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Owner59 -> RE: PETA - The REAL killers (9/26/2007 9:24:18 AM)
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ORIGINAL: SimplyMichael
I find it amusing how many people get pissed at PETA for killing cats and dogs who have no problem supporting industries that exist to kill animals.
PETA is an organization of extremists and like all of them, they tend to be a bit nutty. Frankly though, I would take PETA over a world run by the food corporations like Monsanto any day of the week.
You have a point Michael,though a small one.Most PETA types,and the committed vegan,do not use leather(did someone say vinyl?),or or any animal product,at least not consciously.Whether they are the ones complaining here,I don`t know.
But I think one can eat meat,and wear leather shoes,etc., and not go over board.Which is something people tent to do,even if they`re not extreme.
Some examples: Veal.We eat cows,and have for maybe thousands of years.But we`re so damm selfish,that we gotta have super tender, sweet meat ,ie veal.We(people) always seem to take it a step farther.We take other wise healthy calves and tie them off,to sit immobile,and eat.Until of course,slaughter day.
You can eat beef,and still think that veal production is cruel and wrong.
Here`s another practice,that`s over the top.Way over.
http://www.notmilk.com/killacalf.html
It`s the practice of keeping cows prego,so they produce more milk.They often shoot the new borns,re-prego the cow,and the process continues.
You can be a milk drinker,or icecream lover,and still believe that that is over the top.It is not necessary to "up" production,by this extremely cruel practice.It`s only to make more money.We don`t need to go that extra step.We can do better.
Another example is vanity.
We don`t need to harm and kill animals,to test make-up.
Especially the wholesale slaughter,that happens world wide.
We will always need to test with animals.But only for saving lives and health.Not for make-up.
I think that anyone should be able to eat what they want.I`m never going to tell folks not to eat flesh.
But we can do a hell of a lot better,than we are,in the way animals are treated and kept.
I don`t want to end hunting.But I would like the critter,to have a sporting chance.These penned in hunting areas,w/ the caged animal releases,is over the top and selfish.And not even close to what my dad would call sportsmanship.You can love hunting,and hate that kind of gluttony.
I don`t want to end fishing,but I hate to see dolphins cut to pieces,just so I can eat tuna.We can do better.
The PETA type,is also prone to go to far(like all humans).Taking a moderate approach(like most people have)and going the next step,to the point of telling kids,that drinking milk=calve shooting.Peta can do better on that shit.
But they save dogs.And that`s the part I like.
They also want to shut down breeders and puppy mills.An extreme position,and will never happen.That is an area,where people can do a lot better, too.
Do you really have to have a new, pure breed puppy?
Is it all that important,to have a puppy,over a mature dog?
Are we so selfish,that we gotta have that "puppy" experience,while wonderful dogs languish at the pound,many on death row?(remember the millions of un-wanted dogs?Don`t forget them)
There`s two really friendly,loving(pure-breed) Labradors at my shelter.A golden and a black.So sweet and playful,and needing love,so badly.What`s wrong with them?
Why are folks so selfish,that they need to support the production of more and more new dogs?We can do better.
Many of those dogs,end up at shelters.Like the two at my shelter.
Don`t even get me going about dog racing,and how hounds are just things to throw away,when they no longer run fast.I could do another seven pages of posts about that crap!We can do better.Much .much better.
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