Is peta evil

Answer 1

Here are some opinions from various Answers.com Contributors:

• PETA is free to express their opinions peacefully, but when members of PETA throw blood on a woman who chooses to wear a fur coat, that is wrong. They become terrorists when they condone bad behavior like burning down a beef farm. PETA would get more respect if they let people wear what they want without harassing them or destroying property. Everyone has the right to choose.

• PETA chapters have been known to be rather hypocritical in their actions. One report from last year indicated that they would dump bodies of deceased animals in their care (sometimes killed cruelly in their own custody) in dumpsters.

• The charges of animal cruelty were investigated by the ASPCA legal counsel and proved unfounded. That being noted, the organization has harmed it's own cause by it's unacceptable actions and blatant disregard of the law and the rights of other citizens. There are more productive and positive methods for furthering a cause that one believes in than the destruction of property and the assaulting of persons regardless of the circumstances. In some cases such as the Civil Rights Movement, violating the law becomes a necessity for the obvious humanitarian reasons, however, PETA does not fall into such a category. I personally have my doubts of the genuine concern and the truth in their agenda statements. FYI, I am an animal lover and a vegan (a vegetarian who consumes no animal products).

• PETA has done nothing but help animals and fight the evil basic human society who are so egotistical that they refuse to believe that animals are being tortured to make their lives easier. They are some of the most respectable people in existence today.

• The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is probably one of the most polarizing organizations in the world, meaning: 'either you love them, or hate them' and not much in between. Supporters of the non-profit, Tax deductable organization know its philosophies, and adgenda. Critics often cite PETA's opposition, CCF (Centre for Consumer Freedom) Which is a lobbying company created by the Phillip Morris Co. but now owned and operated by fast food restaurants and their suppliers IE; Tyson food, Cargaill, Mcdonalds, and KFC to name a few. The CCF condemns PETA for its high euthanasia to adoption rate, yet PETA has never claimed to be an adoption agency, and offer a free euthanasia program to sick, suffering, and dying animals. PETA, unlike any other animal rights organization in the world, also offers free spay and neuterings to animals with families that cannot afford it. The CCF is also widely known for attacking many other respectable organizations such as: Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, and anti-obesity advocates.

• This will depend on your perspective. PETA's critics will tell you that PETA gives a great deal of money to convicted arsonists, domestic terrorists and known criminals if the group feels those people will help advance their cause. PETA's stated goal is to eliminate human interference in animals' lives. This would mean no having pets or service animals, everyone would have to eat a vegan diet (no meat, dairy or egg product foods, probably also no seafood), leather would be outlawed and the animals would be released 'back into the wild'. The underlying theme is that human interference in the lives of animals is always detrimental and the highest ideal is for humans to stop monkeying around with the natural lives of fellow living beings. The practical result of this would be to bankrupt nations (in the US, agriculture including animal agriculture is one of only two industries with a positive trade balance; the other is aerospace technology), result in mass starvation across the globe (plant diets have low caloric density and animal products are the fastest and most readily available sources of protein), and billions of animals would starve to death because they can no longer live in the wild due to selective breeding by humans (think of a Chihuahua in northern Maine). PETA's advocates will tell you that PETA is working towards improving the lives of animals through increased awareness of how egregiously humans abuse animals routinely - horses that are left to starve in the pasture, dogs that fight one another to the death after being trained to kill by their owners, toxicity testing of substances on rabbits, etc. Also, a meat-based diet is widely considered to be a primary reason so many of the first world countries have a major obesity and cardiovascular disease epidemic - reducing or eliminating meat, dairy and egg products from the diet in the United States will overall make American citizens healthier. There are now synthetic versions of leather and other animal-based products that work as well or better than the original "real" version. Personally, I think PETA consists of a large group of well-meaning supporters but is run by a few very radical activists who are willing to push far beyond what their donors would like to see happen. I suspect, but cannot prove or even provide much support, that a large number of PETA's financial backers would cut off their donations if they looked into what PETA believes, their stated goals and the methods they are willing to use to promote their beliefs. I don't think the large group of supporters are bad, just not well-informed; I fully believe that the leading radical activists are bad (morally corrupt) and that they are dangerous both to humans and to the animal populations they purport to be advocating for.

Answer 2

PETA as an organization is beyond wrong. Its focus on "saving the animals" is in dire contrast to the average 97% kill rate in its animal shelters. Its pairing of nude celebrities--mostly women--with graphic images of animals' deaths suggests a darker, more sexually deviant psychosis. Recently PETA added a porn site page to its website already chuck-full of hypocrisy.

The hypocrisy of PETA stands where they oppose no-kill shelters, and plan on protests for animals that were killed during training for entertainment purposes--recently they are planning on doing such a thing in opposition to the animals trained for The Hobbit movie. What is ironic is that they do not care about the animals that end up in their care. Animals that are adoptable are instead euthanized all because of their stance against animals as pets--as service animals, "beasts of burden," food animals, any animal that is in the care of humans.

This organization gets its way by use of false advertising, of taking advantage of people's emotional states to open their pocket books and take their money from them, of twisting what is true around and conveniently leave out certain truths so that a certain thing--such as the treatment of dairy cows--is more evil and damnable than it really is. Use of death threats and disregard for human life is a common place as well--an angry animal rights activist seems to be wanting to wish death upon those that oppose them.

Overall it can be seen as a dishonest, extremist cult, one that relies on lies, misconceptions, warped facts and dishonest truths to get its "message" out. Fortunately, karma has a way of catching up with those who do things that they will soon have to pay for in the end...

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Answer 3

No, unless you think humans are superior to all other sentient beings, but even that can be refuted by the direct relation between human liberation and animal liberation.

Many think so because PETA euthanizes animals, which seems hypocritical to their cause. If you can't find homes for millions of animals, and you don't have the room or money to take care of them, no life is better than a life full of pain and suffering. PETA receives many animals beyond means of saving, or receives just too many animals to take care of. It's tragic, but necessary.

PETA also has a tendency to advertise in crude and inappropriate methods, but I don't think that justifies calling them evil.

They're not evil, just a minority amongst a sea of defensive people unwillingly to change to alleviate the abuse of animals.

Another opinion:

Ironically from the statement above PETA's excuse to have a high kill rate is not because they can't find homes for them, but because it goes against their views of people having animals as pets. They also have this flawed view that all animals undergo pain and suffering when in the care of humans, which simply is not true at all. While there are those few that should never have animals in the first place, these animal rights groups tend to target these few individuals to make it seem like everyone who is innocent is to blame as well.

These crude and inappropriate methods to get their message across is blatantly disturbing, especially when they pair human nudity/sexuality with the graphic images of animal deaths. Their addition of a porn site to their web site is even worse. To consider deliberate adultery for nothing more than entertainment as not justifiable in calling them evil is outright ignorance!

PETA is a minority that uses threats, abuse, harassment and supports terrorism towards a society that should be defensive against such an outwardly libelous organization. The greater society is to not be swayed by such atrocities, dishonesty and warped facts that this organization tends to present about many such animal-related "enterprises," if you will, and those who continue to fight and speak out against this for-profit organization will continue to do so in the plight of the real truths of how animals live, think, act, and choose to rely on us for their existence.

Answer 4

Opinion # 1

Yes. It is helpful to know that there are people that'll help you and support you in fighting for animal rights. Also, they're worldwide known so reputation is a helpful ++.

Opinion # 2

No. PETA is helpful only to an extremely small minority of people who have chosen not to use animals. If you do not subscribe to their extremist views, then they are only an extremely obnoxious bunch of troublemakers. I'm all in favor of animal welfare (animal cruelty prevention), but I believe it's extremely irresponsible for a tiny minority of vegans to try to force their beliefs on the rest of us.

Answer 5

No, because animals are tasty :)

I thought PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals? So yes PETA is good.