PETA: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

"Not only have they benefited helpful conservational and environmental issues (depending on your viewpoint), but they also have made possibly one of the biggest positive impacts on animal welfare." They have done nothing for the environment, but harm it. What you don't understand is that they do not care about the welfare of species of animals or the over all health, they only care about a small amount of animals that were treated inhumanly. Acts that were ILLEGAL and acts that happened for a SHORT period of time and acts that do NOT happen again. They tell you all about the 50 chickens at KFC that some horrible (and I mean it, I have 2 show chickens that I love at my farm, and 5 laying hens. The way they treated them was NOT tolerated by me or any of my other fellow agriculturalists) farmers tortured, but they neglect to tell you have the 15'000'000 other ones that lived happy healthy lives. They show videos of HORRIBLE farmers hurting animals, people I disown and refuse to call farmers, and tell you we are ALL like this. BUT we aren't and it is prejudicial to judge us this way. We treat our animals as humanely as possible. "PETA first uncovered the abuse of animals in experiments in 1981 and launched the precedent-setting "Silver Spring monkeys" case. This resulted in the first arrest and criminal conviction of an animal experimenter in the United States on charges of cruelty to animals, the first confiscation of abused laboratory animals, and the first U.S. Supreme Court victory for animals in laboratories." And then they moved on to the extreme, saying we should not use animals for testing at all. But, we should. Animals are treated well in these conditions. if they aren't it IS ILLEGAL. PETA and other, much better organizations (such as the ASPCA), have already made it illegal. But they continue to gregariously say all labs treat animals badly, so we should not allow them to exist anymore. So they take videos of the few cases of already illegal abuse, and then show those videos to you (not showing you all the other laboratories that treat animals with respect) and then tell you that all animals are treated that way, when simply it isn't so. And you are buying into a pack of lies. •PETA released 70 hours of graphic video footage that documented the appalling treatment of primates at the University of Pennsylvania head-injury laboratory, resulting in government fines and the loss of funding for the cruel study. And they didn't realease the other 1'000'000'000'000 hours of video that they have taken, where the animals were well taken care of in these situations. As you can see they ALREADY made it illegal. And because PETA doesn't want to run out of things to do, so they can continue to run as an organization, they try to make it seem much worse then it really is. So they continue to make money and continue to be an organization that doesn't need to be there anymore. This response, is basically the response to the rest of your arguments. PETA made it illegal, or filmed something already illegal. Told you that people were still openly practicing it and that everyone in the field does it. And then told you that unless if we stop all of the operations it will continue to happen, even though it has already been stopped. Comments Section Response: "Think of the poor little moo cows. Stop caring about humans. If it weren't for humans, cows would be roaming around the country unfettered by human desires. Free the moo cows! We should all vacate our houses and lend them to the moo cows." Cows do not want to live in houses. They hate inclosed spaces, and are much hapeir roaming along the big open space they got on a farm, with plenty of fresh food, water, and no predators to worry about. Unlike in the wild, they do not suffer from certain disease and live much longer, helathier lives. Even ones that go to slaughter are treated much better then they would have been in the wild. I would much rather be a domesticated animal, one that likes the compainionship of humans, then a wild one! Who doesn't like health, food, water, and freedom from predators? Even when cows were allowed to roam around back along time ago; they didn't run away. Because they LIKE being domesticated animals. This morning my cow, Jessie, had two twin bull calfs, Pete and Repete. They are the cutest little things. But in the wild they both would have died. First off, it is winter time. They would have frozen, covered in all of the 'gunk' from giving birth, they wouldn't of stood a chance. Second off, one of the twins had a minor problem standing, because of the way his legs had been in the womb. It was like he had been sleeping 'funny' on them for nine months, and they were just sore and weak. So we wrapped them so he could get to his moms colostrum. You see, for the first 6 to 8 hours after birth a mother makes colostrum instead of milk. It is filled with antibodies and fat, very much needed for the survival of the calf. Every hour they go without it is like a 10 to 15 % decrease in the survival of the animal. In the wild if they hadn't frozen the second calf surely would of died from illness from not receiving the colostrum in time. Farm life is just much nicer then wild life. In the wild they are riddled with disease and eaten alive by predators. Constantly their babies are killed. And there is no way a cow would want to live in my house. They are much happier in the hay in the warm barn at night, then they are in a bed in your house! Plus, the grain they are fed tastes good to them. It has exactly what they need. They would get sick if we fed them pizza or peanut butter sandwiches! Actually, they love that they get their food handed to them. Without us giving them food they would have to scavenge for many hours more then they have too. I never said PETA harms the welfare of animals, I said they harm conservational and environmental pursuits. I would also like to bring out the pictures and films I am sure you have seen of so called 'farms' that keep animals in tiny boxes, that they can't even turn around in. These are an illusion. There are regulated size pens animals HAVE to be kept in. A pig needs something like a 4 X 4 square foot pen, roughly the size of an average bedroom. Cows need a certain amount of acreage, each, as well. They need food, wanter, and shelter. As well as entertainment. If we don't give it to them then they die or suffer, and a suffered animal is a stressed one, and a stressed carcass is worth much less then a happy one. Why would we want to kill are animals? Why would we want to stress them out to reduce the amount they are worth? because we don't. And the only ones that do are twisted fools that end up in jail. Most of the pictures you see are at slaughter houses, where the animal may live at for under 20 minutes, up to a week, depending on how much they weigh. Their death comes quickly and much more mercifully then in the wild (where they would have either starved to death, been eaten alive, or died slowly of a painful disease) I would take a quick cut to the throat, over the sharp claws of a cheetah ripping at my belly any day. What I really want to express to you is: 1) Animals like the way they live on farms that follow the law, over then how they would have lived in the wild. 2) We have no reason to break the laws set out for us to fill 3) It is wrong to group us all up for the small amount of wrong doing of others, or people in the past 4) PETA dwells on non-existent problems, simply so they can keep going as an organization 5) What you believe is immoral is not something we all believe is immoral. And PETA should not force it's beliefs on others