PETA for kids

[EchetusXe]

What is this place's obsession with PETA? This is supposed to be a website about video games, yet probably every week for the past three years there has been an active thread on PETA. Who the hell gives a shit? I never hear anything about PETA anywhere else on the internet or in my daily life, yet whenever PETA update their fucking website there is a post about it here. Does anybody really give a shit or is this some sort of habit that people have gotten into?

 

[Whateveralot]

Strong believes and religion all share the same common traits.

They always believe that they're right (and ONLY them), and that they are better. Therefor, to improve upon the world, you must find everyone and convince them to join your cause.

Indoctrinating little children is a great method for doing so, because it works.

My opinion on this subject is beyond just PETA, because I strongly believe that you should not raise children with any religion or belief. Children can learn a lot from the world and interpret it in a very good way. There is no reason you should smear their vision with judgement, because that's what religion is. It tells right form wrong for you, instead of allowing you to figure that out on your own.

 

[Sebster 105]

PETA is a disgusting organisation. I hope they all get mauled by a lion.

That they are trying to shag

..
What?

The problem is that Children are programmed to learn at that age. So they WILL believe this shit and they WILL try and do something about it.

 

[Quaxar]

I know why I don't go to their website, it's just so full of hate and missing so much logic.

"Some zoos and aquariums try to make "natural habitats" for the animals they collect, but they're about as natural as it would be if your parent moved you into the garage---permanently."
Wat?

What is this place's obsession with PETA? This is supposed to be a website about video games, yet probably every week for the past three years there has been an active thread on PETA. Who the hell gives a shit? I never hear anything about PETA anywhere else on the internet or in my daily life, yet whenever PETA update their fucking website there is a post about it here. Does anybody really give a shit or is this some sort of habit that people have gotten into?

Well, it is offtopic here... and this is the first PETA thread I have seen in ages, I don't know where you get your weekly PETA hate thread statistic from.

 

[Caligulust]

http://www.petakids.com/stencils.asp

Well, they make vandalism cute. I'd personally use them on animals.

 

[Gitty101]

I dislike Peta and all they stand for. They wanna stop me eating bacon? They can damn well try!

OT: These tactics are commonly used by operations such as Peta. Get em' while they're young and impressionable as the saying goes... Still, children of that age shouldn't be exposed to the sort of propoganda Peta distributes.

 

[Kroxile]

More OT: I'm not sure how having Mr. Whiskers (my 2nd grade class' pet hamster) was harmful... This seems pretty shady.

BECAUSE IT WUZ SLAVEVERY!11!

OT: It's PETA. I cannot think of them any less then I already do.

I can totally imagine the guy in your avatar (Sand) saying something like that

OT: I stopped reading at "the best way to help your animal friends is to stop eating them!" yeah... right... I think I'm gonna go have a hamburger now... at 7 am. Hell yea.

 

[Kroxile]

Wow. PETA = evil? Where the fuck does this attitude come from?

Did I miss the part where liking games = being an aspy cockmuncher who hates all lifeforms incapable of being lol'd at in a forum?

Where'd this idea that being nice to animals = communist dictatorship or some bullshit? Are you all Republican Fox news rejects or what the fuck?

On the contrary. I'm about as liberal as you get, but when you see this clear brainwashing propaganda BS its best to call them out on it. And as a liberal, I find that trying to take away someone's liberties (see what I did there?) to be the epitome of evil.

 

[Gamer_152]

I'm against anything that might pull unsuspecting kids into an organisation like PETA. They're a horrible, hypocritical organisation that do more harm than good to their own cause.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Hey long time no post guys, but I caught something that really Grinds My Gears.
Peta for kids.

http://www.petakids.com/save_animals.asp

There are so many issues with this page.

THis is a stupidly misinformed site that is aimed at impressionable 5 year olds to force their stupid beliefs on stupid kids stupid stupid.

And, I'm not incredibly right wing or anything,These guys just have it so very wrong it's scary.

"Does your school have a student-choice policy allowing students the right to refuse to dissect? Are there animals being held hostage at your school, commonly known as ?classroom pets? or ?hatching experiments?? Do your teachers plan yearly field trips to the zoo? It?s your school, too, and that means that your voice counts, so speak up and let your teachers know that there are alternatives to animal exploitation*. And don?t forget to recruit your classmates to help you tackle these issues!"

*And if you don't know how, PETA will do school assignments FOR you(?!!)


Look, I don't know if I'm overreacting, but it seems to me that it's scarily misinformed and that sites like this shoud not be aimed at such a young age, especially something so contreversial. Scaring kids out of absolutely anything and telling them to yell the slogans at any potential friend is a good way for the kid to not make friends, the most important thing to learn at that age.

It jsut seems so...Wrong...

I'm not really sure what you mean by "misinformed". The website is promoting an ethical view, not particular facts, so it's hard to say that they're "misinforming" you.

It's like someone walked up and tried to convince you that chocolate ice cream was better than vanilla and you claimed they were "misinforming" you. It just sounds silly.

That said, I'm not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, brainwashing children is bad and leaving them to decide things on their own is usually a good idea. On the other hand, it's hard to say whether children can make reasonably informed decisions about some of these things given the overwhelming bias of mainstream society.

Regardless, PETA is still one of the worst offenders for using intentionally misleading and melodramatic terminology to describe everything. "Hostages"? Really?

 

[Matthew Valkanov]

Whenever an article starts with "It's super easy" I'm hit by overwhelming nausea...

like the mulsing issue in Australia...excuse me PETA we do that to sheep for a REASON (preventing fly strike) what you think we do it just for the lulz?

Ah, but that's participating in animal slavery by keeping sheep in the first place. God forbid that we should keep something that has been developed over the millennia of humanity such shepherding or such, and do things necessary for the well being of an animal like mulesing -_-' Sarcasm aside, PETA is like any group claiming moral superiority(sects, cults, atheistic circles, new communist youth,...) : everything anyone else does is wrong, no matter the reason.

On a side note, I love your Footrot Flats Fallout dog

I see no problem here, personally. If people are allowed to raise their children Christian, sports fans or metalheads, this seems reasonable.

The problem is not so much the choice of how they're raising their kids, that's fair enough, but rather the fact that this is one of those leaflet articles that aims to push kids not already part of PETA to juvenile activism. And misguided juvenile activism at that.

 

[AMMO Kid]

PETA has given me some good lulz in my time I like how the article opens "It's super-easy to"

LULZ

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

Whenever an article starts with "It's super easy" I'm hit by overwhelming nausea...

like the mulsing issue in Australia...excuse me PETA we do that to sheep for a REASON (preventing fly strike) what you think we do it just for the lulz?

Ah, but that's participating in animal slavery by keeping sheep in the first place. God forbid that we should keep something that has been developed over the millennia of humanity such shepherding or such, and do things necessary for the well being of an animal like mulesing -_-' Sarcasm aside, PETA is like any group claiming moral superiority(sects, cults, atheistic circles, new communist youth,...) : everything anyone else does is wrong, no matter the reason.

On a side note, I love your Footrot Flats Fallout dog

I see no problem here, personally. If people are allowed to raise their children Christian, sports fans or metalheads, this seems reasonable.

The problem is not so much the choice of how they're raising their kids, that's fair enough, but rather the fact that this is one of those leaflet articles that aims to push kids not already part of PETA to juvenile activism. And misguided juvenile activism at that.

Eh. I see no issue with that. Parents are gonna raise their kids how they want and kids are gonna get into whatever they want. So long as the activities aren't actually illegal, it's really no different from religious leaflets asking people to spread the word.

*shrug*

Not my thing, but to each their own and such.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

PETA is stupid. Why? Because it stands for "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals". Or something like that.
Are they trying to tell me there's a universal rule about what ethics are and aren't?
Also, they think 404 is a bunny. Cheers.

 

[Sethzard]

They funny thing is that if humans didn't eat a lot of the animals we do then they would die out as there would be nothing to protect them.

 

[Whateveralot]

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peta got "save animals", but they arent doing that. Theyre making animals more misserable (In a human way, we dont really know if an animal itself is even able to understand missery) and killing MUCH more animals than they save. The damage such hypocrisy inflicts on children goes further than just "twisted beliefs", it shakes the very fundation of what is right and wrong. Unlike religion, peta dont have a "God works in mysterious ways"-excuse whenever their action conflicts their views, so kids cant resort to that.

Am I right that PETA is a strictly American organisation? I'm from Europe and we don't have PETA in my country, at least (of course, we have our own nutters, but those seem to do "ok").

How does PETA act? How do they "save" animals? Or better yet, why / how do they kill them? :s That seems pretty damn wierd.

 

[Vault101]

Whenever an article starts with "It's super easy" I'm hit by overwhelming nausea...

like the mulsing issue in Australia...excuse me PETA we do that to sheep for a REASON (preventing fly strike) what you think we do it just for the lulz?

Ah, but that's participating in animal slavery by keeping sheep in the first place. God forbid that we should keep something that has been developed over the millennia of humanity such shepherding or such, and do things necessary for the well being of an animal like mulesing -_-' Sarcasm aside, PETA is like any group claiming moral superiority(sects, cults, atheistic circles, new communist youth,...) : everything anyone else does is wrong, no matter the reason.

On a side note, I love your Footrot Flats Fallout dog

I see no problem here, personally. If people are allowed to raise their children Christian, sports fans or metalheads, this seems reasonable.

The problem is not so much the choice of how they're raising their kids, that's fair enough, but rather the fact that this is one of those leaflet articles that aims to push kids not already part of PETA to juvenile activism. And misguided juvenile activism at that.

thanks

anyway thats another thing that has somwhat confused me about thease activists

I mean really if they had their way then what would we do with the sheep/cattle? release them into the wild? no one could afford to keep them without some kind of return, really all we could do is kill them since they no longer have a purpose (and not even if we are jsut using them for their products) I dont know what kind of effect releasing them into the wold would have (could they even surivie?)

which reminds me of an incident that happed a long time ago, bunch of activists released a bunch of minks (ferret liek things used for fur) into the wild..what did they do? fuck shit up environmentally....woo! way to go!

I think that its ok to farm animals, as long as its done humanley (as possiible)

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

I agree with PETA's goal, not their methods.

They do more harm than good to animals by blowing everything out of proportion.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

Ugh


The ASPCA is more of the PETA that should be then what it is

If they got their shit together and did....Good...they could actually be taken seriously

 

[CarlMin]

Why all this hatred against PETA? Is this organization accountable for crimes I don't know about, or is it just that animal rights ethics and vegetarianism makes people furious?

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with this page. It introduces children to the possibility of a vegetarian diet, encourages them to keep an eye up for animal abuse in their community, in their school - how can this possibly be wrong?

You're like republicans ranting about how liberals brainwash children with this homosexual acceptance agenda in that you keep blaming organizations for their "political motives" aimed at the "innocent children", while completely failing to explain why these political motives should be harmful in the first place.