PETA has always felt like a corporate strategy in the same vein as the oil companies infiltrating green movements and steering them away from nuclear back in the 70’s and 80’s. Like PETA exists to make Vegans and Vegetarians look bad, imo.
Yup.
Just had a random thought… twitch.tv is owned by Jeff Bezos. Hasan Piker is on the front page of that site any time he turns on his webcam. That’s kinda weird isn’t it?
Don’t know why I just thought of that.
Hasan is a big streamer
Big streamers make twitch money
Bezos loves money
Not so weird
there are so many better vegan orgs than peta. peta is just clickbait for twitter.
Why does vegan need an organization?
…To accomplish goals?
ALF was pretty cool but the government didn’t really like them too much.
All Vegans, animal lovers, anyone with empathy hates PETA. Fuck PETA.
Plenty of vegans do not hate PETA. We may not always agree with their actions, like using generative AI to make ads, but they do a lot of good work and have contributed much to the vegan movement.
Also,
Vegans, animal lovers, anyone with empathy
pretty redundant
Then plenty of vegans aren’t aware all the shit PETA does.
Yeah it’s usually some nebulous handwaving or disinformation and not concrete examples of their policies so it makes sense that not all would be “aware” of it
Can you enlighten us then?
Looks like shit
You don’t like her manly shoulders!?
What?
Oh, just that it is like a woman’s head on a man’s body.
Maybe you’re too young to remember women wearing shoulder pads but that shit is way out of fashion and this ad is garbage.
Yeah, when women wore shoulder pads it was obvious and for looks. This is just a women’s head juxtaposed on a male in a suit.
Help the animals by boiling the oceans
lol. they’re also using the aesthetic of a mormon wife to sell their message. that lady buys 20 pounds of beef a week.
trust me, i used to live in salt lake city.
PETA is the AIPAC of people who want to eat less or no meat.
I’m not sure what PETA was thinking here… I’d reckon that it would be unlikely for people who respond to the proto-fascist propaganda style to consider going vegan.
Surprising that anti-Peta sentiment is so prevalent here on Lemmy, kind of thought that would be left behind at Reddit. Aside from their deliberately abrasive marketing and the misinformation about them kidnapping people’s pets to euthanize them, what did they do?
While animal activism is a good thing, PETA has a unique “the ends justify the means approach” that gives other activists a bad name. Historically they were famous for extreme publicity stunts to raise awareness for animals who can’t advocate for themselves, but in recent years function more as a lobbyists interweaving animal protectionism with various unrelated issues. These lobbying efforts are contributing to the erosion and brain drain of American academic science among other important issues.
Full disclosure, I’m biased and affiliated with a non-profit trying to save academic research in Oregon. PETA has been the largest source of misinformation, using a huge amount of money to establish billboard campaigns, targeted ads, and misleading polls to paint the research center as villainous. Everyone wants to protect animals but the nuance of protecting life saving research dependant on animal models is a much harder position to argue than “save the animals”.
Research is slowly drifting away from animal testing, but today many scientific breakthroughs (some concrete examples currently under threat include a cure for HIV, GLP1S, Non-hormonal birth control) rely on animals and non-animal alternatives haven’t yet caught up in capability.
If your interested in learning more, Save Science Oregon is a website we’ve built to battle some of this information.
PETA would be more respected if they weren’t so batshit crazy. Their is literally no line that they wouldn’t cross just for free publicity. They are just as bad as religion when it comes to rampant proselytizing.
“They kill animals!”
That’s overwhelmingly the critique people have of PETA. They humanely euthanize instead of just letting animals starve on the streets. Not one viable alternative has been proposed here beyond “let other shelters try to adopt them” like there are shelters turning animals away for the sake of turning them away and not because they literally don’t have the capacity to do anything.
That’s why the overwhelming majority of these complaints are just vague innuendo about PETA doing “cruelty,” whatever that means exactly.
They pointed out that smug carnist bros are actually terrible people. They will never be forgiven in these sorts of spaces.
They say it’s because “PETA is crazy!” or some other non-statement like they don’t turn around and bitch about vegans as a whole.
People don’t hate them because they’re “annoying” or “crazy.” They hate them because they’re right. No one wants to be confronted by their Jungian shadow.
Kinda tracks with their history. PETA kills animals that they take in at a much higher rate than any other animal shelter. But yeah, keep generating click bait headlines to advance your cause.
Omg. If we gonna start a fight about everything we might as well live in the forest
People Eating Tasty Animals remains the one true PETA.
There is no “AI”. If you’re claiming that this image was generated with a computer, then of course. Who cares? There are real problems out there. “AI” is literally being used to genocide palestinians.
There is no “AI”. If you’re claiming that this image was generated with a computer, then of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedantry
Who cares? There are real problems out there. “AI” is literally being used to genocide palestinians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring
The strange part of your second bit is you attack OP for being anti-AI while you yourself are anti-AI, evidently not realizing that reducing PETA’s use of AI would definitely reduce the use of AI against Palestinians in a simple funding sense; paying money to AI companies to make ads like PETA is presumably doing/supporting helps the companies that develop AI weapons that are used against Palestinians.
Classic purity test infighting to make yourself feel better by attacking someone, even if they’re your ally.
paying money to AI companies to make ads like PETA is presumably doing/supporting
That ad isn’t anything you couldn’t do using open models and tools on your own GPU. Not saying that they did but it’s not anything you’d necessarily need to pay those companies for.
Vegans shouldn’t let themselves be associated with the terrorists of PETA.
PETA is okay with animal cruelty so long as they’re the ones doing the cruelty.
PETA is the dog that caught the car. It has no clue what to do now, and it continually hurts itself in its confusion.
