PETA Sucks May 6, 2009
Posted by Jacky in Rants.Tags: activists, animals, dumb, humane, idiotic, inhumane, irrational, of, peta, silly, treatment, vegans, vegetarians
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I hate PETA.
Just to clear things up before I launch into my tirade, I’m generally OK with the whole “humane treatment of animals” movement when they don’t try to convince other people to give up meat and become vegans. Unfortunately, they cross the line on too many occasions, like when they dare try and shove their ideals down my throat. That means, when it comes to PETA, almost every single day.
If you think that animals are being treated inhumanely, OK. I agree that sometimes animals are treated wrongly, but when it comes to eating animals, PETA should stay the fuck out of my business. If they decide that they want to become vegans, great. Just don’t try to convert me, because I like my meat and I will NOT give it up.
Eating meat is a personal decision and people shouldn’t be influenced by others. If I decide that I’m going to eat an entire pig every day of my life, that’s my decision. You, whoever you are, play absolutely no role in that decision unless you happen to be my parent. Nobody has the right to judge others by how they choose to live their lives, let alone how they choose to eat.
And you know what? Nobody should have to be forced to listen to the hippie nonsense that PETA likes to spew out at the uninterested public. What if I went on the radio and promptly told everyone to stop drinking water immediately because it was immoral to take water away from the habitats of marine life? I’d be laughed off this world.
I like meat because it tastes good. Is that so immoral? Is it immoral to eat what I like then? If it is, then I guess everyone in the world should stop eating food and just eat dirt for the rest of their lives. Ultimately though, that’s not really what pisses me off the most about PETA. What I really can’t stand is that they are so damn sure that their ideals are so much better than everyone else’s, so we should all follow their grand, magnificent example.
Well, what makes those PETA people so sure that they’re better than us meat-eaters? Is there some written document that says that become a vegan is a course that everyone should take? If there isn’t, then I’ll just stick with my carnivorous habits, because in my opinion, eating meat is a lot better than eating plants. Great, now let me just force my opinion on every single vegetarian on Earth.
And besides, animals have been eating other animals for millions of years now. Until PETA decides to brand every single carnivorous organism in the world as inhumane, they’re just morons. They’re so convinced that humans breeding animals to eat is so inhumane, but you know, maybe that’s just natural. Humans are at the top of the ecological food chain, so why should we give up eating those suckers lower down? If they really didn’t like being eaten, they should have evolved better.
Oh yeah, and what’s so damn glorious about eating plants? Plants are mass produced now just like animals for meat. Being forced onto shitty soil with millions of neighbors breathing down your neck sounds pretty inhumane to me. OK, now let’s boycott anything that resembles industrial agriculture! Isn’t it a great idea?
But you know, in health class recently I’ve been learning about “resolving conflicts with compromise.” I guess now would be a great time to apply what I’ve learned in that useless class to real life. So, I say we strike a deal with PETA: they should be locked up in dark, damp cells away from any sign of civilization. Doesn’t sound like a compromise? Well, actually it is:
- PETA can stop wasting what little energy they have convincing everybody else to stop eating meat. This means that they can conserve the 5 calories a day they intake from plants.
- PETA can then think that everyone is now vegan, since they’ll have no contact with the outside world. I’m sure they’ll be able to deceive themselves eventually.
- We can be spared the hippie bullshit that PETA tries to force down our throats and continue to eat meat.
See? Everybody wins.
Well, I’m not a big fan of PETA (for different reasons), but I think the idea is to decrease or prevent the suffering animals endure in factory farms. I don’t have a moral problem with the act of eating meat — as you said, many other animals are carnivores — but I do find the conditions of factory farms disturbing.
Also, PETA does a lot more than promote veganism. Their campaigns against fur and animal testing, for example, seem at least acceptable and (IMHO) applaudable.
Still, I get your point. We shouldn’t judge others for having different opinions, and PETA does often come across as judgmental.
I respect the movement as a whole, but PETA in particular is often too forceful in getting their points across.
Factory farms can be very disturbing, but to feed a population sometimes that’s what it takes. The other industries that PETA crusades against can certainly be very inhumane, but in the case of animal testing, sometimes it’s for the greater good, especially when it comes to medicine. However, personally, I do object to the fur industry and I don’t own any clothes made out of fur, but if it keeps you warm during the winter, then who’s to judge you for it?
I’d totally respect PETA if they didn’t try to slander everyone that didn’t agree with them. If they just revealed the hidden facts, I’d be totally cool with them.
animal testing of drugs is not very accurate at all
our systems are way too different
many medicines that work on monkeys have killed the first human that was tested on
PETA has found a great way to ‘free’ the animals they save. They kill 95-98% of the animals they rescue and throw em in the dumpster, because hey, they don’t have to suffer anymore, right? Apparently PETA has the right to kill (oh, i mean free) the animals in order to save them. If I were an animal locked in a cage, I wouldn’t want to be rescued then have my throat slit and thrown in a dumpster.
It’s funny how they want to save every single animal that we want to eat but they don’t have the slightest clue of what to do with them afterwards, even now.
Perhaps PETA needs to rethink their strategy.
Well, it was my understanding that a large number of animals rescued by PETA are killed almost painlessly with an injection. There have been a couple of incidents involving dumpsters, but the majority of the animals are euthanized properly.
It seems like euthanasia is preferable for many of the animals who are suffering at the hands of their guardians or owners, though I know PETA also euthanizes adoptable animals, which is something I disagree with..
I don’t think anyone who PROPERLY euthanizes animals should be blamed for the need to do that. Instead, look at the commercial breeders and careless owners who cause an overpopulation of suffering animals.
Of course PETA should put more effort into finding caring homes for the adoptable animals who they take in. But those animals that must be euthanized are not as much victims of PETA as they are victims of an apathetic society that ignores their suffering.
I doubt that most mistreated animal really need to be euthanized, but I do agree that for some, it’s perhaps necessary. I don’t think that PETA should just run around with needles randomly euthanizing mistreated animals though. Perhaps they should do it in a more responsible manner.
Rescuing mistreated animals might be one of PETA’s more responsible campaigns though. It’s certainly a noble cause.
this is stupid and ignorant. “i eat meat because i like it”. have you ever even seen a expose on slaughterhouses that your meat comes from? i doubt it, because when i did, when i was considering becoming vegetarian, i litarally sobbed and threw up. its horrific NOT just because of the animal abuse, you are killing yourself, becuase that meat is pumped with pesticides.
“Pumped with pesticides”
Perhaps you should reconsider your word choice. The meat in supermarkets is not sprayed with a thin film of DDT as it leaves the processing plant. Whatever trace of pesticides within the meat itself would come from the food that the animal ate prior to its death, which is minimal. There’s no incentive to spray raw meat with pesticides. It’ll just be a gigantic waste of money.
Besides, we’ll all die someday, why should I care if it comes a year or two sooner? All it means is less suffering for me. Anyways, a year off of my life expectancy is worth eating what I want to eat.
who cares if anyone saw what happened ata slaughterhouse? i never saw what happened, but im NOT gonna find out then make up my mind if i wanna be a skinny vegan with my ribs poking out. Why? BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO. i dont have to, i dont want to, and i will eat baby lambs taken from their parents to be tortured and to die slowly every day of my life if i want to.
and i dont care that meat is “unhealthy”. There are infinite pros and cons about meat, and neither side is gaining any ground. So ill just forget about arguing and say this: i dont care if ill die 10 years before you or that ill get a heart attack from eating meat. I just care that its in my mouth, being smushed up to pulp, and going down my throat. meat is so delicious its sexy. thats my opinion, and nobody will ever change it except me.
These PETA jerks are trying to force their rediculous ideas on us all starting often with school kids they have no shame in promoting their perverted view of animals and still get a bunch of braindead hollywood celeberties to donate and do stupid ads for them like ALEC BALDWIN and PAMELA ANDERSON becuase their so stoned out on booze and dope they have no minds left
PETA always tries to force their views onto the rest of the uncaring public and yet somehow always seems shocked when even their celebrity ads fail.
Still, at least it’s entertaining when they utterly fail.
im tired of the government forcing the idea that weed is bad
while saying its ok to drink booze
booze will kill you
and weed is always safe to use
the only thing that makes weed unsafe is the prohibition enforced by police
I actively support PETA.
People Eating Tasty Animals
My favorite PETA argument is that eating meat isn’t natural for humans. My response is that whatever humans do is natural for humans to do. We did it, therefore it is a natural thing for us to do.
Well, we’ve been eating meat for thousands of years, so something’s obviously going right.
i will go to the PETA headquarters and bring my 2 dogs and the biggest juiciest steak i can find and make all the morons watch us eat it and we”ll drink milk or “rape juice” as they call it(they probably wish milk was made that way and get off to the thought of cows being raped and impregnated by machines everyday)
That might be overdoing it a little bit, but I think they’d certainly get the message after that! Their reactions may end up being very interesting…
Anyways, thanks for the comment!
your welcome jacky. like you said slaughterhouses can be improved. but the way most animals kill theyr prey is very disturbing to watch also (and we dont have claws and big sharp teeth so we invented cutlery)i mean realy how is a human eating a cheeseburger any differant from a snake eating a rabbit or a wolf eating a sheep?. dont get me wrong i have no problem with vegetarians or vegans at all infact i love some vegan foods but if i never ate meat again i will go into convulsions. and i just dont we why we should be attacked for eating! we didnt kill the animals!
I completely agree with you on that one. Most animals in the wild kill their prey in a much more gruesome fashion than our comparatively humane methods. Of course, one lion isn’t likely to eat millions of cows a day, but it’s an argument worth making, especially when the whole “inhumane” line of reasoning comes up.
I think part of what you’re trying to say ties in with what Alex was saying earlier. If we don’t eat meat we’re starving ourselves of a natural source of food. It’s basically natural selection; we’ve become much better suited to the environment, so human lives will obviously take priority over animal lives. There’s no reason to stop eating meat because it’s completely natural and it’s good for us, even if it is bad for the animals that we end up eating.
Of course, then you have to wonder, how much is too much? When do we cross the line when it comes to eating meat? Is it when someone eats 20 hamburgers a day, or is it when they eat 1 hamburger a day? I think the main difference in opinion lies there. I’m with the “20 burgers is OD” camp, but PETA thinks differently. There’s a fine line between eating to survive and killing too many cows though, and we’ve all got to form our own opinions about the matter.
I don’t personally see any problem with the act of eating meat. After all, it’s not like we’re the only animals that are omnivores/carnivores. But the way animals suffer in factory farms does make me think before buying a hamburger.
I know that wild animals suffer just as much when they are killed by predators, but I still don’t see the need to support operations that raise sentient beings in something very similar to concentration camps, and then kill them cruelly.
I don’t think meat is murder, but paying someone to abuse animals just doesn’t seem necessary to me.
Factory farms can be improved, and I don’t think anyone can really argue with that. But if you really think about it, being a meat animal would be great… free food for your entire life, and just before you get old and wrinkly, you get killed painlessly.
In all seriousness though, the animals don’t suffer when they get killed, and while conditions for them aren’t wonderful, they’re not horrible if you consider what they’re being raised for.
if you buy your meat meat localy like from the farmer’s market or a kosher butcher shop chances are you wont be supporting those operations. and i do agree that there should be limits,like you dont have to eat meat with every single meal. anyways PETA needs to spend more of theyr time and money on actualy helping some animals and less..much less on those idiotic ad campaignes and hollywierd spokespeople,then maybe they wouldnt have to euthanize so many animals.
It’s funny that you call PETA hippies a couple times in your post considering that even though they prey on young hippies who claim to support PETA, PETA’s ideals are actually completely opposite to that of the hippie movement. They use violent and non-peaceful methods in order to get their point across. And this is why PETA sucks.
I also wanted to comment on chrissy dog’s following comment:
“i just dont we why we should be attacked for eating! we didnt kill the animals!”
I’m not judging people who eat meat. I believe it is a personal choice and people should stay out of other peoples business. However to be ignorant enough to shun the responsibility for the treatment of the animals that you consume just because you didn’t kill them is ridiculous. Just because you didn’t do the slaughtering, doesn’t mean that you are not at fault. The only reason we do not do the slaughtering anymore is because it is convenient and readily available for sale. In fact, if we did do the killing ourselves and actually used all the parts of the animal for useful purposes this would be much more humane than the method in place now.
I actually don’t think it makes sense to complain about the treatment of animals that are raised specifically to be killed and eaten. It’s one thing to raise an animal, but it’s another to raise it to consume it. I can’t believe that I would possibly say this, but in some sense the ends justify the means.
It would be impossible to treat animals humanely and still be able to make a profit off selling them. The two are fundamentally at odds. There’s just no way in the modern capitalist economy to treat those animals fairly.
PETA has recently gotten parents upset becuase their trying to give UNHAPPY MEALS to their kids I mean PETA is a radical cult and all should avoid PETA no matter what hollyweirdo dose stupid ads for this bunch of idiots
PETA employs some really questionable and sketchy tactics to terrorize the public into seeing things their way, which probably doesn’t help their cause very much. I generally try to stay away from PETA advertisements because they always make my blood boil. Sometimes, I just wish that they would intelligently make their point and back off.