PETA and the whole Crazy veggie Debate!

[aliannurai]

I have just been on the Peta website looking at the forums and i myself being a veggie have to say that most of them are mental! Now i don't eat red meat because i don't like the taste of it. i also try not to buy products tested on animals because that IS wrong. However on these message broads they go on about not wearing leather and this does

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[singanathema]

My sister is a vegan and, as I understand it, is anti the whole breeding and use of animals for human purposes completely, ergo no wool, leather gelatin based products etc. She is also anti pets for it's another example of animals manipulated for human purposes. This is were you get into the differences between those who are animal right campaigners and animal activists. PETA do a lot of things that I would consider questionable so even though I (despite not being vegetarian) would consider myself someone who advocates animal rights I don't support PETA.

[matgb]

"i really want to get behind PETA"

No. No no no no no. PeTA are a bunch of extremist lunatics who make sane vegetarians and animal welfare campaigners look bad by association.

In the US, they've given funds to direct action groups that carry out terrorist-style attacks, they want to stop all animal usage and want to reduce the worlds human population down to "sustainable" levels, some of the leadership have advocated compulsory sterilisation.

Good PR is a front for insane ideas. PeTA aren't worth supporting in any way and should be sidelined from any serious discussion.

(veggie for 16 years now)

[matgb]

Um, sorry, that was a bit ranty.

[aliannurai]

don't worry about the rant but i really do want to do something for animal rights however they all just seem stupid the PeTA people well maybe not stupid but a bit extream. whilst i was on their message boards looking at animal friendly makeup i just though would i accutally be able to say i eat chicken to them or would i end up with hate mail. it seems to me that something that has been set up for the rights of animals has gone so badly wrong.
and no not too ranty matt i am looking for rants.
Sister Jo?

[singanathema]

I have two half sisters. One lives in Seattle and the other is the vegan who rather oddly works on the computer programming for fighter jets etc. I don't know how she makes those two contradictory things go together.