I read an article that read something about peta bitching about seeing eye dogs, and them not getting enough love. BULLSHIT. They are just like normal dogs, just trained to help people get around like normal people.
There are people who kill animals in dog fights, I know of one that is starting up three houses down from me.
My neighbor had 23 cats. TWENTY-THREE CATS!!! all of them lived outside to. They didn’t feed the about two years after we moved in and they pushed them on us. We called the Humane Society, they told us to kill ‘em. Serously! They told us to set up traps, or stand out on back porches with guns.
They finaly went to live down at the dumpsters,

PS: Don’t get me started on how many have been killed with rabies.

Wif love- White-y

Juan, you hit most of the ones I know of, but forgot the fetishistic and exploitative girl-on-girl kissing stunt not so long ago and a particularly nasty ad campaign a few years back that compared fur to women’s public hair in order to generate disgust. (Because it’s PETA’s place to tell women to wax & shave their privates.) Last I checked, we’re mammals too.

Arthur was one beloved dog, all his life; he just died, and is mourned by all who knew him. http://arthurdogblog.blogspot.com/

“they aim straight for the sensitive points of various factions because they know that is what will provoke the loudest response.”

I think you nail it here. I think what will make them stop is their source of funding (supporters) dwindling. Which hopefully will keep happening as long as their activities are criticized.

Frankly, I don’t know how to get rid of PETA as much as I think that they do harm to the legitimacy of the movement. I think that getting upset at them is what they want, and I think that ignoring them just makes them plan an even more offensive event for next time. Education is all well and good, but you’d have to assume that even they believe their campaigns. I am skeptical on this point; I think that they nurse their persecution complex as a very cynical fund-raising device and they aim straight for the sensitive points of various factions because they know that is what will provoke the loudest response. The only idea I have left is a dampening counter-protest, in the spirit of pledge drives tied to the number of anti-abortion protesters blocking the neighborhood clinic or the clever people who raise money by drowning out the shenanigans of the Westboro Baptist Church. This plan is imperfect, as you sensibly point out, but I’m hard-pressed for alternatives. I’m tired of writing “I hate PETA, but…” posts, I want to start writing some “I hate PETA, and so…” posts.

A completely different issue is animal testing for cosmetics. In these cases, “for the good f mankind” is hardly the issue, and that kind of testibg should be fought.

I’ve been on a foie gras farm. I have never seen, in any of the undercover footage I have watched, anything as horrifying or disgusting or hellish as what I saw in that place. I couldn’t even begin to describe the kind of sh*t that happened there. And let’s not forget, human rights are tangled into this as well–the workers at these places, like the one I visited, are treated horrendously, and many of them are POC (mostly Latino, from what I understand). So if you want to spite PeTA by buying a gourmet dish enjoy a little worker cruelty with your animal abuse; it’s funny how those things are intertwined.

Now I hate PeTA. Their tactics suck; they’re a racist, sexist, vile organization and the vast majority of vegans and vegetarians I know can’t stand them. But the animals you’re talking about hurting just to get to PeTA did not choose to have this group advocate for them. They’re entirely innocent.

But go ahead and do some mindless harm to something innocent if it makes you feel better…

Oh…and I am a PROUD omnivore. Though if I am stuck up in the Andes, I would want a vegan to be with me. Another omnivore would taste funny.

I place PETA in the same camp as the “black isrealites” or “Andrea Dworkin”. Every movement has its fanatic extreme. The real jerks are the people who fund them.

Sorry we had to disagree on the testing thing ABM.