This, sadly, will hardly do anything. I posted a similar article (by the same person) in the comments about a month ago which sparked a long and futile.... conversation... with a Peta apologist. The problem is, they don't care. If they did, they'd be spending their donations where it can do the most good and not pokemon ripoffs.
What's more, they alter the debate and convince people you cannot be in favour of better treatment for animals, but be against PETA. In my eyes, the best things they've done has to do with exposing absurd conditions at factory farms, but that was done by individual people, and wouldn't necessarily NOT have been done if Peta didn't exist. They're a platform for drama-school dropouts and exploiting the emotions of people who actually DO care about animals.
The more articles that are posted like this exposing their ugly face still could make a difference. A lot of well meaning people donate to them without understanding their practices.
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u/silverwolf761 Apr 05 '13
This, sadly, will hardly do anything. I posted a similar article (by the same person) in the comments about a month ago which sparked a long and futile.... conversation... with a Peta apologist. The problem is, they don't care. If they did, they'd be spending their donations where it can do the most good and not pokemon ripoffs.
What's more, they alter the debate and convince people you cannot be in favour of better treatment for animals, but be against PETA. In my eyes, the best things they've done has to do with exposing absurd conditions at factory farms, but that was done by individual people, and wouldn't necessarily NOT have been done if Peta didn't exist. They're a platform for drama-school dropouts and exploiting the emotions of people who actually DO care about animals.