PETA has always felt like a corporate strategy in the same vein as the oil companies infiltrating green movements and steering them away from nuclear back in the 70’s and 80’s. Like PETA exists to make Vegans and Vegetarians look bad, imo.
Yup.
Just had a random thought… twitch.tv is owned by Jeff Bezos. Hasan Piker is on the front page of that site any time he turns on his webcam. That’s kinda weird isn’t it?
Don’t know why I just thought of that.
Hasan is a big streamer
Big streamers make twitch money
Bezos loves money
Not so weird
there are so many better vegan orgs than peta. peta is just clickbait for twitter.
Why does vegan need an organization?
…To accomplish goals?
ALF was pretty cool but the government didn’t really like them too much.
All Vegans, animal lovers, anyone with empathy hates PETA. Fuck PETA.
Looks like shit
You don’t like her manly shoulders!?
What?
Oh, just that it is like a woman’s head on a man’s body.
Maybe you’re too young to remember women wearing shoulder pads but that shit is way out of fashion and this ad is garbage.
Yeah, when women wore shoulder pads it was obvious and for looks. This is just a women’s head juxtaposed on a male in a suit.
PETA is the AIPAC of people who want to eat less or no meat.
lol. they’re also using the aesthetic of a mormon wife to sell their message. that lady buys 20 pounds of beef a week.
trust me, i used to live in salt lake city.
I’m not sure what PETA was thinking here… I’d reckon that it would be unlikely for people who respond to the proto-fascist propaganda style to consider going vegan.
Kinda tracks with their history. PETA kills animals that they take in at a much higher rate than any other animal shelter. But yeah, keep generating click bait headlines to advance your cause.
People Eating Tasty Animals remains the one true PETA.
Omg. If we gonna start a fight about everything we might as well live in the forest
Surprising that anti-Peta sentiment is so prevalent here on Lemmy, kind of thought that would be left behind at Reddit. Aside from their deliberately abrasive marketing and the misinformation about them kidnapping people’s pets to euthanize them, what did they do?
While animal activism is a good thing, PETA has a unique “the ends justify the means approach” that gives other activists a bad name. Historically they were famous for extreme publicity stunts to raise awareness for animals who can’t advocate for themselves, but in recent years function more as a lobbyists interweaving animal protectionism with various unrelated issues. These lobbying efforts are contributing to the erosion and brain drain of American academic science among other important issues.
Full disclosure, I’m biased and affiliated with a non-profit trying to save academic research in Oregon. PETA has been the largest source of misinformation, using a huge amount of money to establish billboard campaigns, targeted ads, and misleading polls to paint the research center as villainous. Everyone wants to protect animals but the nuance of protecting life saving research dependant on animal models is a much harder position to argue than “save the animals”.
Research is slowly drifting away from animal testing, but today many scientific breakthroughs (some concrete examples currently under threat include a cure for HIV, GLP1S, Non-hormonal birth control) rely on animals and non-animal alternatives haven’t yet caught up in capability.
If your interested in learning more, Save Science Oregon is a website we’ve built to battle some of this information.
PETA would be more respected if they weren’t so batshit crazy. Their is literally no line that they wouldn’t cross just for free publicity. They are just as bad as religion when it comes to rampant proselytizing.
“They kill animals!”
That’s overwhelmingly the critique people have of PETA. They humanely euthanize instead of just letting animals starve on the streets. Not one viable alternative has been proposed here beyond “let other shelters try to adopt them” like there are shelters turning animals away for the sake of turning them away and not because they literally don’t have the capacity to do anything.
That’s why the overwhelming majority of these complaints are just vague innuendo about PETA doing “cruelty,” whatever that means exactly.
There was an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! all about PETA. Gives a good overview of what they’re really all about.
Yeah they were killing more dogs and cats then kill shelters. Because fucking sociopaths. They don’t even believe in pets.
They run no rejection animal shelters. Since people in general buy too many pups from breeders other animal shelters have to reject many animals that people neglect and try to get rid of. PETA does not reject any of those that get rejected by other shelters. This means they have a huge overflow of animals that people bring there. Sadly that means euthanizing ones that they do not have the money to support. If you are pro-pets and do not fund PETA to support all the neglected pets it feels a bit hypocritical to criticize them for euthanizing when the problem is that there is too many neglected pets.
Sadly that means euthanizing ones that they do not have the money to support.
Ah, yes. The only ethical euthanasia are the ones we conduct!
If you are pro-pets, don’t buy “designer” puppies. Get your animals from a shelter, or from rescues.
I absolutely adore betta fish, but I sure as hell won’t buy one. I don’t want to support keeping fish in tiny cups.
Frankly, what we need is legislation that forces pet stores to ensure that any animal kept with an intent to sell mush be housed and displayed in an appropriate enclosure for it to survive its entire natural life. That way the animals don’t suffer if they aren’t sold, and people get a good idea of what an actual appropriate setup looks like for that animal. I see too many nightmares on Craigslist and Facebook where people are keeping a 5ft corn snake in a 10 gallon enclosure because that’s what the baby corn snake was in at the pet store.
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An organisation so bad that everyone involved in that crew had no qualms calling them bullshit
All the animal protection laws in the US can be traced back to peta lobbing. Bet P&T were sponsored by KFC or other animal meat industry.
Show your moral superiority to PETA by going vegan and not making slop.
The other layer here is gibberish. “L’H YBQRH DIM”?
I don’t know how they do it ( https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font ).
VEGANS are cool PETA is lame… PETA is a CIA cutout
They are a psy-op to make the public hate vegans.
This is consistent with their general scumminess.
