There was an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! all about PETA. Gives a good overview of what they're really all about.
Yeah that show was full of "libertarian" bullshit. But nowadays Penn has gone vegan and abandoned "libertarianism". People can grow up.
An organisation so bad that everyone involved in that crew had no qualms calling them bullshit
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.
Show your moral superiority to PETA by going vegan and not making slop.
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.
Peta is also alright with mass culling animals 🤣
All Vegans, animal lovers, anyone with empathy hates PETA. Fuck PETA.
I don't know much about them but I know them because of this stupid poster:
Lol, that is just hilariously bad.
PETA should be charged for shearing like that.
there are so many better vegan orgs than peta. peta is just clickbait for twitter.
Surprising that anti-Peta sentiment is so prevalent here on Lemmy, kind of thought that would be left behind at Reddit. Aside from their deliberately abrasive marketing and the misinformation about them kidnapping people's pets to euthanize them, what did they do?
While animal activism is a good thing, PETA has a unique "the ends justify the means approach" that gives other activists a bad name. Historically they were famous for extreme publicity stunts to raise awareness for animals who can't advocate for themselves, but in recent years function more as a lobbyists interweaving animal protectionism with various unrelated issues. These lobbying efforts are contributing to the erosion and brain drain of American academic science among other important issues.
Full disclosure, I'm biased and affiliated with a non-profit trying to save academic research in Oregon. PETA has been the largest source of misinformation, using a huge amount of money to establish billboard campaigns, targeted ads, and misleading polls to paint the research center as villainous. Everyone wants to protect animals but the nuance of protecting life saving research dependant on animal models is a much harder position to argue than "save the animals".
Research is slowly drifting away from animal testing, but today many scientific breakthroughs (some concrete examples currently under threat include a cure for HIV, GLP1S, Non-hormonal birth control) rely on animals and non-animal alternatives haven't yet caught up in capability.
If your interested in learning more, Save Science Oregon is a website we've built to battle some of this information.
They pointed out that smug carnist bros are actually terrible people. They will never be forgiven in these sorts of spaces.
PETA would be more respected if they weren't so batshit crazy. Their is literally no line that they wouldn't cross just for free publicity. They are just as bad as religion when it comes to rampant proselytizing.
"They kill animals!"
That's overwhelmingly the critique people have of PETA. They humanely euthanize instead of just letting animals starve on the streets. Not one viable alternative has been proposed here beyond "let other shelters try to adopt them" like there are shelters turning animals away for the sake of turning them away and not because they literally don't have the capacity to do anything.
That's why the overwhelming majority of these complaints are just vague innuendo about PETA doing "cruelty," whatever that means exactly.
I'm going to start eating meat again, just out of spite (I'm not actually).
Peta sucks anyway
PETA sucks but surely this has gotta be a false flag
How do you know this was A.I generated? Legitimate question. PETA is the worst.
stylistically: AI art has only a few categories it seems to do.
It always goes for this particular blend between photo realistic and westernised anime proportions and then finish that off in whatever style it's told to do. Which is either again realism or cartoony shading or whatever blend it comes up with.
It also doesn't express itself through composition or shape. It goes for (ironically) anatomical correctness in as far that it knows that.
There is a yellow tint to it (probably a artifact from AI images being trained on alot of images)
a.k.a. "the piss filter".
LMAOOO
Corpse munchers are the worst
Real flag has an equal three white stripes in upper half, three in the lower.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=us+flag+wiki&iar=images
This is "make flag wallpaper in a portrait shape for the background".
PETA is the AIPAC of people who want to eat less or no meat.
This is easily the most mcmurican thread I have seen on Lemmy, might as well be on twitter.
Nah that's okay, I'm gonna keep eating meat from our trusted local eco and free roam farms.
Peak lib. You gonna support relocating palestinians to new humane homes too?
lol, what does eating local, humanely produced meat have to do with Palestinians?
I am against the genocide of Palestine, which is happening. What the hell is that question, dude?
Vegans shouldn't let themselves be associated with the terrorists of PETA.
Got it! Becoming an animal tomorrow!
Watch out, PETA will try to euthanize you
Good
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.
Who is the MAGA face on the poster? Or is she just an idoru?
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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