I have been since I was 10 (back in the day).

I agree with some of what they stand for (animal rights in general, veganism/vegetarianism, activism), but their methods give vegetarians a bad name. They talk about veganism being such a compassionate way to live (and it is, if you do it without bugging the **** outta people), but they turn around and terrorize random people (even dairy and egg-consuming vegetarians) who are just living their lives.
Yes, I do think PETA's a bunch of crazy nazi-vegans, but you've got to keep in mind that we're not all that aggressive and insane.

I'm a peacful vegan. I think the message gets sent better that way, because people aren't quick to be on the defensive side of things. And it shows veg*nism as a positive thing, instead of something that makes you a menace to society.

PLEASE don't ever think that all vegetarians are like them. Most of us don't bother people about stuff like this at all... unless they bug us first. Then we defend ourselves. But still, in a peaceful, rational way.

*steps off of soapbox*

 

[The Big Al]

Now PETA is going after Six Flags for their latest stunt. If you can down a live 3-inch Hissing Cockroach you can move to the head of the line of your ride of choice.

Come on, humans have been eating bugs since the dawn of time. And Six Flags' rebuttle was that cockroaches are high in protien and low in fat.

PETA is nuts.

 

[McGraw]

PETA members need to get a job, the end.

 

[QuietDragon]

PETA's psychotic, enough said. I'm all for animal rights and such, but they're /insane./ And I'd guess they didn't see the Pokemon episodes concering Larvitar. Heh.

I used to eats ants a kid. ^^;;;;;;;

 

[Archaic]

*Wonders how many other people here have seen the Penn & Teller: Bullshit episode on PETA*

These guys are loonies. What's worse, they're loonies who are financially connected to terrorists who blow up medical labs where vital medical tests which save human lives are conducted.

 

[NX-01]

See, this is why I support Greenpeace, because they do their best to stop illegal activities. PETA does illegal activities like rioting against USDA.

 

[Nekusagi]

They scare the crap out of me, honestly. I care about animal rights (I'm totally opposed to hunting for sport, to begin with), but PETA just takes it WAAY too far. For example, their leader lady once publicly requested that upon her death, she be eaten and her skin made into leather. I'm not even sure that's legal...

Also, I have a stepcousin with leukemia, and their idea that a rat has more right to live than her disgusts me.

Animal rights ARE important, but there's a line between "normal" and "crazy". I'm pretty sure PETA's not even on the "crazy" side of that line. They're beyond that.

 

[Hikari-chan]

They are totally crazy...

I wonder if theres a PETA in the pokemon world... I meant, People for the Ethical Treatment of Pokemon.... probally they won't allow you to catch any pokemon and say they would save a Pikachu instead of a human being... =p

I still won't support them... if there was a such thing in the Pokemon World

 

[Argy]

For example, their leader lady once publicly requested that upon her death, she be eaten and her skin made into leather. I'm not even sure that's legal...

It sounds more like she was trying to make a point about how animals are used by humans upon death.

Now PETA is going after Six Flags for their latest stunt. If you can down a live 3-inch Hissing Cockroach you can move to the head of the line of your ride of choice.

That's disgusting.

(I saw one of the higher-ups refer to humans as the "cancer of the earth")

Whoever said it (if this is even true) was right. If you study environmental science at all, you'll see just how much human overpopulation and resource mining has done to damage the Earth and its ecosystems. Acknowledging humanity's bad impact on the Earth doesn't mean you want all humans to die; however, denying our impact is downright foolish.

 

[ck920]

Now PETA is going after Six Flags for their latest stunt. If you can down a live 3-inch Hissing Cockroach you can move to the head of the line of your ride of choice.

I thought it was PETA with an A not PETI with an I for insects. And if there focusing on animals they should cate that ants and other insects bother my cats. Ants can always find out where the cat food is and walk around in the bowl forcing the cats not to eat.

 

[Argy]

Insects are animals.

The ants don't know what they are doing when they get into your cat's food. They are simply doing what their instincts tell them- look for food. Of course, if you took the appropriate steps to make sure the ants couldn't access the food, then there wouldn't be a problem.

 

[Archaic]

See, this is why I support Greenpeace, because they do their best to stop illegal activities. PETA does illegal activities like rioting against USDA.

Sorry, but Greenpeace are wackos too. What's worse, they've been taken over by the socialist/communist movement. They used to be reasonable environmentalists, but now they're a mass of people who are being used by others for political ends.

There's a good reason the founder of Greenpeace strongly denounces his former organisation.