PETA are ethical

P.E.T.A support A.L.F as I've said. The ALF (Animal Liberation Front) are a group of people that set out to firebomb and destroy laboratories that take part in animal testing. Such actions endanger the lives of scientists, nearby locals and millions of people that could be saved by the medical products created by such testing. I would also like to point out that most animal testing is towards medicinal products, not cosmetic. Whilst cosmetic testing takes place, it is not the ONLY use.. These people are not ethical. if you support such actions, you are not ethical. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. Allow me to explain why I feel the way I feel. P.E.T.A ran a campaign called 'Holocaust On A Plate.' I mentioned this in my opening statement but I'd like to go into detail here. This campaign included showing images of death camps next to animals. I will grant you that animal abuse is bad but I draw the line at comparing the way we treat animals on livestock farms to places such as Auschwitz. That is disrespectful to every person who died in those camps, every one who lost people to those camps and every survivor. These people were put through torture, forced to endure pain beyond comparison and deal with psychological effects which would destroy the sanest man and you want to compare that to pigs and cows? That's not ethical. It's disrespectful towards humanity and I believe makes light of one of the, if not the darkest moments in human history. Using torture and genocide as marketing is unethical, plain and simple. Also I will grant you that seeing animals killed for food is not a pretty sight but that's an aesthetic point, not a moral one. P.E.T.A also would outlaw pets and guide dogs for the blind. Isn't that ethical? Taking away services for disabled people because it's wrong for animals to be kept as working pets. No, Outlawing services for the disabled is unethical. Now then, Rodney Coronado. An arsonist is described by Ingrid Newkirk (the leader of P.E.T.A) as a 'fine young man'. If you can be a fine young man and an arsonist, what does it take to be a monster? Proof I hear you cry? P.E.T.A's tax records from July 1995 (when such actions took place) clearly show a payment of $45,200 to the Rodney Coronado Support Committee and a further $25,000 to Ray Cornonado (Rodney's dad). P.E.T.A - supporting arsonists for the animals. I would also like to add a quote from Brian Levon (A scholar at the Center For The Study Of Hate and Extremeism) "When you use violence and property destruction as a way to achieve reforms, well that's called terrorism." At the end of the day, using violence, threats and harassment to achieve reforms is unethical. It's is morally wrong in the views of the law and the minds of sensible people. Comparing the killing of cows and pigs to the genocide of Jews during WW2 is unethical and disrespectful to human kind. Denying people the basic right to medicines that could save their lives is unethical but hey, if you're terminally ill and can't be cured because P.E.T.A banned medical research on animals, well I suppose you'll be happy right? Ban research on animals and you lose bio medical science and development. Oh and one more thing. P.E.T.A's tax records also show a cost of $9,370 on a walk in freezer. Why? To safely store the corpses of the animals they euthanize until they can be buried. In fact they killed 1325 out of the 2103 animals they took in during 2002. These people are far from ethical.