Thread:YingHe/@comment-36159587-20190323014144/@comment-39025738-20190513200711

Ur right about us learning it in 4th grade. We are doing a unit of the legislative branch and the teacher just wanted to review it(even though this is a honors class). Changing the topic to allow me to vent right quick, let’s talk about how stupid PETA is. I’m about to go on a rant here, so bear with me.

There is no reason that PETA should do what they do. On the surface, they seem like a normal animal rights group (and I fricking LOVE animals so this makes me pissed off when I read anything PETA-related). The problem is as soon as you search ‘peta’ on google, it shows the atrocities they have committed. They lack basic knowledge about the animals that they are rescuing. an example of this was when peta bought lobsters and released them into the Missouri River. I’ll let you think why that is a TERRIBLE idea. They sent death threats to a Inuit boy for harpooning a whale. And you might ask ‘why did he do it?’ The answer is BECAUSE THATS THE ONLY WAY FOR HIS VILLAGE TO GET FOOD! HE WAS LITERALLY HELPING AROUND 700 PEOPLE SURVIVE AND PEOPLE FLAME HIM FOR NO REASON. Another thing they do is run “shelters”. Lemme tell you, those shelters aren’t even full-on shelters. They kill more animals then they adopt. In 2010, 84 percent of the animals PETA took in were killed within 24 hours, according to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. A mere 1.5 percent of dogs and cats reportedly found an actual home.(If you want motel proof then find petakillsanimals.com but fair warning some of the pictures are really horrible and might not be safe for developing minds.) PETA LITERALLY STOLE SOMEBODY’S DOG OFF OF THEIR PORCH AND EUTHANIZED IT WHEN THEY BROUGHT IT BACK TO HQ. THIS WASNT A STRAY OR A SICK DOG, THIS WAS SOMEBODY’S FAMILY PET! And now for the most offensive thing they ever did: they attacked the image of the late Steve Irwin. Now, I’m the kinda kid who will bring up random animal facts in conversations just so people. I learnt that watching videos made by Steve on the TV and on YouTube. He’s one of the people who I idolize, and seeing a organization such as PETA defame him like that... it just makes my blood boil. The other major problem is that PETA stayed quiet about Steve Irwin until recently when Google celebrated and paid tribute to him. PETA is well-known for its distinctly disturbing ads often portraying naked or bound women in situations mimicking ways in which animals are abused. I wouldn’t put it beyond them to use the Google Doodle of Irwin as a way to stir the pot. On PETA’s website, it even talks about why it uses controversial tactics. It states that it tries to make its “actions colorful and controversial” to grab media attention in hopes of spreading “the message of kindness to animals.” PETA even equates its success to this tactic. As a certain news website says, “If anybody should be talking about Irwin’s controversial ways of educating, it should be credible conservationists, not an euthanizing organization with the same name as bread.”

Thx for letting me vent.