[Aprill]

[StereoXGirl]

Yeah, this is beyond low.

Even when I was a vegetarian I still hated what Peta does/did. Seriously, they're not encouraging people to join their cause. They're pushing people away and making people despise them even more with their hatred and gross out tactics.

P.S. I haven't eaten red meat in over 5 years, but I'm not going to try to tell other people what they can or cannot eat. I respect that it's their decision to make.

[CellyCell]

Wow.

[AngelaGM]

PETA is a bit fanatical. Although they make a stand for innocent animals.

[reesesilverstar]

Well Peta should know that there are ppl who believe that they can communicate with plants and that plants have a wealth of emotions and personalities and do react to the environment more than we anticipated. I'm serious, there's plant psychology now.

SO MAYBE WE SHOULD ALL JUST STARVE. CUZ EVERYTHING HAS FEELINGS AND SCREAMS!

lol... that was just so ridiculous...

[AngelaGM]

LMAO@reesesilverstar! You are too funny and that is a great point!

[Dragonfly]

I do not agree with PETA using the young man's death as a means of forwarding it's cause.
However I believe that PETA has done their best to open the eyes of people who were not aware of the multitude of animal abuses occuring around the world.

[Darla_G]

But i do think PETA undermines its cause with such an ad. It automatically makes you think that they are over the top about everything and lack credibility. they have done a lot to bring out the brutal practices in slaughterhouses and in chicken factories, but the reality is a majority of people still like to eat these things.

[ticki]

funny thing about PETA. if their idea of humane is to mass kill, no wonder they hold human life in so little regard...

PETA's euthanization rate is a staggering 97%.

A prominent PETA report was released regarding their 2006 statistics, here is a run-down, probably the most concrete and concise one I found:

" a Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Online Animal Report, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) reported that in 2006, they took in 3,043 animals that were surrendered by their owners.

Of these 3,043 animals (1,960 cats, 1,030 dogs, 52 other companion animals, and 1 chicken), the organization reported that 2,981 animals were euthanized. The report filed by PETA shows that only 2 cats, 8 dogs, and 2 companion animals from the 3,043 animals were adopted out. This means 1,942 cats, 988 dogs, 50 other companion animals, and one chicken were euthanized which makes PETA’s euthanization rate 97%."

sources that list PETA's animal activities, including concrete figures of how many animals are actually euthanized, how many are kept or transported, how many released to the wild (from Virginia's own online animal reporting site, a GOVERNMENT site):

Index of /vdacs_ar/cgi-bin...

PETA administration talk on their own PETA forum about the fact that they mass-euthanize many animals and that they are in no way a no-kill shelter:
http://www.peta.org/forums/topic.asp?TOP...

* 5 months ago

Source(s):
http://www.itchmo.com/report-from-peta-s...
^ Source of quote

[nosepickle]

I don't think it's too far at ALL. If it will make one person go "Ew. They're right, animal cruelty is wrong and I'm going to stop eating meat/stop wearing fur etc... then it's all right by me.

[daer0n]

That was cheap.
I can understand their desperation to save animals, i love animals and i have respect for them as much as i should for a human being but they shouldnt have used that guy's story to make people get conscious about killing animals for no reason, they are running out of ideas i guess.

[StereoXGirl]

Originally Posted by nosepickle

I don't think it's too far at ALL. If it will make one person go "Ew. They're right, animal cruelty is wrong and I'm going to stop eating meat/stop wearing fur etc... then it's all right by me.

That's just the thing, though. This ad isn't going to make ANYONE say that. It's just going to make people think that PETA is absolutely INSANE and has absolutely no regard for human life. This ad will only serve to push people FARTHER away from PETA's cause and make them despise the idea of PETA and what they stand for even more.

Just checking, you do know what they're talking about, right? They're comparing the murder, decapitation, gutting, and cannibalism performed on a young man on a bus on his way home by a psycho to people killing animals for food (animals do it all the time in the wild).

If someone can't see that these two are nothing alike, they have serious problems that need to be addressed.

[AprilRayne]

That's exactly what I was going to say! I'm sure Tim's family doesn't appreciate him being compared to an animal. I love animals too, but we are the higher species. Sorry if that offends anyone, but that's just the way it is. I've thought about being a vegetarian myself, but as a Christian, I know that certain animals are okay for us to eat sparingly and that is in no way comparable to human murder.

Originally Posted by StereoXGirl

That's just the thing, though. This ad isn't going to make ANYONE say that. It's just going to make people think that PETA is absolutely INSANE and has absolutely no regard for human life. This ad will only serve to push people FARTHER away from PETA's cause and make them despise the idea of PETA and what they stand for even more.

Just checking, you do know what they're talking about, right? They're comparing the murder, decapitation, gutting, and cannibalism performed on a young man on a bus on his way home by a psycho to people killing animals for food (animals do it all the time in the wild).

If someone can't see that these two are nothing alike, they have serious problems that need to be addressed.

[WhitneyF]

I really respect that they try to look out for animals, but the way they go about it always turns me off. I don't believe in or follow them. They've just got this extremist mentality that scares me.