Apologies for the following rant:
**** Peta to hell. Did it ever occur to them that people are also animals?
And if animals are so great and deserve equal treatment, why don't they go kill a load of chimps for hunting monkeys? Zoos save species. Dogs need owners. people need medicine. By all means promote animal welfare - animals can suffer and feel pain, but that just means we should kill them humanely for meat and fur. And no one who owns a fur coat they bought from a store actually killed anything themselves. Oh, and having read that ridiculous comic book, someone should point out that 'all those lovely foxes' are intelligent creatures that, given the chance, enjoy killing for sport. Animals don't have rights! Yeah, lets give oysters the vote. that'll solve all the world's problems. Animal rights is totally different from animal welfare (in fact in most cases the two terms contradict each other.) And another thing, if Peta hate people so much, logically they should all commit suicide. That might be a campaign I'd support.
BTW I didn't sign the petition cos they might hunt me down and kill me in COLD BLOOD. But that doesn't matter I'm only human. Honestly. In the UK we have this great pressure group called Pro-Test, which was set up by a 16 year old in Oxford to campaign for animal testing, because he just got so pissed off with the ALF (or something similar) protesting against a new animal lab at the university.