PETA

[unixronin]

Not a new page -- it's actually about a year old -- but I don't think I've previously mentioned it.  Something Randy Cassingham mentioned in this week's This Is True column reminded me, though.

PETA.

"People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals."

Or, shorn of the bullshit:

Join PETA!

Travel to exotic, interesting cities!

Meet exotic, fascinating animals!

And kill them.  (Ethically!)

PETA should rename itself.  Their name sounds all upright and moral and all that, but if you actually read their platform and policies, a more honest name would be PEDA -- People for the Extermination of Domesticated Animals.

Comments

[fatcook.livejournal.com]

They are wrong on so many levels that whatever good they may have once done has been completely wiped out. They are one of the sure fire buttons to piss off My Husband.

[tabbifli.livejournal.com]

PETA : People Eating Tasty Animals.

I think it was either Denver or Boulder that had the more true acronym registered before the animal group came along. Uni-Col of Boulder, I think.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yes, there's that, but that's parody. :) People for the Extermination of Domesticated Animals is simple honest truth. Their platform, quite simply stated, is no more than that: Domesticating animals is unethical and restricts their freedom, therefore all species of domesticated animals should be exterminated. ALL species. Their stated goal is to have every domesticated animal species in the world become extinct in this generation.

[tabbifli.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I know.

At least, there are more of us than there are of them. And right now.. I'm perfectly willing to unethically rip their eyeballs out with a spork (I had to put my eldest cat to sleep yesterday. I'm a little upset).

Humanity restricts animals freedom. Period. Therefore, the correct response (obviously) is to remove humanity. We'd be doing pretty darn good at accomplishing that, except some countries haven't gotten the memo about lowering birth rates (don't mind me, I'm sick and on drugs right now..:P)

At any rate, there *are* more of us than there are of them, and if someone really wants to help critters they can be steered towards the ASPCA and the various rescue groups in their areas. The more those groups grow, the less PETA makes sense. PETA's brand of home-grown small-town bully tactics isn't going to fly these days, and they're going to discover themselves with a declining membership as people realize that it's not all about fur coats and vegetarianism. The best thing for those of us who would like to hasten that decline to do is to make the less politically interesting aspects of the organization come up front and center more and more often.

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

Actually, it was Mike Doughney (http://www.mtd.com/tasty/) who registered peta.org in 1995. He was a co-worker of mine for awhile in 1996.