Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN Anything

Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN

phact0rri phact0rri 10,610 views 10 items
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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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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?
  5. 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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  1. jen
    Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 6/27/2010 11:54 AM
    I'm a vegetarian that is an advocate for the work done by Temple Grandin, i think what she did was a win-win for beef companies and animal rights activists because it didn't just make cattle farming more ethical but it also made it more efficient (less cattle die before slaughter). I understand that most people can't make the step to becoming a vegetarian and so does PETA so we promote any steps to make it as painless as possible. I may not promote everything being done by PETA (i.e. the kids comic books) (And no offense) but those provocative ads are supposed to be that way to gain attention or else it would be the equivalent of an American-made car commercial: dull and repetitive.
  2. veggiietails
    Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 6/27/2010 12:11 AM
    thats why its called "people for the ethical treatment of animals""



    does the title say anything about veggies you f@#$%% idiots.....
  3. tenchi
    Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 6/26/2010 3:32 PM
    dude i dont like peta but your list is a bit nit picky.
  4. IHateEverything
    Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 3/05/2010 1:28 AM
    I will eat meat, but I would rather my cows be happy and healthy before they are turned into food. We have sharp teeth for a reason and denying that is not the way for us to solve the problem of animal cruelty.
  5. Louise
    Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/17/2009 9:55 AM
    But they are also doing a small difference, i would rather be a vegetarian and do something. Not eating meat and doing absolutely nothing!
  6. blakmira
    Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/09/2009 11:33 AM
    Yes, animal lovers, let's tear off our own legs and join in with the animal abuse industries and HATE ON PETA! Because it's trendy -- because we believe the anti-PETA propaganda of petakillsanimals, who is the front for the very organizations animal lovers fight against. This list is pathetic and I give it a FAIL.
    1. phact0rri
      Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/11/2009 9:46 AM
      You might want to check out some actually helpful organizations to donate to, like Win Animal Rights, Uncaged, In Defense of Animals, etc. But Grassroots campaigning does the most positive work. Its easy to just throw your money to the first pretty face you see. it takes another to demonstrate, volunteer, and do positive work for yourself.

      NO COMPROMISE.
    1. mm
      Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/09/2009 12:52 PM
      Everything in this list is true. And while I don't think it's wise to link up with the front group that is CCF (Center for Consumer Freedom), the hypocritical and self-defeating things that PETA does needs to be called out.

      The animal rights movement would be much better if PETA either stopped doing the things on this list or just stopped existing.
  7. phact0rri
    Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/05/2009 3:08 PM
    There are vegans who support PETA, and PETA does reach out programs to wrangle vegans to donate to them. This list is essentially, to give a heads up to vegans who support PETA.
    1. blakmira
      Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/09/2009 11:40 AM
      Gee, phactorri, you could have fooled me. Just a heads-up to vegans? Looks like a heads up to discredit one of the few animal rights groups who are true abolitionists with your nod to petakillsanimals. FAIL
      1. phact0rri
        Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/11/2009 9:33 AM
        Peta are not abolitionists. They are a welfare group. Abolitionists do not believe in compromising their stance. Animals are not property PERIOD. Animals should have all the things in life they deserve. giving them a soft pillow, to lay their decapitated head on is not abolition. And I find it hard to believe its even welfare.

  8. Greg
    Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/04/2009 12:49 PM
    Does PETA claim to support totally vegan habits? I was always under the impression it was more vegetarian-oriented
    1. blakmira
      Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/09/2009 11:37 AM
      Of course they'd prefer everyone were vegan but realistically, you become a vegetarian first, so that's what their focus is on -- to help you make the transition.
      1. phact0rri
        Top 10 Reasons PETA is NOT VEGAN at 12/11/2009 9:49 AM
        People become vegan because that is their individual goal, not because they go vegetarian first. Vegetarianism is not a gate way lifestyle choice. They think that baby steps of transitioning from vegetarian to vegan is easier. But what a vegan is and that its a viable and easy thing should be mentioned and advertised. By saying go vegetarian your not boycotting the meat and dairy industry, you are just fooling the people into thinking, being a vegetarian is the kind thing to do, and if you are a vegan you should know full well its not.

        On a side note I've been a vegan for over fifteen years, and I was never a vegetarian.

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