why is PETA so extreme?
964507
I live in Alaska, where hunting and trapping are part of everyday life. I don't personally do either, but most people I know at least hunt, and many of my friends trap. (Say what you will about fur - it's a renewable resource and it's WARM) \n\nMost animal rights groups are extremists, boarding on terrorists. I know from personal experience - my brother is a hunting guide and a trapper and has spent YEARS under various types of attack from these idiots. One group went so far as to post his home phone number on their web site with the message, "feel free to call him and tell him what you think." My nephew couldn't answer the phone at home for months after that. The same group also admitted, in the same post that gave his phone number out, that they have a history of harassing my brother. They have a biostitute (a biologist who sells his "knowledge" to the highest bidder) who flew over my brother's house so low that my nephew was afraid to go out in his own yard. They admitted THAT on their web site, too. \n\nAnti-whaling groups freak out when our Natives hunt whales - tradition in coastal Alaska. It's not like the people who live in a small village that's not on the road system can just pop up to 7-11 or Safeway if they need to eat. \n\nIf someone ever throws paint on my beautiful coat, they'd better hope to God that I don't see them when I'm driving.\n\nWhy aren't they going after poachers? Or the jerks who shoot an animal just "for fun"? How about the puppy mills? Or the (@&! who abuse their pets? There are plenty of illegal activites out there they  could focus on, but they prefer to ignore that. I don't get it.\n\n"Fur is more violently opposed than leather because it's easier to pick on rich women than motorcycle gangs." - bumper sticker
1127252
Your right on the money...they do support these organizations. Ignore some of these morons on here...they have no clue what their talking about...\n\nThe fact is that if the government went after PETA for supporting ELF & ALF then the libs would go insane...they are all major supporters of the Democrats.
1093998
Well,\nDo you think slaughtering a cow is abuse?\nOr cutting a chickens head off to butcher it?\nOr sticking a sharp hook through a fish, then chopping it's head off. \nOr throwing a live lobster into a pot of boiling water.\nUnless you are a Vegan, its all abuse, right? \nIf you eat animals, what dif does it make which one you are "abusing"? \nAlligator tail is the healthiest meat you can eat.\nHow about all the gators in Fl eating humans and puppies, is that abuse?  Makes you go  HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
381788
Okie dokie.\nHumans are a greater threat to nature because we're the only ones that are capable of producing the real pollution stuffs. Animals, unlike the human beings, know what's good and bad..besides those little creatures know more things than we do! They know when there's a flod coming! Ask the fishies! The people, are clueless. They're all like, huh, the wolrd is a huge place, huh, I can draw graffities on that public property thing, huh. Bah I don't know! What do I look like?\nBut I'm not going to do your essay for you.
743109
I love dogs, but giving dogs or animals so much value over human it damn right outrageous, people spend thousands of dollars on their dogs while there are a lot of starving children all over the world that no one cares about. Those dogs could live without all those luxuries, while a child cannot survive without food. Dogs are getting more importance over human nowadays I think that people are just fed up with the human race and just turning all their attention to animals instead. I don't know where is this country going to  I think it is heading straight into the animal kingdom.
1170006
The Humane Society and the SPCA are more in line with my thinking. They stress reverence for living things, and having a relationship based on compassion between people and animals, without the smug, selfrightousness present in many PETA members.
898255
PETA / THINK \n\nThat"s an oxymoron
531637
That is basically impossible to know. but try looking for something PETA might post.
832064
I can't say for sure that it's PETA, but some activists came to this area one time, and set free all the mink at a local mink ranch. The thing they didn't count on, was that mink are VERY mean animals. Nobody found any human corpses, but the mink cleaned out every outside cat in town, and ate them. And some of the smaller dogs were killed too. I figure these activists freed 100 mink to kill 500 other animals.\n\nThey probably came from a big city, and never found out about the consequences of their actions, because even though they stop into our town to commit a crime, they don't care enough to get hold of a newspaper and find out what trouble they really caused. It's happened more than once around here, at different mink ranches.\n\nSo when the owner of the mink ranch wakes up in the morning, not only are all his mink gone, but so are the cats, his dog is no more than a chewed up carcass, and the trailer park down the road is completely devoid of pets. Quite the job these people are doing of saving animals' lives, don't you think?
769508
Well... at least for now that's true.... until some lame-brain from PETA gets civil rights for animals. \n\nHowever you will need more than just an animal's lack of rights to win a debate. Though a good starting point, you will need to build on that primes. Tout the benefits derived from making sure drugs are safe before using them on Humans...
47036
kill some to save more-unlike what peta wants
825569
Because the extremeists are the ones who get all fired up over political issues. The rest of us have a life.
799055
2.  Although I find it ironic that one wouldn't field dress the PETA rep first.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nand talk about a mess!  Millet and barley EVERYWHERE!
1057084
Peace loving, but when the bad guys back you into a corner you gota do something.\n\n\nLOL, allready got my PETA card. J/K
593102
Society is messed up when we're more concerned with saving animal & plant life than human life.
944830
Man.\n\nKills without motive, without provocation, for sport, sometimes just out of boredom and ennui.\n\nCan be exceptionally cruel to it's own kind as well as other species, slaughters entire species into extinction for reasons other than food or survival.\n\nWill selfishly pollute and ruin the environment for personal profit, without even a thought to the consequences to its own offspring.\n\nI can't think of a nastier animal than we humans.  \n\nBest to you.
608094
They are against evreything, including having pets. They believe all animals should run free & wild. I may be a vegetarian, but PETA is crazy.