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Message #174628 posted by bum (Info) May 03, 2008 03:01:23 ET
In Reply to: Re: PETA-- $1 million reward for in vitro meat posted by peace frog (Info) May 02, 2008 23:38:04 ET
where did you learn that PETA wants animals to have all the rights that
humans do? and what
does that even mean?!
"Animals should have the right to equal consideration of their interests. For
instance, a dog most
certainly has an interest in not having pain inflicted on him or her
unnecessarily. We are,
therefore, obliged to take that interest into consideration and to respect the
dog’s right not to
have pain unnecessarily inflicted upon him or her."
^^ from their website.
"i am all for animals being treated better before they hit my plate, but peta's a
bunch of nuts who's methods are ineffective. there's room on this planet for
all
of God's creatures, right next to the mashed potatos. "
i think you're talking out of your ass peace frog. i don't mean to be rude, but
you don't seem to be
critically thinking about PETA. your generalisation speaks for itself. i would
argue that PETA is
mostly composed of compassionate, thoughtful people. it's hard to give up
meat unless you feel
strong enough about it and even then it is difficult. i have tremendous
respect for these people.
anybody who will change something so fundamental and habitual in their
lives because of their
compassion is an amasing person.
with regard to your claims of ineffectuality, PETA has been incredible in
raising awareness of these
issues and more importantly CHANGING things. i can't quantify the scope of
PETAs efforts but i
assure you they have been wide and far-reaching.
i do know, for example, many of their campaigns and undercover work has
changed many
business practices. here are many, many examples:
In 1981, PETA uncovered the abuse of animals at the Institute for Behavioral
Research in Silver
Spring, Md., launching the historic Silver Spring monkeys’ case. PETA’s
findings led to the first
arrest and conviction of an animal experimenter in the U.S. on charges of
cruelty to animals, the
first confiscation for animal abuse in laboratories, and the first U.S. Supreme
Court victory for
animals in laboratories.
PETA has:
-successfully campaigned to end General Motors’ crash tests on animals
-prompted the first anti-cruelty law in Taiwan
-stopped the construction of a cruel dolphin tank in Virginia
-secured the release of several polar bears who had been suffering in a
tropical circus
-closed down a Texas slaughterhouse operation where 30,000 horses were
trucked in annually
from all over the United States and left to starve in frozen fields without
shelter
-convinced Mobil, Texaco, Pennzoil, Shell, and other oil companies to cover
their exhaust stacks
to save millions of birds and bats.
A PETA investigation led Benetton to ban animal testing—a first for a major
cosmetics retailer.
Today, hundreds of companies have signed PETA’s statement of assurance
not to test their
products on animals. As a result of PETA’s campaign to push PETCO to take
more responsibility
for the animals in its care, the company agreed to stop selling large birds and
to make provisions
for the millions of rats and mice it sells.
California became the first state to file criminal charges against a furrier after
PETA investigators
filmed the furrier electrocuting chinchillas by attaching wires to the animals’
genitals. Because of
PETA, retailers like J.Crew, Wet Seal, Forever 21, and Ann Taylor have stopped
selling fur in their
stores, and top designers such as Ralph Lauren, Marc Bouwer, and Stella
McCartney have banned
the use of fur in their designs.
-PETA prompted McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Safeway, and other retail
giants to improve
the treatment of animals sold for food.
-PETA’s undercover investigation at Belcross Farm pig-breeding facility led to
the first felony
indictments for cruelty to animals by farm workers.
-After a PETA investigation at Seaboard Farms, Inc., North America’s third-
largest pork producer,
the former manager pleaded guilty to felony cruelty to animals—marking the
first time in U.S.
history that a farmer pleaded guilty to felony cruelty for injuring and killing
animals raised for
food.
Millions of people saw just how cruelly chickens are treated before they’re
served on dinner plates
when PETA released the results of an investigation into a Pilgrim’s Pride
chicken slaughterhouse in
Moorefield, W.Va., where workers were shown on tape stomping birds,
kicking them, and
slamming them against floors and walls. Slaughterhouse employees ripped
the animals’ beaks off,
twisted their heads off, spat tobacco into their eyes and mouths, spray-
painted their faces, and
tied their legs together “for laughs.” Dan Rather echoed the views of all kind
people when he said
on the CBS Evening News, “[T]here’s no mistaking what [the video] depicts:
cruelty to animals,
chickens horribly mistreated before they’re slaughtered for a fast-food
chain.”
-PETA’s mobile spay-neuter clinic has sterilized thousands of animals
belonging to low- income
families.
-PETA routinely works with prosecutors and sheriff’s offices to stop the
abuse of domestic
animals
-in the winter PETA builds doghouses and delivers them (free of charge) to
animals forced to live
outdoors.
so much for 'ineffectual'....
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