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Jen-

I agree that PETA are very annoying. They are a very radical organization with messed up ideals. Calling for horses to stop being whipped in a race? I can tell you this much, a whip does not hurt a horse. If you hurt the horse, he will buck you off. I rode a horse and the saddle slipped down his back. He did not like that at all and he let me know. (I found myself sitting on the ground looking up at him.) Racing horses have been bred over the years to be faster. Unfortunately, this has also caused them to become more fragile. Was Eight Belles death sad? Yes. But having spent a lot of time around horses you come to realize that these racing horses are glass compared to the horses normal people ride. To think that these horses do not love to run and race is silly. If they wouldn't want to do it, they wouldn't. If my horse doesn't want to cross a tiny stream, he won't and there is no way to make him do it. (Tugging, pulling, bribing, begging... he won't budge.)

PETA should really get their priorities straight. PETA needs to realize that there are people out there who eat meat, wear leather and use animals for work. This country would not have survived if the Native Americans and the colonists had said "Gosh, those animals look tasty but killing hurts them so we will eat and wear plants."

Who should we listen to? Should we listen to the people who work with horses every day, who love them and train them and make them their number one priority? Or should we listen to the radical PETA who "liberates" thousands of mink from mink farms into the wild, only to have the

In my opinion...PETA is nothing more than a bunch of self righteous nut jobs who need to find something better to do with their lives, along with Greenpeace. Part of God's Covenant with Noah was that man would have dominion over all animals. That means racing them, whipping them, wearing them, and eating them.

Southern Belle-

The al Queda's measures are extreme and garnering attention. I suppose you support them as well?

PETA are nothing more than a bunch of terrorists. They sabotage and destroy to get their way. They ignore the rights of others to get their selfish views across.

If you love animals, why would you let captive, human fed animals out into the wild where they die of starvation?

Why would you throw red paint onto fur coats, rendering them useless to the owner and dishonoring the beautiful animals that gave their lives up for the coat?

So you don't agree, that's nice. What makes your right? Why can't the rest of us express our views as well?

When people advocate violence, they lose their right to an opinion.

" While PETA's measures may be extreme at least they are garnering attention from people who otherwise don't care about any animals other than their "pets." "

PETA Extreme = violence

(FYI- the animals are killed in a quick and humane way. I have visited the farms and it quick and painless.)

PETA Is a crock, and if you're a true lover of animals you WOULDN'T support them.

1. They support The use of humiliating and hurting people, even resorting to violence or threats of violence to "Get their point across."

2. It has been proven time and again that donations to PETA does not go to helping animals.

They spend their money on multi million dollar attack ads, billboards, commercials, web development, and to pay spokespeople to speak on their behalf.

(While some claim they volunteer their time, that time does come at a price. Past documents have shown just how much it costs to get a celeb to "volunteer".)

Very little money actually goes to helping animals compared to humane societies like the ASPCA.

Animals that could use that money die everyday at shelters because they don't have the funds to care for them long term. Instead of spreading the money where its needed, PETA chooses to spend that money on Getting Pam Anderson to pose nude.

This is actually a good article.

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/tabor/050622

PETA can't even dispute many of these facts, because a lot of these facts came from PETA's own documents.

Not to say other animal causes don't have their issues... but having spent time at local Shelters in Wisconsin and Michigan, I can tell you they do a lot more with small donations to help animals, than PETA does with their multi-million dollar organization.

True animal lovers support local shelters... not places like PETA.

Unfortunately, as a supporter of PETA you'll get that. I can't say I feel bad for PETA supporters. You were verbally "attacked" (Though I really don't look at it that way. JoJO has a point)

A friend of mine was physically assulted by a PETA member because her coat LOOKED like it had fur trim, even though a blind man could see that it wasn't even Faux fur. It was a cotton fiber. She needed 3 stitches.

They want fair and humane treatment for animals, yet they kill more animals in a week than 5 humane shelters combined in a year.

And they assult, humiliate and attack people. How does that help do anything for their cause other than make them look like nut cases?

they spend money on commercials that never air and bilboards that are removed because they voilate privacy acts (Like using pictures of Prostate cancer survivors without their permission... saying "Got Milk" as if Milk is the only link to prostate cancer.)

What's sad is... when you hear "Animal rights" people think PETA. And when people think PETA, they think extremist nut cases who are off their rocker, and ignore them.

That doesn't help the cause for humane treatment of animals. Not 1 ioda.

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Well in 2006 the group took in over 3,000 animals. Only 12 were adopted out.

There was another website were PETA activists were quoted as saying, they'd prefer animals to go extinct before they're made into pets. However, I can't remember what site I saw that on.

LOL duars!
Doesn't PETA stand for People Eating Tasty Animals?!?!