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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
PETA are totally counter-productive to the cause they appear to champion.
While I do tend to believe that with endangered species it is the humans who should give way (it is way easier for us to move/retrain), unless it is a proven issue I want to avoid knee-jerk reactions.
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To keep going on the PETA tangent. While some good does come out of their organization, such as awareness. So much dis-information is pouring out of it, it's terrible. Don't get my wrong I am all for ethic treatment of animals, and I find people being needless cruel to animals just as distinguishing as the next person. But on no level do I think animals are the same as humans.
If PETA had their way, no one would eat animals, use animals for work, or have animals for pets. But the one thing that totally irks me with PETA is the call for the complete ban on animal testing. Animals testing has been given a bad name by these organizations. They paint scientists as lunatic animal torturers. When the opposite is true. If we banned animal testing we would effectively halt the production of any new medications. Every new drug from chemotherapy to Tylenol gets tested on animals before humans. Never does a serious drug get testing done on humans before going through animal testing. Stopping this would be killing humans in favour of saving rats and rabbits.
That's why lots of people say that PETA doesn't care about humans.
/end PETA rant