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« on: October 04, 2015, 05:23:55 PM »

I wouldn't refer to PETA as "radical". They are more of an established group of stuntpeople, and they're good at their stated aim: to get attention at any possible situation. There the kind of group that enjoys people disliking them.

PETA workers, in their euthanasia enthusiasm, went to someone's house, took their dog off the porch, and killed the dog. 
At least this group left his pet alive so he might be able to get it back.
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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2015, 11:54:07 PM »

I wouldn't refer to PETA as "radical". They are more of an established group of stuntpeople, and they're good at their stated aim: to get attention at any possible situation. There the kind of group that enjoys people disliking them.

PETA workers, in their euthanasia enthusiasm, went to someone's house, took their dog off the porch, and killed the dog. 
At least this group left his pet alive so he might be able to get it back.

A) that's not radical in the sense in using the word. 'Radical' doesn't mean annoying.

B) PETA does a lot of unpleasant stuff that nobody else does. In the case your're referring to the organisation were requested by a landowner to sort out the stray dogs in the area that were mutilating his cows udders. They were told that the trailer park did not allow dogs running free, so sadly they did not consider one of the "strays" was a actually a beloved pet, especially as it lacked a collar etc. the owner of the dog was not home, but other residents were around and gave permission for PETA to do their shenigans. PETA screwed up, sure, and the organisation admitted it. But is the human error of two PETA workers comparable to the very real problem of the proliferation of strays that are created by the pet breeding industry and inadaqute neutering programs. People who are angry because PETA euthanise animals are being sentimental and lack perspective.

It was an instance of human error, sure, but one that arose out of PETAs ethos which combines opposition animal domestication in principle with an emphasis on euthanasia as preferable to any suboptimal conditions of animal life.  PETA actively opposes efforts by other groups to neuter stray animals - they aren't happy unless those strays are dead.

There's nothing wrong with being sentimental. It is why most people oppose animal cruelty at all.  It is better than the sort of warped utilitarianism that PETA promotes that only measures the negative potentialities death better than life for the animals it "rescues."     
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« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2015, 12:14:54 AM »

Antonio, why do you bother arguing with some hippie who can't accept basic facts of life?

Humans are omnivorous. Humans have a position in the food chain. Not eating meat goes against those facts of life and we shouldn't leave a small brainless minority too weak to accept the laws of nature transform human alimentation in an unnatural way.

Human alimentation has been in a constant process of transformation over the eons.  The agricultural revolution, and in the far distant past the invention of cooking, are transformations that one might more readily consider "unnatural" than this.   There is no law of nature that says humans must eat meat regardless of the resources of their environment.
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