• ViceroTempus@lemmy.world
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    2 days 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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      Yup.

      Just had a random thought… twitch.tv is owned by Jeff Bezos. Hasan Piker is on the front page of that site any time he turns on his webcam. That’s kinda weird isn’t it?

      Don’t know why I just thought of that.

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        Hasan is a big streamer

        Big streamers make twitch money

        Bezos loves money

        Not so weird

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

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    Kinda tracks with their history. PETA kills animals that they take in at a much higher rate than any other animal shelter. But yeah, keep generating click bait headlines to advance your cause.

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

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    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.

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

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

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        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.

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          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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          “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

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

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                Spending more resources on better facilities for the animals and less (preferably none) on AI slop ad campaigns and publicity stunts would be a good start.

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            Euthanasia should only be used as a last resort

            That is… that is what it is now, basically? People in animal shelters generally don’t want to kill the animals, but what are they going to do, if they have places for fifty, and five hundred in need? They are killing them, because it is the last resort. There just are not enough resources for all the dogs - or other animals - needing help.

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          Sadly that means euthanizing ones that they do not have the money to support.

          Ah, yes. The only ethical euthanasia are the ones we conduct!

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      An organisation so bad that everyone involved in that crew had no qualms calling them bullshit

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      All the animal protection laws in the US can be traced back to peta lobbing. Bet P&T were sponsored by KFC or other animal meat industry.

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    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.