The Onion’s recent video Advocacy Group Decries PETA’s Inhumane Treatment of Women is a parody, but isn’t this a valid critique of PETA? My typical policy is just to ignore everything they do because I think their stupid stunts are harmful to the cause, but it’s always bothered me that they parade women around for publicity stunts. Says a fake Onion PETA spokesman:
We have no intention of changing our tactics until every last animal on the planet is given more respect than women.
rfj writes eloquently about Michael Vick, animal cruelty, vegetarianism, and the idiocy of PETA. We ate in a Japanese restaurant recently at a table with some random people. I told the cook I didn’t eat meat, but did eat eggs. One of the other diners was like the people Gabe describes. She asked why I ate eggs when they come from the chicken, but I wouldn’t eat the chicken. I replied rather tersely without thinking, “because you don’t have to kill the chicken to get the egg out.” I don’t actually claim to be a vegetarian because I think it’s wrong to kill animals. In fact, I think that’s a naive view of nature. Still, I at times have to bite my tongue when it tries to remind people that killing dogs for fun and shooting deer for fun isn’t much different.