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Today, my media group and I finished a majority of the editing for our rant project. Our target of choice was PETA, whom I'm sure all of you are familiar with. Throughout the course of the rant, we ripped on the hypocracy in the upper levels, the utter lack of logic in their arguments and statements, and their immoral and often outright dispicable advertising tactics. And then our ranter voraciously ate a hotdog, which has to be 10 dead animals right there. xD

So, just out of curiosity, I'd like to hear your opinions on PETA. 3nodding

I believe animals should be treated ethically, inasmuch as they are living creatures.

I do not believe, however, that they are more important than humans. I believe that we are meat eating, leather and fur wearing, pet loving, zoo visiting, safari going people.

I personally own a rabbit coat, a mink stole and a fox fur collar. I wear leather shoes, eat steak and chicken, love my dog, and take my kids to the zoo and the aquarium. And know what? I don't feel the least bit guilty.

If PETA thinks that their militaristic, terrorist-based actions are going to get me to change the way I live, they are dead wrong...just like the Islamic extremests are not going to get me to change the way I live.

While I appreciate you voicing your opinion, this isn't what I'm looking for.

I'm not asking for your opinion on the treatment of animals; I'm asking what you think of this specific organization. 3nodding

peta is a very bad thing.... i mean they have a point but they r wayyyyyyyyyyyy overdoing it... besides animals are here for our uses... ppls lives rnt worth a seagull or whatever

Meh. PETA is so overdone and overrated. Really they're like that anoying piece of a corn kernel you just can't seem to get from between your teeth.

I'm all for letting animals have rights and everything like that, but I do have to draw a line somewhere. Yes dogs and cats are murdered for food and the like in countries such as China and Korea. But guess what; get the hell over it! It's been that way for centuries, and if you think about those cats are going to be saved a lot of pain and the like from living with no food or love. I myself am an avid cat lover, and I can see the logic in tradition over in those countries.

As in such, I respect how they've been, and I respect that they use the cats for something good. For food! I understand that it's considered inhumane to do that to a cat. But that's only because you're from America. PETA basis a lot of their views on American ideals. Have they ever stopped to consider that some of the foods they eat might be considered an inhumane act to someone else in another country? My thinking leads me to say no.

I dare you to go to some parts of India with a pound of ground beef in your hand and preach about the taste of a nice meaty burger. I bet your life wouldn't last thirty seconds.

You would club a baby seal?! How could you?!

ninja *Stashes away my seal slippers* ninja

Please be warned. 99% of sane users who view the following will think I'm a nut. They're probably right.

In my eyes, PETA isn't doing enough. Neither is Greenpeace. Both groups are all talk, and get nothing done. I would rally behind a more militaristic, efficient version of PETA. Yes, I eat animals, but only because God put them there for that purpose. He did not put them there for us to test on and torture. Most of this research isn't even necessary. How does the R&D section of March of Dimes justify sewing the eyes of puppies shut? Honestly. Nature needs to take the world back. Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami. . . not enough. THERE ARE OVER SIX BILLION FRIGGIN PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. We don't need all of them. I'm ashamed to be human.