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by atreadia on July 21st, 2007

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What are some of the reasons you don't support PETA?

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  • by hijklmno on July 21st, 2007

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    Bit of a leading question, no? You're assuming I don't support PETA.

    Well, "ethical treatment of animals". Yes, I agree with that. Animals should not be made to suffer unnecessarily. I'm against hunting for sport. I'm against battery farming. I'm against fur as fashion.

    However, I'm for hunting for food in certain situations. Are PETA really asking people throughout the world who rely on hunting for survival to stop? And I'm for people slaughtering animals for their pelts where it is essential for their survival - but very few animals in these situations are killed simply for their pelt/fur/skin, the rest of the animal will be used.

    The industrialised West doesn't make up the whole world. Do PETA believe that there are levels of "ethical treatment"?

    (Is it ok for an inuit to slaughter a seal, but not for a London stockbroker to slaughter a sheep? I'd say that, yes, that *is* ok.)

    No, they don't seem to accept levels. PETA's website says: "The invention of the automobile, the abolition of slavery, and the end of World War II ... necessitated restructuring and job retraining. Making changes to customs, traditions, and jobs is part of social progress — not a reason to deter it."

    Social progress, yes. But their examples all relate to Western civilisation (slavery still exists in the world, even the in the "civilised" west.) If we impose our beliefs on another culture, aren't we in a sense euthanising that culture?

    I'd be curious to know their stance on hunter-gatherers in Papua New Guinea or the Amazon. Should their civilisations be westernised?

    Social progress or death of societies? PETA would seem to favour the latter. If I'm wrong, please let me know.

    That's one reason I don't support PETA's hardline approach.

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    • Does PETA really expect people who depend on hunting for survival to starve or freeze to death?
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      Thanks for letting me know how extreme they are deemikay. I always thought that they were relatively sane people. I believed their problem was with the industrial massive-scale animal slaughter and agricultural waste it causes. It is even more shameful when we realize that not only do we not need to do that for our survival, but those practices actually harm our survival!
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      I always thought that they were against hunting when the survival of the hunters does not depend on it. You know, like a budwiser drinking redneck who is killing time and deer. I don't like them because I love to hike and take pictures of nature. It pisses me off to see people carrying guns around. It ruins the hiking experience and makes it more dangerous.

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      by failed_stoic on February 9th, 2009

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