Another obnoxious PETA post

[PlatyPius 5]

PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals.

They make me sick. They place animals over humans. If they just wanted "equal rights" for animals, it would be one thing. But they promote animals as being BETTER than humans.

Yet....they kill HOW many dogs and cats each year in their shelters?

[Alex+R 0]

PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals.

They make me sick. They place animals over humans. If they just wanted "equal rights" for animals, it would be one thing. But they promote animals as being BETTER than humans.

Yet....they kill HOW many dogs and cats each year in their shelters?

Do you mean the ASPCA? They have high-kill shelters...PETA doesn't have shelters at all. Either way, the kill/no-kill issue is really complicated (though I come down on the no-kill side) and implying a kill shelter is wrong is a little simplistic. Still, that's neither here nor there.

I'm not sure when I've ever seen PETA place animals over humans. They've done some ridiculous stunts that lose them respect, but when exactly have they placed animals over humans?

[Mags 112]

Actually, I'D place animals over humans any day, but I still hate PETA and their obsession with self promotion. They are everything about animal activism that I hate.

[Sprailenes 47]

I would like to go to a PETA protest and throw raw meat at them.

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

yea bojangles is better

Dude, send me a chicken biscuit. Pronto!

[pedroh 21]

yea bojangles is better

Dude, send me a chicken biscuit. Pronto!

woot

[AnewKINDofFEELIN 0]

We don't have Bojangles here, so I always stop and get a chicken biscuit when I pass one.

[pedroh 21]

Bojangles > ALL

well,, except the chicken coup in downtown charlotte nc.. best fried chickin evarr

[maya62 7]

I've worked on a farm that raised chickens commercially. Not pretty. The chickens were kept in "battery" cages... 3 or 4 chickens in a space a little bigger than a milk crate. The chickens' upper beaks are cut way back (yes, while they are still very much alive) because they will peck each other to death if one of them gets the tiniest little wound. They're extremely stressed and unhappy animals living a short, miserable life.

I'm not going to weigh in on the PETA thing, but I think anyone who exposed the cruelty of factory farms is doing something that needs to be done in this country. Shoppers buy neatly packaged meat at the store and have no idea about what happened before it got there, not to mention all the hormones and other chemicals IN the meat. Yuck.

I am no longer a vegetarian, but I am MUCH more conscious of where our meat (and all food) comes from. We get chickens from a local farm that raises them in a humane and healthy manner, with attention to the effect their farm has on the environment, too (which is another HUGE problem with factory farmed meat). This year, we were also given a deer that was killed by a local farmer... my husband has made some fantastic curried deer meat this winter.

I urge people to pay attention to their food source, not only for their own health, but for the well-being of the animals thy are eating (all of whom have the capacity to suffer), and for the health of the environment.

Best wishes,

Maya