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Peta ... well. I don't approve of how they try to get things done. There is always the idea that if you want to change the world you can't be PC or polite about it or you'll never get anything done...

But here are some things I don't like about Peta.

They'll use anything to further their message. Beheading on a bus by a mad man in canada? Used.
Sexism? Lettuce clad ladies? Sure.
There are more, but these are the two that are foremost in my mind.

I really hate their extremist approach to everything. I hate that they pretty much scare a LOT of people away from being Vegan, and *I* get a lot of freaking flack.

Mainstream media doesn't even NEED to talk about 'peeeetaaa atrooocities!' to make them a pain in the a**.

What's wrong with PeTA? Teehee...

PeTA obviously doesn't care if you trash the rainforest if it means you can have something free of animal products. Orangutans pushed to extinction for palm oil? Who cares, as long as we get our "cruelty-free" products!

And let's not forget their "pleather yourself" campaign - because it's so much more "ethical" (whatever the frell that means anymore) to drill highly toxic crude oil, send it to processing plants where workers are poisoned by it and where its toxins get into the environment, and make it into a product that will eventually break down into more toxins.

They also have a "meat isn't green!" campaign. The research shows otherwise - it most certainly can be green:
Livestock grazing good for the soil
Can cattle save us from global warming?


PeTA has, in the past, used dishonest tactics to get the videos they wanted. For example, one video shows monkeys bouncing frantically around a cage while Ingrid Newkirk puts on her best bleeding-heart voice and tells the audience that it's because the monkeys have gone crazy from being locked up. In reality, the monkeys are jumping around because the cameraman alarmed them.

As far as science goes, you can count on PeTA to ignore anything (scientific or otherwise) that might make people second-guess their dogma.

Other times it's come out that those who make the alleged "undercover videos" used by various animal rights groups are made by people who have gone into places and actually had someone commit acts of excessive cruelty to the animals just so they could get it on tape. Sometimes the videos don't even show what they claim they show: at one point PeTA made an "undercover video" of a "fur farm" - only their fur farm was actually a scent-producing facility. (More information on faked or dishonest videos here.) Score one for honesty, huh?

Their "Is meat natural?" page is full of lies. Any good book on history or anthropology will show you just how full of crap it is. (Primitive African tribes ate raw meat well into the modern era and were quite healthy - yeah, raw meat is obviously so toxic and unnatural.)

They also have a huge campaign whining about mulesing. They claim it's unnecessary and liken it to "cutting chunks of flesh off your backside with pruning shears." (A better analogy would be circumcision.) What they're not telling you is that the alternative is far worse. It's actually inhumane not to mules.

PeTA has stated that they don't care if new members of a species are born, but rather that the suffering of those living is reduced or eliminated. (Consider their 97% kill rate at their 'animal shelter.) It's obvious that they don't particularly care about the environment. Having done the math, I have come to the realization that the logical conclusion to their philosophy is to set off a nuclear bomb powerful enough to "euthanize" all life on Earth and be done with it once and for all.

Also, avoiding meat because simply you hate the idea of killing animals is self-defeating. For every plant you eat, at least a dozen arthropods (bugs) had to be killed in pest control - and that's just for organic produce. Apparently, it's okay to poison, gas, crush, or fatally trap Flik and all his friends if it means Bambi gets to keep frolicking in the forest. If that's not speciesism, I don't know what is. (Now who's Hitler, huh, Ingrid?)

I've never heard of that one before. D= But I can imagine how many people would be offended by that.

peta disgusts me.

i'm a hardcore vegan, and i refuse to be associated with them.

Yes, they did ask them to use human breast milk.. But they had a slight point. If you ask the question "Why do we drink another animals milk instead of our OWN species milk?" It kind of make sense. You dont see goats drinking milk from a cow.. So it is a little reasonable. There is a problem with aquiring human milk thoough. I mean imagine a factory where they have women strapped to chairs and have milk being extracted from their breast...