Reiku said:
I'm going to deny that PETA has had success in alleviating animal suffering:
For every cow, chicken, or pig they save, there's a hundred omnivorous humans they've tortured with their continuous attacks on our beleifs and our way of life.
Exageration does little to convince -- but it does lead to chuckles.
Peta has clearly had many successes at helping animals. I will discuss some in the future, but if you can`t wait then please go to
PETA yourself to see.
You can try to belittle the harm that this does, but the psychological damage inflicted by such hotile bigotry is immense. PETA is trying to wipe my kind from the face of the earth, that they prefer means more subtle and indirect than a execution camps is small consolation.
Funny!
We are not trying to "wipe your kind from the face of the earth," -- just your eating habits and view of animal usage. You are still permitted to exist as a human -- which is the "kind" of animal you are.
Do you know how it feels, to know that there is a powerful group of people who are opposed to your very existance?
lol. Oh man! I just can`t stop. I am laughing so hard that I feel like I am watching an episode of The Family Guy.
Anyways...to use your verbage...
Do you know how it feels to know that there is a powerful group of people who are opposed to you not being a target for digestion, exploitation, and testing?
Jews most certainly do in the category of the latter two. There is a disportortionate number of Jews in the Animal Liberation movement compared to other ethnic/religio groups. Perhaps their history as a group targeted for exploitaton causes many of them to empathise and join the movement. Yes, they know how it feels and have been raised on stories of how it feels.
That they will turn your children against you,...
Then you haven`t been very convincing in teaching your values to your children.
...pass laws against your way of life,...
Hey, that`s democracy. Gotta love it.
...pressure and attack those who support you?
Never good to reinvent the wheel. Use what history has shown us to be successful with. Perhaps those targeted shouldn`t cave so easily to continue encouraging future tactics that they give the message as being effective. Why don`t they be martyres and go down for what they believe in? Perhaps they don`t really believe in it -- they just believe in the profit of it up until the heat in the kitchen causes a little uncomfortableness.
And even worse, knowing that that the majority of people--even if they don't agree with that group--don't see anything wrong with what the group is doing?
Because an inner voice in the majority of the people may be telling then that the group is right. Either that, or they are blind to the agitation for change or apathy has a hold on them. We benefit from all that.
It's like anti-semitism, or the more recent push against homosexuals--and it is completely disgusting to me.
Not at all. The AR movement is one which is seeking to win rights for animals -- extending those rights that do not impose upon integrity of body. The Jews' bodies definitely had their integrity violated.
PETA has almost 1 million people as members. I am sure there are many homosexuals amongst their members. I don`t think they feel PETA is putting forth anything like something that is denying rights to them -- except in convincing the public to give up meat or to legislate slowly and surely against the corporations that proffit from blood.