I have never interacted with them but everything I've ever heard about them has been bad.

Nothing good here. They're a danger to animals just as much as people who abuse them.

PETA is a sad, pathehic shell of what it used to be / could be.
Now seems to me as if they just want attention more than actively defending animal rights.
Derp

this x1million^

I've never had any personal experience with PETA but I've heard nothing but horror stories about them.

PETA is full of dumbshits.

I never heard anything good about them that didn't come with a dark side. I think they do care about animals but take too much hay onto their pitchfork and don't know where to leave them all, if I were to pick an animal rescue organization to stand behind I'd take the RSPCA.

^ this :3

^ ^ This this

They're a bunch of nut jobs, at best. ... Just imo. :p I can't stand them, or how they proclaim how they're in it for the animals, when they're obviously not.

I can understand these guys trying to be nice folks...but they are so zealous on their ways.
I just think "they need to calm the fuck down" with a side of "think logically"

My goodness, that describes so many people and groups!

Pretty much exactly this, in my honest opinion. XD Everytime I meet a representative of PETA, I just want to slap them upside the head and tell them to switch to decaf.

I only know hear-say about the group. From what I have heard, they want to do the right thing but doing it the complete wrong way. As for many of the supporters, I think a lot of them probably do not realize what all PETA has done. Which is sad that people don't do their research, but I can't say much since I've done the same before. Plus, who would have guessed that PETA would do some of the stuff that they do. So for the supports, I think many are ignorant but truly mean well.

I regard them like other extremists: Their ideals are in the right place....but they dont seem to know how much is too much, and there are those who use their cause as justification for very STUPID things they do.

I think they're freakin' extremists. PETA is to animal rights groups as the Taliban is to Muslims.

Ohgod they use terrorist tactics too, like when they were trying to scare little kids at mcdonalds

ELF uses terrorist tactics more than PeTA does. I can't remember what organization did this but... they spiked trees for loggers... meaning, they stuck metal spikes in the trunks of trees so that when the loggers used their chainsaws, the chain would snap.

Err wait, was it ALF? idk

I've heard of ALF setting shit like Laboratories on fire for testing on animals, etc. so I wouldn't doubt if that is who you were thinking of.

PeTA's done that, too. They're whackjobs.

PETA sponsors the ELF and ALF.

The best was the ELF member who burned down a hummer lot, releasing more toxic fumes than what the vehicles could have produced in their entire useful lifetime.

Oh man wat
Burning tires is bad enough, but a whole lot of Hummers? People are such lovely creatures~

Yep, clearly, Geniuses, the lot of them.

Yep. No thinking at all, just knee-jerk gut reaction.

i'd put them closer to Westburo for idealism myself :) just as stupid. at least Taliban has brains within their means...afterall, whow would they have eluded their hunters for so long? XD

Yep, pretty much this. Getting on the wrong side of a group of PETA members recently legitimately made me fear for my safety (and the safety of my dogs!). X'D

... how can they kill more animals than they come in contact with?

they... dont. but let's say out of every 5 animals they find at someone's home, 4 of them are killed on the spot. these animals are later deemed 'un-adoptable' and PETA has absolutely no criteria for what makes an animal 'un-adoptable'

Well, according to the numbers in 2009, for every 8 that are rescued, about 1400 are killed. Not good numbers...the sad part his they are much more of a "stupid criminal activist" group than an animal rights group. I mean, their members have committed crimes and then outwardly admitted it. "Yeah, I burned down those buildings." I mean, every single stupid mistake a criminal can make, someone at PETA has done it....EVEN writing a book about it and declaring that you'd be willing to commit a crime.

All I know about PETA is those nude models doing commercial's for them. XD

Don't we all. Yum. lol.

I only hear bad things about PETA. They think they're so good and sit up on their high horse because they're with PETA.

Like... many vegetarians or vegans. they think they're superior to people who eat meat and animal products..

I. Hate. Vegans/vegetarians. Most of them, anyway. I have been lectured countless times because I enjoy a nice, medium rare steak opposed to steamed broccoli.

that sounds delicious... >w>

But yeah. Most of them are just... blech

I'm a vegetarian. T__T

But it's for religious reasons. So I don't preach. Honestly, I think meast is tasty tasty, and I worked in the meat industry for a year or so (which actually helped solidify my vegetarian stance, actually; killifying and butchering the critters yourself will do that).

actually, the slaughtering part of preparing my meals only strengthens my appetite.
Guess you can say I am one with my primal instincts >:)'

I can see from hunting, but I.. don't really get hunger pangs from watching cows eating grains and standing in their own fermenting crap all day, XD OR chickens for that matter. Free-range and hunted food is the BEST, and I love hunting and fishing, but good LORD are most commercially farmed critters appalling.

urgh hell yeah they're disgusting
but no, the appetizing part is the slaughtering part: like wringing a chicken's neck.
But it's only appetizing when it's a quick slaughter. I start feeling sorry for the poor thing if its slow :C

You're not one of those PUSHY vegetarians. :P

It's the pushy ones who yell at you about how evil meat is that get on everyone's nerves.

The only people I hate who are vegetarians for Religion are these annoying people who come into my work and BITCH AT ME all the time. I work in a pizza place and they always get Vegetarian pizzas and ask about 50000000 times "It can't touch meat, it won't touch meat, right? Does that touch meat? You know I can't have meat. Remember to use a clean cutter! IT CAN'T TOUCH MEAT."

And it would be find if they weren't ASSHOLES about it =3=

So... we mix their pizza sauce with ham juice in the back where they can't see.

They're annoying, I'll give you that, but that is seriously a dick move.

They have been doing this at least once a week for a year or two. I don't care what you think.

At least we're not spitting in it, but then again, that's vegetarian.

Dude, I need to sit you down and tell you very seriously that you need to STOP DOING THAT SHIT.

... Because we all need to know if they complain about the taste when the ham juice is gone!

SCIENCE DEMANDS TO KNOW

They'd probably be less assholey if people didn't do things like mix ham juice with their pizza sauce.

Just sayin'.

You do know there are some people who are legitimately allergic to meat right?

STEEEEEAAAAKKKKK. -DROOL-

From my understanding, there's a huge difference between vegans and vegetarians. I was told that vegans avoid any animal-related product because of the treatment the animal went through to obtain said product.

And then vegetarians don't eat meat just 'cuz. xD;;;


I personally don't like the idea of the animals that go towards being our foods being abused and put on hormones and whatnot just for the sake of said foods. And I don't like knowing that what I'm eating was once alive - but the fact of the matter is that meat is delicious. xD;;; and I hate veggies. =B;;;

I also hate chickens. But I love chicken. <3 Win-win there. Ha.

I KNOOOOOOW STEEAAAAKKKKK!

And that is true, yes. But on my side of the border, I live in Canada where you can get ANYTHING from free-range farms where animals are not pumped with hormones and it's advertised on their products. Our farmers pride themselves on hard work, not "How fast can we make this cow grow up so we can kill it?"

But meat. IS. Delicious. XDD And I love chicken so much

Ah, well GO CANADA!

x3

Might move there some day when the U.S. takes its final shit on its people. =3

I have no problem with Vegetarians. I have vegetarian friends who don't mind if I eat meat around them, and will never hound me about it. Heck I've eaten some of the meat-free food they've made and it's yummy!

Now Vegans? I can't stand vegans... They have such a superiority complex -.-

I just don't like the ones who PREACH to me like I'm some horrible monster because I'm barbecuing a burger :/

"I'm a level 5 Vegan, I don't eat anything with a shadow". XDD

Not all vegans are crazy, pretentious assholes, I promise :C I'm vegan, and I have no problem with people eating meat, etc around me. I'm not going to judge people for being normal XD
Unfortunately, all the crazy, preachy idiots (oh hey, PETA!) give us a bad rap, I suppose.

I'm all for the steak with steamed broccoli and a side of fried onions.

But yeah. PETA is a bunch of @$$es.

Oh my god I love onion rings so much HNNNNNNNGH!!!!! Want!!!

I like the people in PETA who actually DO good work

Not onion Rings. Fried onions. These: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2686.....fb8edc7a_o.jpg

OHHHHH! Those! YES! Those, too. Oh god I'm so hungry now D:

my sister is vegan... and while when she first became vegitarian she tried to push it on people... she doesn't anymore. :)
Some people do it for health benefits too. :3

Yeah, but their health benefit? They HAVE to eat plants that give them enough protein because not eating meat will actually hurt you :l

It gives you vitamins and proteins some plants can't do that we, as humans, need to live.

where are you figuring the proteins in meat come from? fairy dust?

all plant sources (except soy) contain incomplete proteins, which are proteins that lack one or more amino acids. combine two different incomplete proteins and you get complete protein.

furthermore, there are no vitamins that only come from animal sources.

it's perfectly possible to maintain a complete diet from vegetarian sources. it just requires some knowledge and planning, and vegan much more so.

i like my milk and cheese far too much to go vegan.

furthermore, the PETA are about 20 lbs of crazy in a 5 lbs bag.

Despite my slight lack of intellect when it comes to where the protein comes from, I do not feel it was necessary to insult me.

I KNOW it's possible to live off of just vegetables, never said it wasn't, it's just harder to do.

So fuck off.

i am sure they meant to say thankyou for the informative post

Thissss <3

Medium-rare steaks go -great- with steamed, buttery broccoli! Never understand vegetarianism of any stripe, since humans are omnivores by biology. We have fewer pointy teefs than carnivores (other than birds, who lack teef), and more pointy teeth than herbivores. There's a reason.

Exactly. The only thing that's making people think it's "wrong" is our human ability to think in abstract ways.

Well, I think some people don't eat meat for the simple fact that the animals are abused most of the time in slaughter houses.
I know some vegitarians/vegans don't see eating meat as wrong in any way, it's just the way the animals are killed. -shrugs-

I'd rather have both, honestly.

I've heard stories that PETA kills more animals than all shelters combined. Not to mention, PETA has been loosely tied with other violent and extreme animal rights groups that have been known to destroy property and kill to get their point across. Google PETA activities and crimes

I'm a member. Just like in the furry fandom, the crazies get all the attention. The majority of PETA is made up of perfectly sane people who genuinely care about animals. But the psychos get all the press.
The reason I like PETA is they don't discriminate with the animals they save--most animal rights groups only protect domesticated animals, whereas PETA will attack gruesome factory farms and defend against animal testing...saving cows, chickens, rabbits, rats...etc. And they promote vegetarianism/veganism, which I agree with.

Yes, I did know that. Most shelters do that, unfortunately. When there's no place for the animal to go, sometimes you really don't have a choice...it's better than leaving them starving on the streets, to die slowly. The excess of domestic animals is a symptom. People breeding and refusing to spay/neuter their pets is the problem.

Again, most animal shelters euthanize their animals. And I'm skeptical of information that extreme, especially if the internet was a source. (Lots of vegan-haters that absolutely love to bash on PETA.)
Assuming that is true, PETA still does a lot of good for animals that would otherwise get no attention. They're extremists, yeah. I don't agree with everything they do. But sometimes it takes extremists to bring attention to something that no one really cares about (such as the brutal treatment of animals we kill to eat.)
I support more than one animal rights group, of course. But PETA's the only one I see actively encouraging and spreading vegan ideals. So even if some of them are douchebags, I keep supporting them. Corruption is everywhere, and inevitable. Specisim is rampant in most animal right's groups and our society...but I don't particularly feel like arguing about it. I've read arguments for and against PETA, I've been in raging YouTube comment battles, and it doesn't really do any good on either side. I'm not impassioned enough about them to continue arguing in their defense, but I don't think they're evil, as many would say.
I'll keep sending a few bucks to varied animal rights groups once a year, PETA included. The world will keep spinning; animals everywhere will be saved, and animals everywhere will continue to die. I'll continue my vegetarian lifestyle and sit around waiting for the world to change--which it probably won't, in my lifetime. But now it seems my ramble has degraded into a philosophical rant, so I'll stop now. Sorry to offend, if I did.

No, it's pretty well documented they kill a lot of otherwise adoptable animals and do more killing than the public shelters that euthanize. Most of the public shelters have an 80/20 Kill to adoption rate, PETA is 90/10. Also, PETA supports breed specific legislature and kills all pitbulls. Notably after the Michael Vick investigation, PETA demanded the euthanasia of all the animals seized. Luckily the ASPCA was responsible for the rescue, and only needed to euthanize two of the dogs (one because of horrible medical issues, and the other was the only one who was not suitable for adoption). All the rest of the dogs were put into family homes, one of whom even became a therapy dog.

Secondly they support violent terrorism, in addition to backwards and hypocritical attacks. I mentioned above the ELF member who burned down a Hummer lot causing more environmental damage than the vehicles themselves could have. I don't agree with their bizarrely anthropocentric views(some how humans are the only animal not allowed to eat animal products. or they go one step further into crazy insisting we should force carnivores into vegan diets), and their end goal is to eliminate all domestic animals as they see domestication as a crime against nature. And of course, all of humanity with their beloved pets.

Yes, a lot of nice well intentioned people are part of PETA. Because they don't realize that it is NOT a good organization, that does very little if any actual work HELPING animals. Anywhere I've ever worked with animals, it has been unanimous that PETA should be destroyed.

My primary problem with PETA is their strong anti-pit stance. *shrug* I'm a vegetarian myself, and obviously since my line of work is animal rescue I support some of their ideas, but some of their concepts are just way too aggressive and out there for me.

I know how you feel. They can be a little ridiculous sometimes, but they're still doing some good, which I why I continue to support them despite the bad press.

Why not support the ASPCA or other animal rights groups who aren't so.... shady?

You admit PeTA can be ridiculously over the top and you're only in it because you care about the animals, but there's so many other groups without the criminal record that also fight (within legal bounds) for animal rights and who don't actively use scare tactics, falsified information, and terrorism to achieve their goals.

I wouldn't wouldn't be a part of that group even if I agreed with everything they stood for, simply because I would not want to support a group run by eco-terrorists. Whether many of the members are sane or not does not change the fact the group as a whole openly advocates breaking the law and putting human (and animal) lives in unnecessary danger.

Everyone I've seen affiliated with PETA save for maybe one person did not know animals at all, yet think no one but them 'understands and can care for animals better than they'. Sorry, I've worked with a whole lot of different species, I can tell when they're being idiots. Then they support and condone terrorist tactics, degrade women, and pretty much are terrorists in their own right, which has gotten them banned from countries. Also, the vegan/vegetarian thing...yeah, that would kill me. It fine if someone wants to do it, but they need to stop pushing their ideals off on other people and stop acting like it's so humane because it isn't.

People Eating Tasty Animals, they don't do there research in depth.

PETA?

People
Eating
Tasty
Animals?

I can understand wanting to keep animals safe but with the actions PETA take, every single member should be locked up.

I hear nothing but horrible stories that they steal family pets and kill them cause "having animals as pet is like slavery" and their protest....I mean ok I'm against wearing real animal fur but for christ sake throwing animal blood over people isin't gonna make people happy.

Fuck PETA, worst organisation ever, they do worse to animals than their own intentions.

Ok scratch what I said about every single member, just the ones who do the horrible acts of protesting.

I prefer the Other P.E.T.A...

People Eating Tasty Animals?

yummy

I've heard nothing about PETA save for them being completely insane. I've worked at an SPCA as well as an animal wildlife rehabilitation centre called FreeMe (I live in South Africa. We had a lot of truly wild animals, even some lion cubs.) and I'll still donate to both whenever I can, but I steer clear from anything PETA. I heard that they euthanize puppies and such to PREVENT THEM FROM BEING ABUSED. Its fucking crazy.

They are extremely ignorant and stupid at most times, but I can only justify the actions that have actually had an impact on helping rid the world of Animal Cruelty.

When I was a little kid I signed up with PETA to be, what I would think I was, a junior member. I used to get petitions to sign, information on what was going on in the world and they even helped me gain confidence in standing up against animal cruelty.

They're not ALL bad. I think the world just perceives them as horrible people because it's ONLY the horrible people who show up and do drastically retarded things in the name of the greater good. The real, intelligent members of PETA are actually working to save lives and not publicly humiliate themselves on a daily basis.

To me, it's the same as saying ALL Christians are Jesus freaks who burn literature and demand you convert to their faith. But only those cases are shown because the world is so fucked up we only seem to care about and want to see the horrible things and look away from the good until, every now and then, we get a soft story to "Awwww" about.

i personally dislike them. i'm all for animal rights, but when those rights include banning/murder of pitbulls and the extinction of cattle, that's not cool. there's a lot of corruption up their chain and a lot of fear mongering. there's so many better animal rights organizations out there...

PETA is one level away from being labeled as a animal-terrorism group if you give them assault rifles which most likely will be a matter of time. Like what Dragoneer said, they are leaning more and more extremists everyday.

arnt they the ones that were running around splattering red paint on celebrities fur coats?

You notice that none of these animal-rights fanatics ever throws red paint on the leathers of motorcycle gangs. Gee, isn't leather murder too?

If someone threw anything at my leathers, there would be problems for them...

If someone threw "blood" on me, it would be safe to assume it was tainted with AIDS, making this assault with a deadly weapon, battery, and a couple other interesting terrorism charges since it's either a "biological weapon" or a "hoax device".

If it's obviously paint, then it's still assault and vandalism.

PETA won't go after leather, after all, many of their members still enjoy the luxury of leather belts and shoes.


Consistent. B]

I hear nothing but bad shit about them including the fact they have killed more animals than they have saved. :(

I think it's a misguided organization with good intentions. They want to help animals, but their pursuit for more notoriety causes them to not help the creatures they're trying to save. :/

If someone wants to help animals, they should donate to the ASPCA.

This ^

The last time I met a PETA activist, he bawwed my Dog looks bad. Honestly, looks this pet sick or like it got bad treatment? http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1187932/

After he was done I pointed at my Doc Martens and said "These are made of leather and if you don´t want to feel them up your ass, you better get lost." These people have no idea how they should treat animals, even if their intentions are good and honest. The way they act and treat animals they "rescued" is cruel and needs to be punished.

I, like many of my friends, was all about PETA as a preteen.

And while I do have to give them credit for making me more aware of the conditions inside factory farms, and for being a factor in my former vegetarian lifestyle, for the most part the group is radically off the mark and doesn't even *attempt* to understand the situation around an animal before taking drastic (and often illegal) action... like the one you described.

Or when there was a protest against our local dogsledding community because the dogs live outside year-round (they'd be seriously MISERABLE if they were kept indoors) and are transported to and from trails in dog boxes (which are cramped, but keep the dogs from getting thrown around in case of an accident, and the dogs are only in there for an hour at the most, more often about 20 minutes). They were laughed off of the racing grounds. They had never spoken to an actual musher, never spent any time around sled dogs, never researched the physical and emotional needs of working dogs, and generally had no idea what they were talking about.

And too many people affiliated with PETA have done too many horrible things, as Google can attest.

TL;DR: I view them on par with the anti-abortion activists who, instead of picketing clinics, will bomb the clinics, assault the women who need to go to them, murder abortion-providers in their sleep, and then have the gall to call themselves "pro-life".

I think they'd earn much more respect if they just focused on one or two things — like vegetarian/veganism and the conditions in factory farms — instead of trying to break into labs to free the research monkeys who've been infected with ebola.

here here!

I agree as well! This all the way ^

PETA... oh good lord PETA is just ridiculous and silly now. No one listens to them or takes them seriously because of their past actions. You would be better off forming a whole new group with different methods

That seems to be the general impression. XD And yet pretty much every single member of PETA that I meet thinks they're hot shit, and that I instantly have a high opinion of them because of their affiliation with this organization.

It just astounds me how blind they are to their own reputation.

try eating in a place like chillis (pretty much the only place I eat ANY beef at all) and getting stared at and glared at. what the hell... then they have the balls to come over and start lecturing me on how horrible I am for supporting the murder of cows and whatnot... ITS NUTRITION! I dont normally eat red meat anyway

I would have just looked at them with a smile and continued to eat and say, "Omnomnomnom cows are YUMMMY!!"

YUM YUM CHICKEN OMNOMNOM

I would say that PETA has the right idea, but employs all the wrong methods.
It is obviously true that animal rights are something one should take into consideration, but the way they act is silly at best and borderlines terrorism at worst.

PETA scares me. They honestly believe that animals are more important then humans. It's totally cool to want to protect animals, but that isn't really what PETA wants. All you need is to hear some of the quotes of the president and co-founder, Ingrid Newkirk, to know that they are insane and don't deserve any support.

I mean, if “Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it.” or comparing eating meat to Nazi concentration camps doesn't say it all, I don't know what does.

Ugh, PETA. I'm vegan and can't stand them. I support animal rights but there's just too many crazies in that organization for me to feel they do any good.

I don't approve of terrorism.
nuff said

Well said. :D

Pretty much a cult who thinks they are saving and changing the world for animals....

I heard that they let took down a fence and let horses out and people complained so the horses were killed.

I can only sum it up in two words:

Fuck. PETA.

To put it more elaborately, they are an extremely hypocritical, violent cult (I refuse to see them as an "organization", they are a cult) being led by one of the most hypocritical, assholes who dares call herself a decent human being. They have stooped to levels that are subhuman to try to drive their agenda and they have been nothing but trouble.

Bunch of idiots, really. They generally have no real concept of ecology, or biology, or, for that matter much else. I recall an argument with one in which he insisted that seals eat krill!

PETA are simply nutcases who claim to be helping animals when they cause more harm than any other organisation.

A good friend of mine brought some meat he got from a hunting trip to a barbecue he was invited to -many other people brought along store-bought meat- and some woman from PETA whom was invited started bitching him out because of how cruel hunting is... yeah, bitching him out for hunting when the meat others brought were probably from factory-farms.. He tried explaining to her how hunting isn't nearly as cruel as said farms but she went crazy and grabbed a fucking butcher-knife and assaulted him. Needless to say the police were called.

Nice lady is lucky that the hunter she assaulted didn't carry concealed... or if he did, he judged her to be so inept as to not constitute a threat to his life and limb.

they scare even me

OMG THE TRUNCHBULL RUN AWAY

wait, PETA scares the TRUNCHBULL? WOW

ikr

PETA's stated goal is the elimination of all animal ownership. Humans have spent the last ten thousand years developing our relationship with animals, and we have depended on each other for a lot longer than PETA has been around. I read all the stories of PETA "rescues" killing dogs and dumping their bodies in the garbage (illegally), and it makes me furious. Poor deluded souls are surrendering adoptable animals to PETA only to learn later they have been killed, sometimes by being left in vehicles on hot days, and PETA made zero effort to find them homes. They kill up to 98% of the animals they take in (compared to 25%-40% for regular animal shelters, who don't have PETA's $millions to work with.) They have no reason for existing. They are parasites, and they are liars.

HSUS is very nearly as evil as PETA.

Oh yeah. PeTA believes that owning animals as pets is equal to slavery. They're against animal testing but... one of the owners/leaders/whatever takes insulin? Hahahha weird!!

What they did was they put animals down and threw them in a dumpster behind a restaurant or some shit.
ELF is bad too.

Err wait, was it ALF? idk

No, Earth Liberation Front.

Ah
ELF = Earth Liberation Front
ALF = Animal Liberation Front

I didn't know about ALF yet, but that makes me think of something else entirely.

PeTA is disgusting.
What makes me laugh about people bragging to you that they're associated with PeTA is taht... PETA SUPPORTS BSL
they're a horrible group, killing animals surrendered to them to be adopted out... and brainwashing children.
I mean for real, these comics aimed at kids depicting cute animals and telling them that if they don't change their lives, they're hurting the cute baby kitties and puppies and are animal abusers!! :(
Kind of reminds me of religion but whatever..

I KNOW RIGHT?!?! >___>

I run a pit bull rescue, and you are bragging to me about being in PETA?

*facepalm*

i have had no fond interactions with people who associate themselves with Peta.

I live in a province where people hunt seals once a year for a living, so many self righteous people come down here, telling us we shouldn't do this, without a fundamental understanding of the actual situation, and how it affects us either economically or environmentally, and for some dumb reason, they think we kill babies and mothers, which is a huge fine. It's not a slaughter fest, there are laws.

(i am not defending the seal hunt here, i just want to point out the lack of understand these people tend to have about what's going on here.)

I also had a classmate in 2d/3d animation that was so friggen pushy, she put PETA poster's around our classroom. :I
eventually she left the school all together, because we didn't respond to her ideals the way she had hoped.

don't get me wrong, i am all for animal rights, but PETA seems to breed ignorance.

I SUGGEST THEY UNBAN LUCKY RABBITS FOOTS ALSO HATE PETA

Extremists of any kind are dangerous, and PETA is that.

Can't stand them... I raise show rabbits, and they came and stole ALL of one breeder's rabbits and released them in the wild. These were little bitty Holland Lops, who have NO chance...

and they don't seem to understand that they just sealed the fate of those rabbits:
death by starvation, predators (domestic and wild), poison, exposure, and hundreds of other very real and sobering possibilities.

And it's not just your rabbits they've done those to. Peoples' dogs, cats, horses, and many other animals, including lab animals infected with dangerous and highly contagious diseases.

I swear to God PETA is going to be the mother of the zombie apocalypse.

Duuude I bet your are right!!

The bad thing is there were durpy little dwarf rabbits... http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/.....red-rabbit.jpg Yes let me tell you that looks like a rabbit that should make it in the wild!

oh god I just D'awwwed so hard. Such a cute little thing.

Speaking of the zombie apocalypse..... XD

http://features.peta2.com/zombies/Default.aspx

When I think PETA, I think Sea Kittens. It was a completely retarded campaign to have fish renamed to Sea Kittens to give them a more positive image, because "who would want to eat a sea kitten?" THEY'RE STILL THE SAME DAMN THING! You can call Africanized bees "sugar and spice" if you want, they're still going to sting you if you disturb their hive.

Personally I think it would be hilarious if food manufacturers went with the change. I would totally buy a box of frozen sea kitten sticks.

I have never had a good interaction with PETA. I used to raise, show and sell rabbits and we would almost always have them coming around the animal barns at the fair protesting the "cruel treatment" the animals were receiving because the weren't free. What they failed to realize is most of those rabbits wouldn't have lasted a week if released from their pens. We even had a few go so far as to run down the rows throwing open doors and attempting to release animals. Thankfully they were tackled most unceremoniously and no animals were hurt or lost.

People Eating Tasty Animals is a great organization!

I do love to eat sea kittens <3

Honestly I haven't found a fish I truly enjoy. Now scallops and shrimp, those are good.

...now I want fried scallops.

PETA has the right idea (there are a lot of non-PETA animal cruelty incidents going on), but unfortunately it's run by a bunch of fanatics who are willing to do anything, even endanger the animals they're supposedly trying to protect, to get their message out.

Heart's in the right place, but the mind's in a whole different galaxy.

dimension.

They fund domestic terrorism in the form of paying people to firebomb animal laboratories. So, fuck them.

PETA is just a vehicle for vegan extremists to spread their views.

For fuck sake, PETA euthanises the majority of animals that come into their care. They don't really care about the welfate of animals, they just want to spread their beliefs.

As an organisation they have done more to damage and slow down progress towards animal protection and rights. They with their little splinter group ALF have tarred the name of decent and dedicated animal rights activists across the world.

They're terrorists and are listed as such in several countries. They kill animals, act like they know everything about animals(yet they get so much wrong and are 'educating' the public with their bullshit), they degrade women, and of course.....their hate on pit bulls in disguise of 'it's better if they didn't exist, then they wouldn't be hurt'. Which if you turn that around on them, yes, they would be happy if humans stopped existing tomorrow...why they don't sterilize themselves or...worse...I don't know! Generally, they're idiots who think farming veggies and fruits is humane and doesn't hurt animals. There's clearing the land and getting it ready for sowing(which destroys habitat for animals and displaces them), pesticides to keep the plants from being eaten(don't bugs count? I rather like bugs), harvesting(have you ever smelled a swathed skunk?), and let's not forget transport and all the animals that get hit on the highway. -.-',,

Animal welfare in it's purest form(not the corruption that the HSUS is using-oh yeah, and HSUS are the law pushing, less 'look at us!' version of PETA, where...PETA is the show pony), I support. Basic, sensible laws and their enforcement. Animal rights can very well fuck off. Sorry if I'm a bit harsh, but...too many stories, too many sad stories and idiocy I have seen/read/heard.

PETB

I think their CAUSE is admirable, however I think they go way way too far with their methods. It's gotten to the point of extremism, and for that reason alone I see association with PETA more as a black mark than a gold star. There are better, more effective ways of fighting for a cause without resorting to some of the methods which they employ. Also, they seem to lack the logic that a lot of domesticated animals do not have the survival instincts to survive in the wild and yet they STILL release them! In fact, they do far more harm than good.

I'm a vegan and people always seem surprised when I say I hate PETA, but I think it's all the more reason why I SHOULD hate them. They're preachy, self righteous pricks who make everyone assume we're all preachy, self righteous pricks. On top of that, they're alienating way more people from veganism than they are recruiting. Very few people will listen to some pretentious prick trying to tell them everything about their lifestyle is wrong and evil, and I don't blame them.

On top of those reasons, there are the reasons everyone else hates them: Killing animals they say they're going to put up for adoption, releasing domesticated animals into the wild (either you're killing the pet of someone who probably was a good owner purely because they choose to put it in dog shows, etc, or you're releasing an invasive species into the environment where it will wreak havoc on the ecosystem. Dumbasses), exploiting women, etc, etc, etc.

The only thing they're good for are their undercover videos. Aside from that, the group has no redeeming qualities.

Half their videos are fake.

Do you have any sources to cite on that? Seriously though, if you do, please share them. I don't like being duped. Otherwise, let's not make up statistics.
As far as their factory farming videos go, they match up pretty nicely with the findings of other organizations, and I haven't heard any of the factories try and deny what was found. Then again, I can't say I've watched any PETA videos lately, so I won't pretend to know what they've been up to.
Believe me, I always treat PETA's "findings" with plenty of skepticism. They're a deceitful bunch for sure. But they're not the only animal rights organization out there who's been catching this stuff on film.

Eh, I admit I'm exaggerating. But they have repeatedly been found doctoring evidence and exaggerating things. I've even heard of a report or two where they were outright faking things.

I'm not saying that abuses don't happen, it's pretty well known in fact, however, PETA does pull stunts to maximize impact.

And I really wish I could remember where I picked up all the sources, as some of them are published works, but alas, I really don't care enough to research further.

I'll admit to intellectual laziness, that I'm too biased against PETA to listen to what they have to say.

In all things, I'll support the organizations that I know are working, and continue to discourage anything positive about PETA, if for nothing else than outright funding domestic terrorism.

Fair enough. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest to hear of them stooping to that level.

And I can definitely respect that last statement. Fight the good fight! ^.^

They are hypocritical, delusional monsters who support domestic terrorism. I hate their guts.

PETA is the "rich persons" animal rights group...kinda like buying a Prius. It looks like you're helping the environment, and it makes you look good, but let's face it, PETA is fake and stupid and doesn't really do anything for animal rights at all. Protesting things, doesn't usually solve anything. Usually, it just makes a lot of people really mad at you.

But from what you describe, PETA is to animal rights as Western Baptist Church is to Christianity; it gives other animal rights groups a bad name.

Just like how a Prius actually harms the environment more through production alone, it's a perfect analogy, that.

Only problem is that the WBC is a small group of individuals nobody takes seriously, while PETA is a large group of individuals that many people do take seriously.

The "Animal Rights" movement itself is exactly what PETA is about: Eliminating human 'exploitation' of animals, including all uses in food, medicine, or even as companions.


There is a HUGE difference between "Animal Rights" activists and "Animal Wellfare" activists. :) Don't donate to Animal Rights groups. A lot of the BIG national/international organizations are "animal rights" groups, but they get money from well-meaning doners who don't know any better. HSUS doesn't operate a single shelter, they just bank on the "humane society" in their name as a cash draw. You're far better off donating to a local rescue or shelter.

*My info on HSUS may have been out of date; apparently they do sometimes help support shelters. However, they are still mostly a lobbying organization. More reputable than PETA, but still, your money isn't doing as much good as it would given directly to a shelter.

this is all i have to say.

http://i.imgur.com/dXAO2.gif

Well that was informative. And makes me think PETA is crazy and absolutly ridiculous!
PETA=FAIL

I'm a vegetarian and all for the just treatment for animals and their environment but yet do not associate myself with them. They are radicals who use questionable methods who don't deserve to call themselves animal rights activists.

Insufferable, ignorant, delusional, hypocritical, hateful, deranged, terroristic, attention-whoring... Need I go on?

I loathe PETA. Even its less extreme members are so insufferably "La la la I'm right you're wrong YOU'RE JUST BIASED I'M NOT LISTENING!" that I just want to cuff them soundly upside the head. And the more extreme ones ought to be securely straitjacketed and locked up in a padded room, where they can't cause any more harm to others or themselves.

They will never have my support, in any way, shape or form. Even if I'd been willing to give them half a chance before, their "serving children meat is CHILD ABUSE" campaign would have turned me off to the idea in a heartbeat (as it stands, it just made me loathe them even more as a survivor of, and a close friend of several more survivors of, real child abuse.)

PETA disgusts me. I'd rather give an entire year's worth of commission payments to the local Guardian Angels shelter*, than give even one red cent to that raving lot of lunatics.



*And I honestly would love to do just that, instead of only being able to donate a little bit here and there. One of these days...

People for the Extermination of Top-notch Animals.

PETA's name is a great. I'm all for the ethical treatment of animals as long as it doesn't get in the way of saving human lives and such. The actual organization is a hypocritical bastardization of the idea of protecting animals. They fund domestic terrorists and their ideas are absolutely absurd (all pets would be banned if PETA had their way), and without animal products you can say goodbye to major medical advances and such.

So yeah, I dislike PETA greatly. When they pay the bail of a guy who firebombed a completely legal laboratory, they don't get my sympathy.

Sounds like you're about right, there. While a good idea, and there's probably good people within the organization, they do generally seem to be doing more to hurt animals than to help them.

My question is: if humans are such a blite, why don't all the PETA members, including Ingrid just kill themselves. Do us all a favor...although, suicide bombings will probably come next.

It's probably been said by everyone else but, Peta is a group that promotes animal liberation and based upon what various folks state internally are against things like owning pets along with a variety of extreme view points and associations with terrorist groups. While I'm sure there are some members that could be dissuaded from continuing their association with said group, I think it's generally a group for nutcases and extremists.

Fuckwits.

Only because I have no other words.

There's a reason we coined the term "PETArd" for them.

Nothing more needs to be said.

You could, however, tie THEM up and leave them in a hot car for a few hours...

umm ..... i th9nk if anyone can get the goverment to stop giving them money and also arrest all the rich fat bags that support the nazi organization peta...


i think the world would have a swell and happy last.... umm bout year and a half or less befor the end of times? ^^;

They go too far. That's all I'm going to say.

Well I can honestly say I learned alot from this journal and it's comments.
I'd heard of the acts of domestic terrorism before... but not much about it.
I didn't know half of things they do, and it sickens me to learn of all the horrible things they do.

They are like a furry that humps random people in public, in suit, trying to recruit the average person to the Furry fandom.

Even as a vegetarian, verging on vegan, I can't stand PETA as well. I personally support something like Farm Sanctuary, who ACTIVELY takes in abandoned and/or abused farm animals, and promotes veganism and Animal Welfare in a way that isn't going to make people WANT to rebel or punch people in the face.
Hell, it was PETA that took me so long to pick up my vegetarianism, and it wasn't until seeing the people at Farm Sanctuary doing what they do, and seeing the animals so happy and healthy compared to when they came in....

I was personally won over with kindness, and not someone calling me a murderer, so maybe I have a bias.
It also doesn't help that every-single-thing on their webpage sounds so self-righteous that it could choke a horse...
No pun intended.

^This this this a thousand times this <3

Problem is most members love animals without knowing shit about them. I've seen more knowledge from zoosexuals. In one of their articles on the main page their mission statement is to eventually let all domesticated animals go extinct through neutering and banning of breeding. That is why you have cases of people buying up puppies to have to euthanize them for instance.
Their top members feel the current state of farm animals, the dog and cat are pathetic and though they should have a loving home and joyful life, eventually it's best to let them go because they can no longer live on their own in the wild like it is 'meant' to be.
You know what I think this video will speak for me now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4jZ_BV4MQ4
Other animals = humans is fucking retarded. Yep they breath, fuck, and eat... and do nothing else, that's equal!
I love animals their great, and I'm aware mammals have emotions. But even the most advanced mammals below us, chimpanzees only have limited capacities of understanding and thought process compared to us.

PeTA is full of retards
Zoophiles are dumber than PeTA.

At least PeTA supports putting animals out of their misery. Zoophiles like to force them to live with emotional trauma. I'd support/donate to PeTA causes before I'd support/donate to zoo causes.

lol.

Yeah I find it all funny too

I am a former vegan and was once a supporter of PETA, though I was not at the time in a position to support them financially. Over time it became apparent to me that not only PETA but the animal rights movement more generally had some seriously messed up priorities. See, for instance, this article about Knut the polar bear: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=255770 Apparently, animal rights activists think it is better for animals to die than live in captivity. I might agree for certain kinds of captivity (e.g. factory farming) but it really seems as though the stance of the animal rights movement is that we should have nothing to do with animals. Of course, not everyone in the movement is like this; Peter Singer (technically a utilitarian but his book Animal Liberation is widely credited as the beginning of the animal rights movement) has endorsed bestiality, though he is nearly alone in the movement on this. Most of the animal rights movement is based on the idea of no compromise, and that is not a good position to be arguing from.

As to PETA in particular, a lot of it has to do with its founder, Ingrid Newkirk. She seems to be of the opinion that any publicity is good publicity. Check out Ingrid Newkirk's will: http://www.peta.org/features/Ingrid.....ique-Will.aspx Yes, I linked to PETA's website, to show that this is not some overzealous critic making stuff up. There is a great deal more that I could do in real life to improve the lives of non-human animals, but any such actions I may take in the future will not be through supporting PETA or any other animal rights organization.

oh yeah I remember that shit. They'll argue that animals are depressed living in captivity. Ok well if they are alone with no interaction with anyone whether their own kind or trainers. (depends on the animal) they go insane with isolation and boredom but I doubt any of these zealots think that much. As far as beastiality goes... well logic dictates I agree with this guy... despite his horrible voice.
Legalize Prostitution, Polygamy, Bestiality and Incest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeKL.....layer_embedded

The irony about the Knut case is that a few years later he died of some kind of seizure. So now the theory is that the mother knew that there was something wrong with him and pushed him away for good reason. However this does not mean that he didn't deserve a chance at life.

I pretty much agree with what most other people have said. PETA, although might have the right idea initially, are bat shit insane. Most of the big wigs are hypocritical and plain unrealistic. I wouldn't be surprised if they suddenly changed their tune to start saying ''everything must die but animals - because then animals can live without people and eat each other until their hearts content.''

I was pretty appalled when I heard that PETA were against all forms of domesticated creatures. My friend (who was studying to become a vet at the time) went on to tell me that even wild horses wouldn't survive, despite not being owned people still feed them and if no one took care of them this way they'd die too. Say good bye to cute farm animals and duckies too not just every cat and dog on the planet.

PETA just makes me angry for so many reasons to be honest I wouldn't even know where to start talking about it.

There was a recent movement to outlaw the sale of any living creature that crawls, flies etc. They are just full of retards.

I'm surprised they haven't said ''Death to all living things!'' yet

From what I hear,
PETA is to animal rights;
as the Westburo Baptist Church is to Christians :B

No, 'animal rights' is to 'animal wellfare' as WBC is to C :p

They're nut-ball extremists.

And most of the everyday joe's that support them are so painfully ignorant it's not funny....

Wow..long thread!

I'm a vegan who is anti-BSL and a huge pit bull lover too! PETA is not my cup of tea nor have I ever donated to them. Other groups that I have a lot more respect for are Mercy for Animals, Sea Shepherd, Farm Sanctuary etc. I agree with the basic principles of PETA (ie. animals are not commodities) but I don't like their advertising.

They're idiots. Reckless, dangerous fools.

I believe they are complete and utter morons and assholes (pardon my french) who contradict themselves. They think that they're doing good for animals but then they go around and kill more animals than the animal shelters... perfectly adoptable pets! Seriously, what the hell PETA?

People Eating Tasty Animals are environmental terrorists that should be incarcerated.

Loathe.
Despise.
Hate.



PETA = Filthy hypocrites.

I heard they protested a horse event where they ran around opening stalls and ripping the bridles off horses WHILE PEOPLE WERE RIDING THEM. Nut jobs.

Propagandists at best, eco-style terrorists at worst.

Peta are not for animals.
They never have been and never will be.

PETA is not pro animal.
it is merely Anti-Human.

this

They're nuts, and their thoughtless actions have set real animal activism back to the stone age.

PETA, good ideas and intentions but done out in the wrong way and are much too one sided with their thinking.

I agree in the cause to stop animal cruelty but they want it further than that, they want it so NO animal is subject to humans so pets and food are not possible in PETAs eyes.

PETA has an animal rescue.. the amount of pets they get in vs the amount that gets adopted are ridiculously low. More than half the animals that go in get killed because ideally they would rather people not adopt and own the animal at all to POSSIBLY be subjected to abuse. They have one of the lowest adoption rates(not fees) in the country because of this.

PETA = People for the Eating of Tasty Animals!

as far as anything else goes, they are a left-wing blow hard bleeding heart hate group even worse than the KKK because they choose to support the rights of FOOD over living breathing THINKING human beings.
what's worse is they have been hi-jacked by militant extremists that are borderline terrorists.

and they are a bunch of fucking hypocrites too. their "No Kill Policy doesn't extend inside the doors of their multi-billion dollar world headquarters where 66% of all animals dropped off at their front doors are stuck in a freezer overnight until DEAD.

PETA gets off from watching animals suffer. Why else would their entire website be horse slaughter, animals skinned alive and puppy mill cases. I get nauseous after visiting their site so I flat out stopped going.

I prefer things more like "Best Friends" "Dumb Friends" or my local "Coconino Humane Society."

P sure they don't get off on watching animals being killed

However, I do believe they set up animal abuse videos like skinning animals alive.

They would happily stage that shit themselves if it helps their agenda.

PETA consists of:

* Poor little rich kids who have no clue what REAL problems are, a.k.a. "useful idiots"
* Rebels without a clue who just want to have an excuse to bitch about... well, anything, really, as long as it reminds them of their parents, a.k.a. "people who never grew up"
* Thugs and sociopaths who just want to hurt people, and claim to support PETA's cause only because it gives them an excuse and a bunch of fools who will shelter them, a.k.a. "terrorists" (in the proper sense of the word)
* Self-loathing psychotics who transfer their self-loathing to their whole species, thus diffusing personal responsibility, a.k.a. "moral cowards"
* Non-thinkers who believe it's bad when a human shoots a deer in the head (Bang! Lights out!) but perfectly okay when a cougar slowly tears a deer into shreds while it's still alive and feeling, a.k.a. "hypocrites"
* People who genuinely believe that PETA can reduce suffering (somehow), a.k.a. "good people who have been lied to". I think there's maybe three of these.

PETA does far more harm than good to the cause of ending mistreatment of animals. They are alternately clowns and thugs, and their antics smear the reputation of other more legitimate animal-protection organizations like the Humane Society and the SPCA. They know this, and just don't care. They're in it for the rebellion and the an excuse to break windows, not the animals' welfare.

Aside from the fact that their number one goal is $$$, their secondary goal is to end animal ownership totally. No good intentions at all. There are much better organizations that are against animal cruelty that you can support.

Peta is not a legit organization, they kill more animals than they save, their dogma is as insane as any religious cult and just as unreasonable, they openly support terrorist organizations such as the a.l.f and they are willing to stoop to extreme methods to achieve their goals. Penn and Tellers bullshit show covers a lot of this in their episode on Peta.

PETA disgusts me to a depth that few other creatures that crawl upon their bellies and lie through their teeth can.
They are anti pet ownership, anti exotic animal ownership, portray hunting as some kind of intentionally cruel murderfest, kill untold scores of animals through shitty liberation efforts and by flat-out euthanizing adoptable animals, fuck with efforts to HELP the environment*, provide biased and misleading facts to the general public, and scare little children into believing that their parents kill animals and that all zoological societies and aquariums hate and abuse their livestock.
I have two Boa Constrictors that I love with all of my heart, and I have been drawing up plans for a secure tropical outdoor enclosure/mini botanical garden for them to enjoy when they grow to their adult sizes of 6+ feet. They would only be in it while under my direct supervision, there would be a walk-in entry point from the house, and it would be made out of ungalvanized, plastic-coated wire mesh and waterproofed wood. However, my current home is in a heavily wooded area separate from neighborhoods in a slowly growing town in Florida, where PETA attacks are low risk. When I head off to(hopefully) Gainesville University to study wildlife management, ecology, and herpetology, I'm scared that they will be at risk. For this reason, I'm also sketching up plans for a tank that will be A) collapsible for travel, B) have sliding glass or PETG doors and C) an option to lock it and keep crazies from stealing my snakes. With all of the stupid lies and shit Animal Planet is spewing off about "Ebil exotic man eating snakessss!!!!111one" I'm already keeping my mouth shut around mundanes that I own them. It was the same way when I had my Pit Bull/AmStaff- I was so scared to tell anybody but friends that I owned one. With batshit insane PETArds on the loose you can NEVER be too safe.

*they recently celebrated the denial of admission of a law that kept.. Ohio, I think.. from allowing people to treat cats as varmint animals that can be shot when on one's property without visible identification. Considering that cats are one of the top 30 or 40 worst invasive species on the planet(the list included all living things, even plants) AND that I have firsthand experience with their murderous nature, the fact that they were acting like they had spared pet pussy-cats from being slaughtered like chickens was... sickening. The law's original intention was to allow land owners to kill feral and stray cats that are transmitting diseases to domestic and wild animals and are killing indigenous animals, not to allow hunters to maim Mittens and Fluffy(who shouldn't even be running free, especially without a collar).

I'm amazed at the wide range of reactions...

Personally? I feel that their hearts are in the right place (in that they want to help animals) but their brains are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay in the wrong direction. I always stress with everyone I talk to that it's HUMANE TREATMENT of animals and not animal RIGHTS, which is what PETA tries to put forth. I realize that there are some definitions of animal rights which I would accept and I'd like to not have a bunch of people correcting me on that, but PETA's idea that we shouldn't own animals, that we should rename fish "sea kittens" because "people don't want to eat cute cuddly kittens." Just... no.

I've been a member on and off for almost 30 years, so my opinion is probably a little biased...

I'll have to go ahead and disagree with the people who think PETA's hearts are in the right place...
~Force everyone to go vegan (ruin lives of animal industry workers, cause job loss, violate basic human rights and nature, force expansion of veggie farms ruining natural habitat and further crowding wild animals etc.)
~Abolish hunting (No funding for animal conservation from hunting tickets, increase on poaching)
~Genocide of domestic animals (do I really need to expand on that statement)
-...
I could go on but it just makes me frustrated and angry that retarded celebrity and good ole brainwashed avg Joe dosn't know this shit is what they are donating into.

They're pretty fucked up.

Didn't they try to get ice cream to be made out of human milk instead once?

they lack common sense. and the comic they do for thanksgiving is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. they are teaching kids that even cooking meat is gross. they make me rage lol

http://features.peta.org/CookingMama/

Dragoneer made a point up there! >w> It seems so... they are strange for me...

For the most part they are TERRIBLE TERRIBLE people in my eyes.

A terrorist cult

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p.....ptitle06aht2ly

'Cause I actually like animals and animal rights, but....

Not to be trusted. Their name is a misnomer, if not an outright lie.

Yeah, I have nothing more to add. I admit, I'm a little surprised by how well informed everyone is. I expected a few more people trying to defend PETA, because I know there are more than a few super naiive furries, but even the best that was given for them admitted that PETA is run by a bunch of hypocritical whackjobs.

I don't understand why it still exists. But then, I don't really understand why we still have so much serious racism, sexism or homophobia in our society.

LOL I'm not about to read ALL of these comments, I'll just throw in my two cents. As a vegetarian of over ten years who recently went vegan and is active in animal rights, I agree with what PETA claims to stand for, or SHOULD stand for. However, I have heard too many foul rumors about them and so much negative press. In many cases I think they just hurt the cause with their actions. That being said, I do have an epic little cookbook by them that I was given. For cheap, easy to make (in the microwave) vegan meals. For me, someone who is anything but a chef, this is an awesome book and the only one I've ever seen like it. ^_^ So, I couldn't care less if it just happens to be written by two people involved in PETA.

So, to sum it up.

PETA = Eh. Not sure where I stand. Awesome message, not so awesome actions/people. They could have something epic here if they did it right.

Vegan Foodz = YUMZ

Their intentions are good, and they make good videos (revealing what goes on in slaughter houses and fur farms and such), but their methods are SHITTY. They're extremists, and generally extremists are not desirable.

They pay the staff to torture the animals for those films in order to get more support for their "good cause."

I dunno, the Chinese fur farm one looked pretty legit. It didn't look like something that was easily set up. I have seen stories of them stealing and killing horses from a boarder that was apparently mistreating them and other things like that, though. The people are crazy.

but nylak i thought you loved murdering adorable puppies and cute kittens D:

Bad bad bad bad bad. Interestingly enough, the Humane Society of the United States is real similar, just they aren't extremists. Look into it. All about money.

People, if you want to really support animals, donate to your LOCAL shelters. They're the ones that need the help.

The number of animals they kill in their shelters is astounding.

I'm sure someone posted this already (probably dozens of times, but I'm not reading all the comments), but here's my opinion of PETA: http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

PETA sucks ass.