I skimmed the web site and it doesn't look bad to me. What's with this negative stigma around it. I would really like it people would tell me exactly why PETA is such a bad thing.
Because they use negative propaganda, photo manipulations, and scare tactics to inforce their mostly uneducated opinion on the treatment of animals. The site looks great and makes it look like a great cause to fight for, which is exactly why it looks that way. On purpose, to make you feel like it's the best thing since sliced bread, but when those people are confronted with facts (such as accurate data on animal disasters such as oil spills or medical research facilities/zoos/circus policies on the care of their animals) put to them by scientific minded people (whether they be researchers or professionals such as doctors, professors, or other activists) they scream that the facts are misleading and biased. Facts can't be biased....they are either facts or not facts.
They also tend to take a radical movement in regards to their "pushing back" against people who don't think like they do. Instead of protesting peacefully the use of animals for fur clothing, they'd rather throw fake blood on the coat of an innocent passerby on the street, whether the coat was synthetic or not. To quote myself a few posts back, they use lasers to manipulate photos, causing animals to react, giving them the shot they want. They also tend to "free" medical test animals, pet shop animals, and zoo animals. By letting them loose, they are only harming the animals. How many tropical birds can exist in our world without the proper food? Not many. Their supposed "no-kill" facilities euthanize hundreds of animals a day all in the name of animal liberation.
I disagree with their anti-meat, anti-dairy policies. You only have to look in the mirror at a human set of teeth and realize that our bodies were meant to eat both meat and plant material. Our bodies digest it efficiently and with a well-rounded diet there is little need for supplimentation. Vegans strictly adhere to a diet that need to have extra supplimentation in the form of protein because they cut out the protein in their diet when they refuse to eat certain things. Meat is the most easily digested and utilized protein there is. I congratulate vegans and vegitarians on their willpower, it's just not a life I could choose for myself or my animals. There are PETA approved sites on the internet advocating the same no-meat diet for cats and dogs, which is biologically flawed. Cats are carnivores. End of story. You can't change millenia of existence just because you don't think eating meat is morally correct.
They have also been known to accost children outside their school handing out anti-meat product flyers with messages something like "Your Mommy kills animals". Not necessarily a respectable practice for any activist group.
It's not necessarily their cause I get angry over, it's their tactics. I am against limiting the use of animals in medical testing, completely against their use in cosmetics/beauty products, and I am very against primates being owned as pets. Ever. But I can talk about these issues like an adult, not like a organization that throws temper tantrums every time they are found out to be incorrect.
To balance out your PETA experience, here is a site article for you to browse...
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/article_detail.cfm?article=134 The rest of the site is filled with more information. I don't 100% advocate either this site or PETAs site, it's just that you should have the right to decide for yourself what you believe.
