Posted: Mar 05, 2010 3:11 pm
HughMcB wrote:tnjrp wrote:I don't know much about PETA personally but they've been accused of taking part in some "better dead than pet" campaigns, such as poisoning dogs at some American dog shows with antifreeze (you find precious little love for PETA on any of the US-based show dog folk forums or mailing lists...). Obviously I can't corroborate that but the very idea does make me a bit leery of them my must admit
Don't get me wrong, I fucking hat dog show people also, I watched a very good BBC doc on how all the purebred dogs a riddled with disease and genetic weaknesses (which I knew already) but it was that the dog breeders were perfectly ok with this as long as they looked the way they "should" i.e. humans had decided they should in some dog catalogue.
Here it is...
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/pedigree-dogs-exposed/
If that link doesn't here's a youtube one;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O0l0f50AAk&feature=fvw
Despite thinking that this is very very wrong, it doesn't change my opinion that PETA are a bunch of attention seeking knob jockeys.
So what is the point of your thread?
Are you trying to highlight that the mission statement of the organisation, i.e. Animal Liberation is bunk?
Or are you saying they are hypocrites?
Organisations are like people ... because there are run by imperfect beings. If you are going to 'debunk' an organisation than you may as well debunk them all.
Where do you stand on the ethical treatment of non-human animals?
What is your proposed solution for consciousness raising in regard to the treatment of non-human animals?
I'm just curious to hear some solutions.