PETA is okay with animal cruelty so long as they're the ones doing the cruelty.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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PETA is the dog that caught the car. It has no clue what to do now, and it continually hurts itself in its confusion.
There was an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! all about PETA. Gives a good overview of what they're really all about.
Yeah they were killing more dogs and cats then kill shelters. Because fucking sociopaths. They don't even believe in pets.
They run no rejection animal shelters. Since people in general buy too many pups from breeders other animal shelters have to reject many animals that people neglect and try to get rid of. PETA does not reject any of those that get rejected by other shelters. This means they have a huge overflow of animals that people bring there. Sadly that means euthanizing ones that they do not have the money to support. If you are pro-pets and do not fund PETA to support all the neglected pets it feels a bit hypocritical to criticize them for euthanizing when the problem is that there is too many neglected pets.
"They like to bite off more than they can chew so of course they have to spit it all over the table"
I understand, and agree, that the root of the problem is the amount of abandoned animals but I still think that what peta does is wrong. By accepting more animals than they can care for they are robbing those animals the chance to find a shelter that can actually take them in, or someone willing to adopt them, or a temporary foster home, even a life as a stray could be better than death IMO. Euthanasia should only be used as a last resort, I dont think peta is doing enough to exhaust their options and, I reiterate, they are not allowing others to try by pretending to shelter those animals. A no rejection shelter that kills the animals they cant care for is just a regular shelter with extra (and careless) steps.
If you are pro-pets and do not fund PETA to support all the neglected pets it feels a bit hypocritical to criticize them for euthanizing
I can barely fund myself
I think PETA euthanizing the animals is better than pet owners creative ways to kill their pets because shelters won’t take them.
The other shelters are already full, that's why they take in so many animals. They are the last stop.
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If you are pro-pets, don't buy "designer" puppies. Get your animals from a shelter, or from rescues.
I absolutely adore betta fish, but I sure as hell won't buy one. I don't want to support keeping fish in tiny cups.
Frankly, what we need is legislation that forces pet stores to ensure that any animal kept with an intent to sell mush be housed and displayed in an appropriate enclosure for it to survive its entire natural life. That way the animals don't suffer if they aren't sold, and people get a good idea of what an actual appropriate setup looks like for that animal. I see too many nightmares on Craigslist and Facebook where people are keeping a 5ft corn snake in a 10 gallon enclosure because that's what the baby corn snake was in at the pet store.
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Yeah that show was full of "libertarian" bullshit. But nowadays Penn has gone vegan and abandoned "libertarianism". People can grow up.
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Show your moral superiority to PETA by going vegan and not making slop.
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This is consistent with their general scumminess.
PETA has always felt like a corporate strategy in the same vein as the oil companies infiltrating green movements and steering them away from nuclear back in the 70's and 80's. Like PETA exists to make Vegans and Vegetarians look bad, imo.
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All Vegans, animal lovers, anyone with empathy hates PETA. Fuck PETA.
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there are so many better vegan orgs than peta. peta is just clickbait for twitter.
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Help the animals by boiling the oceans
I don't know much about them but I know them because of this stupid poster:
But... this is not how this works
Lol, that is just hilariously bad.
PETA should be charged for shearing like that.
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I want YOU to shut the fuck up Peta!
I'm going to start eating meat again, just out of spite (I'm not actually).
PETA is the AIPAC of people who want to eat less or no meat.
Got it! Becoming an animal tomorrow!
Watch out, PETA will try to euthanize you
Good
Peta is also alright with mass culling animals 🤣
lol. they're also using the aesthetic of a mormon wife to sell their message. that lady buys 20 pounds of beef a week.
trust me, i used to live in salt lake city.
Peta sucks anyway
PETA sucks but surely this has gotta be a false flag
Who is the MAGA face on the poster? Or is she just an idoru?
I'm not sure what PETA was thinking here... I'd reckon that it would be unlikely for people who respond to the proto-fascist propaganda style to consider going vegan.
Surprising that anti-Peta sentiment is so prevalent here on Lemmy, kind of thought that would be left behind at Reddit. Aside from their deliberately abrasive marketing and the misinformation about them kidnapping people's pets to euthanize them, what did they do?
While animal activism is a good thing, PETA has a unique "the ends justify the means approach" that gives other activists a bad name. Historically they were famous for extreme publicity stunts to raise awareness for animals who can't advocate for themselves, but in recent years function more as a lobbyists interweaving animal protectionism with various unrelated issues. These lobbying efforts are contributing to the erosion and brain drain of American academic science among other important issues.
Full disclosure, I'm biased and affiliated with a non-profit trying to save academic research in Oregon. PETA has been the largest source of misinformation, using a huge amount of money to establish billboard campaigns, targeted ads, and misleading polls to paint the research center as villainous. Everyone wants to protect animals but the nuance of protecting life saving research dependant on animal models is a much harder position to argue than "save the animals".
Research is slowly drifting away from animal testing, but today many scientific breakthroughs (some concrete examples currently under threat include a cure for HIV, GLP1S, Non-hormonal birth control) rely on animals and non-animal alternatives haven't yet caught up in capability.
If your interested in learning more, Save Science Oregon is a website we've built to battle some of this information.
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