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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 98 points 2 months ago

PETA is okay with animal cruelty so long as they're the ones doing the cruelty.

[-] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 13 points 2 months ago

PETA is the dog that caught the car. It has no clue what to do now, and it continually hurts itself in its confusion.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 83 points 2 months ago

There was an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! all about PETA. Gives a good overview of what they're really all about.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

Yeah they were killing more dogs and cats then kill shelters. Because fucking sociopaths. They don't even believe in pets.

[-] lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] young_broccoli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago

"They like to bite off more than they can chew so of course they have to spit it all over the table"

I understand, and agree, that the root of the problem is the amount of abandoned animals but I still think that what peta does is wrong. By accepting more animals than they can care for they are robbing those animals the chance to find a shelter that can actually take them in, or someone willing to adopt them, or a temporary foster home, even a life as a stray could be better than death IMO. Euthanasia should only be used as a last resort, I dont think peta is doing enough to exhaust their options and, I reiterate, they are not allowing others to try by pretending to shelter those animals. A no rejection shelter that kills the animals they cant care for is just a regular shelter with extra (and careless) steps.

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

I can barely fund myself

[-] lookingforanALFpolycule@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

I think PETA euthanizing the animals is better than pet owners creative ways to kill their pets because shelters won’t take them.

[-] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

The other shelters are already full, that's why they take in so many animals. They are the last stop.

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[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah that show was full of "libertarian" bullshit. But nowadays Penn has gone vegan and abandoned "libertarianism". People can grow up.

https://www.livekindly.com/penn-jillette-vegan-for-animals/

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[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 2 months ago

Show your moral superiority to PETA by going vegan and not making slop.

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[-] mynameisbob@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

VEGANS are cool PETA is lame.... PETA is a CIA cutout

[-] buran@lemmy.today 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They are a psy-op to make the public hate vegans.

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 36 points 2 months ago

This is consistent with their general scumminess.

[-] ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] M137@lemmy.today 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

All Vegans, animal lovers, anyone with empathy hates PETA. Fuck PETA.

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[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago

there are so many better vegan orgs than peta. peta is just clickbait for twitter.

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[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Help the animals by boiling the oceans

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 14 points 2 months ago

I don't know much about them but I know them because of this stupid poster:

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 months ago

I think PeTA is a psyop to make us hate activists

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[-] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

Lol, that is just hilariously bad.

[-] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

PETA should be charged for shearing like that.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

But... this is not how this works

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 13 points 2 months ago
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[-] vrek@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago

I want YOU to shut the fuck up Peta!

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 10 points 2 months ago

Peta sucks anyway

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 9 points 2 months ago

Got it! Becoming an animal tomorrow!

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

nothing changes

You're an animal already. Humans are animals.

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[-] daggermoon@piefed.world 9 points 2 months ago

I'm going to start eating meat again, just out of spite (I'm not actually).

[-] Mister_Hangman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

PETA is the AIPAC of people who want to eat less or no meat.

[-] OscarRobin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

PETA sucks but surely this has gotta be a false flag

[-] whereitsat@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Who is the MAGA face on the poster? Or is she just an idoru?

[-] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

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