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In reply to the discussion: PETA Protest Calls For Extinction Of Cattle [View all]get the red out
(14,026 posts)23. I hate PETA because they despise what I love, pets.
After learning about PETA's attitude toward pets, and how much they believe in killing as many as possible, I can honestly say I despise this organization with everything in me. They are sickening, twisted, and outside reality and decency in every way. Compassion doesn't exist in them, just some kind of belief system that is neither for the good of animals nor people. Their beliefs exist like a religion of it's own, IMO, to be followed without compassion or reason.
Here is their own words:
but we believe that it would have been in the animals best interests if the institution of pet keepingi.e., breeding animals to be kept and regarded as petsnever existed. The international pastime of domesticating animals has created an overpopulation crisis; as a result, millions of unwanted animals are destroyed every year as surplus.
This selfish desire to possess animals and receive love from them causes immeasurable suffering, which results from manipulating their breeding, selling or giving them away casually, and depriving them of the opportunity to engage in their natural behavior. They are restricted to human homes, where they must obey commands and can only eat, drink, and even urinate when humans allow them to.
Read more: http://www.peta.org/about-peta/why-peta/pets/#ixzz2qOkdXLcj
Here is an editorial about what they do with pets:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-j-winograd/peta-kills-puppies-kittens_b_2979220.html
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is an organization that publicly claims to represent the best interest of animals -- indeed their "ethical treatment." Yet approximately 2,000 animals pass through PETA's front door every year and very few make it out alive. The vast majority -- 96 percent in 2011 -- exit the facility out the back door after they have been killed, when Pet Cremation Services of Tidewater stops by on their regular visits to pick up their remains. Between these visits, the bodies are stored in the giant walk-in freezer PETA installed for this very purpose. It is a freezer that cost $9,370 and, like the company which incinerates the bodies of PETA's victims, was paid for with the donations of animal lovers who could never have imagined that the money they donated to help animals would be used to end their lives instead. In fact, in the last 11 years, PETA has killed 29,426 dogs, cats, rabbits, and other domestic animals.
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No their issue with adopting out animals is that those poor animals would be exploited by their
Vincardog
Jan 2014
#61
A 'cherry pick'? Of the animals PETA took in, they killed 80% in 2010, and 95.9% in 2011.
X_Digger
Jan 2014
#85
It could mean people ignoring evidence unfavorable to their argument, i.e.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2014
#201
So after your subthread proved XDigger correct, what is bullshit about post #10 again?
snooper2
Jan 2014
#86
What you read into my post illuminates your apprehensions far more than you realize. n/t
X_Digger
Jan 2014
#108
Your source is a lobbying group for the meat, cigarette, alcohol & restaurant industries.
yewberry
Jan 2014
#142
It's so much more popular on DU to attack PETA than the factory-farming industry!
athena
Jan 2014
#27
And PETA is against hunting, so, in essence, that makes them the enemy of hunters.
Ranchemp.
Jan 2014
#29
My concern for cattle is that they may have lost the ability to survive in the wild.
alfredo
Jan 2017
#208
Breast milk tastes great. I bet it would make great ice cream due to fat content.
alfredo
Jan 2017
#209
Right.. the difference between what they *say* and what they *do* is very telling. n/t
X_Digger
Jan 2014
#48
I'm 99.9% vegan these days and I happen to loathe PETA and everything they stand for.
kestrel91316
Jan 2014
#32
You would think we could all agree that reducing suffering and increasing enjoyment are worthy goals
Vattel
Jan 2014
#38
PETA should call them high-capacity assault cows -- and hand-wringers will ban them quickly.
aikoaiko
Jan 2014
#28
Thanks for posting. I cooked my first prime-rib at Christmas following a recipe to is quite
Purveyor
Jan 2014
#40
Not to sound like I'm defending them, but there is not one PETA quote in that article.
arcane1
Jan 2014
#51
Choosing to support the factory-farming industry does not make you a part of the ecosystem.
athena
Jan 2014
#122
No, I'm arging that a biological response does not automatically indicate awareness
Orrex
Jan 2014
#188
Actually no I haven't not the biggest fan of corn. I'm well aware that humans aren't photosynthetic
Arcanetrance
Jan 2014
#172
Humans are weak soft insignificant maggots that our children will crush under their hooves
Baclava
Jan 2014
#112
It's so much better to hand over your hard-earned cash to the beef industry instead.
athena
Jan 2014
#123
If you know of an 'unbiased source'...let me know as I've not found one yet. eom
Purveyor
Jan 2014
#152