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Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN
Bad reasons for eating vegan often lead to "cheating" and very non vegan behavior. My vegan behavior is very staunch. I eat vegan. Period. An organization such as PETA is known for their love of animals...but where do they stop? We all have heard the yelling masses parading naked with fliers telling everyone why they should be kinder to non-humans. Usually for vegans this is a good thing, I mean sexy naked people agreeing with us -- how is this bad? Well, PETA can be very bad, and through the years have proved just how decidedly NOT VEGAN they are. PETA is a great organization with its heart in the right place, but they are NOT vegan friendly. Vegetarian is as far as they go.
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New Welfarists
Most Animal Rights supporters believe in Abolishing the use of animals for human gain. PETA many times have supported this is and have stated what they are after. However As the above list has already demonstrated PETA compromises this goal and are essentially welfarists (those who believe that animal servitude is acceptable as long as they are murdered/used in a way that is ‘not so bad’). They claim that one has to make sacrifices in order to reach the goal. -
Exploitation
PETA is run like a company. They seek ads showcasing animals and the violence that is done to them. They engineer campaigns that are "sure wins" that do absolutely nothing for animals (like changing the name of a song or product) in order to garner more morale and establish more donations. They even turn profit from the DVDs that showcase the death of animals, which also is designed to bring more people to the animal rights tent. -
Happy Meat
One of the largest plagues among Animal Rights, is the idea of the so called Happy meat and animal byproducts. "Free Range" criteria tends to be very vague, allows for the same mistreatment as traditional factory farming. Cageless Hens essentially means stuffing as many hens as they would have battery cages into a pen, and debeaking them just the same. It means allowing dairy cows who are smashed into pens where they cannot move, to be given the ability to see the sunlight for a few hours a day. It is not the "Old McDonald’s farm" that the term Free range implies. So why is it that PETA cites happy Meat, as a viable alternative to Factory farming? The Real alternative should be vegan faux meats, if you need to have your meat. -
Sexism
you knew this was going to come up, I suppose. Mainly what we do by creating a "sex sells" attitude in animal rights is liken the commodity of the animals to that of the female form. Obviously there are parallels between the social order between the genders and how people think they are kings over beasts— but does promoting one sort of commodity for the other make it acceptable? Are there really any benefits, I mean aside from eye candy, for animal rights as a whole? -
Vegetarians
For all the few attempts to promote veganism PETA tends to focus on Vegetarianism. A vegetarian, still participates in the whole sell slaughter and harm to millions of animals every year. A dairy cow is slaughtered after 2-3 years of surface, every year 20% of them are culled. Eggs are produced by hens that are set in battery cages, and debeaked and deformed. In most factory farms, Hen barns are gassed, every year and new hens replace the ones that worked the previous year.
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Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 6/27/2010 11:54 AM
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 6/27/2010 12:11 AM
does the title say anything about veggies you f@#$%% idiots.....
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 6/26/2010 3:32 PM
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 3/05/2010 1:28 AM
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/17/2009 9:55 AM
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/09/2009 11:33 AM
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/11/2009 9:46 AM
NO COMPROMISE.
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/09/2009 12:52 PM
The animal rights movement would be much better if PETA either stopped doing the things on this list or just stopped existing.
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/05/2009 3:08 PM
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/09/2009 11:40 AM
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/11/2009 9:33 AM
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/04/2009 12:49 PM
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/09/2009 11:37 AM
Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/11/2009 9:49 AM
On a side note I've been a vegan for over fifteen years, and I was never a vegetarian.