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Peta 'issues' and my opinions on them
Animals Are Not Ours to Eat -I disagree, we can eat animals an dairy products eggs etc. but should only eat meat, eggs etc from humanely farmed animals.

Animals Are Not Ours to Wear agree 100%, unnecessary in this day and age.

Animals Are Not Ours to Experiment On . Agree 90%-only important medisense should be tested now (important means life saving or greatly improving quality of life). in the meantime other methods should be sought and tried.

Animals Are Not Ours to Use for Entertainment agree partially-depends on what the entertainment is and how the animals re treated/cared for.

Sheba

Animals Are Not Ours to Abuse in Any Way agre 100% but according to opinions above.

I agree with almost all of their goals, but the extreme tactics they employ are often just the wrong way to go about it. What they do isn't going to get people to take their cause seriously; sometimes they may actually do damage to the animal rights movement and make us all look like "wackos" (though if you ask me, the only wackos are the ones who abuse animals in the first place.)

all is agreed with sheba, same here.

PETA is a dangerous activist group. They plant incendiary devices at fast food restaurants and cut the brake lines of delivery trucks for starters. Their philosophy is to gain attention by threats. They're just a bunch of homeland terrorists.

When thinking of animal rights, don't think of PETA. Although they appear to believe in animal rights too, the way they put thousands of pets to sleep says otherwise. That, and this warm, fuzzy conglomerate donates thousands of dollars to activist groups around the nation. That's much more money than they care to spend on helping find homes for homeless pets.

Just to show you how sick and twisted these people really are, this is a real comic released by PETA targeted towards children... Don't click if you don't like blood.

As for animal rights, I agree that animals deserve the same amount of respect we show ourselves. Teenagers shouldn't be burning puppies in the oven, and braindead football players shouldn't be breeding dogs for fights.

I completely agree with you Sheba. I find PETA very in-your-face. According to them, 'eating any kind of animal based product makes you fat.' How?
Anyway, I think it was very disrespectful of them when, shortly after Steve Irwin's death, they said that 'he harmed animals for money.' I've been a fan of Crocodile Hunter for many years, and I've never seen him hurt an animal. I'd rather listen to Steve's 'Love all nature' message to PETA's 'Hate all Humanity' message.

I dint like leather etc myself but I do agree with you Oultlaw.

Sheba

I agree with you. When humanely farmed. If they're going to be like that then technically Gazelles are not Lion's to eat and Caribou are not wolves'. We're mammals too.



Agree. There are so many beautiful faux fur items to buy. Why would you want to wear a dead animal, honestly?



Agree entirely with Peta. This is cruel even for medical purposes. I know that people say 'you can't put animals before people' and 'it saves lives' but these animals shouldn't have to suffer for our survival. As for cosmetic testing, don't even get me started.



Agree with Peta partially. Depends what kind of entertainment. I don't mind things that the dogs enjoy that we can watch such as agility trials, obediance e.t.c. but any circus acts and stupid dog trick things (Like teaching them to dance on the hind legs and all that) I disagree with.



Agree.. with both Sheba and Peta.

I disagree with peta now, ther ar othe animal welfar organeioons that dont go to extremes like P.E.T.A-i.e R.S.P.C.A.

Sheba

Animals aren't ours to eat- Agree and disagree. Like Sheba said if Farmed Humanely I'll eat it.

Animals Aren't Ours To Wear- Back then it was okay because it wasn't wasted. But now most of the time it is wasted. So no.

Animals Are Not Ours to Experiment On- 100%! Make up and Shampoo testing is just cruel. But if it can't harm the animal(Which I doubt it wouldn't) and wouldn't put them through any suffering then...STILL NO!

Animals Are Not Ours to Use for Entertainment- Depends on what type of Entertainment. I'm not a Idiotic person who goes on Youtube and yells that teaching your dogs agility and such is cruel. Or am I going against holding your cat upside down to the ceiling. MY CAT LOVES THAT! She won't even care she's up there because she's up high a lot and I carry her like a baby so she's facing upwards. But if it's for dog fights and such- THEN NO!

Animals Are Not Ours to Abuse in Any Way- Total Agree.

Animals Are Not Ours to Eat - Excuse me, but it is natural for the human diet to include meat. If you notice the human mouth, there are canine teeth which were designed to slice through meat. Animals eat other animals in the wild, why don't they object to that?

Animals Are Not Ours to Wear - I'm on the fence on this one. I like leather and I'm sure it's a side product of the beef industry, so I'm cool with leather. Furs I'm not so sure because synthetics can look just as good, and animals that get turned into fur, that was their only purpose. So to me, the fur industry just seems impractical.

Animals Are Not Ours to Experiment On - I think that experiments of putting chemicals in the eyes of animals, when the scientists full heartily know that the chemicals are harmful is just dumb. Animal experimentation is fine when the scientists have reasonable confidence that the procedure won't hurt the creature.

Animals Are Not Ours to Use for Entertainment - No no no no. People love animals and I think that most domestic bred animals don't mind at all at being domesticated. As long as the animal is well treated, all is fair.

Animals Are Not Ours to Abuse in Any Way - Animals shouldn't be abused at all. Animals are living creatures and they have psychological needs and health needs. Failing to keep up to those needs isn't just morally wrong, but can have backfiring consequences. So not abusing is also in interest of the owner.