PETA
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 26, 2012
PETA is the worst thing ever to happen to animals. Morally serious people ignore them.
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Your Friday Moth to a Flame
Critter News
JUNE 12, 2009
PETA wants to buy the clinic owned by slain Dr. Tiller. "We We want to take a building that has been a flashpoint for conflict on one moral issue and turn it into a place of dialogue on another one," said Bruce Friedrich, vice president for policy at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Tags: PETA idiocy.
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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"
Animal Person
AUGUST 16, 2011
He is an unabashed speciesist, putting humans on “a different moral plane from that of other animals” (11) due to various reasons, such as our “vastly greater capacity for symbolic language, culture, and ethical judgment” (11). On page 172, when Herzog writes, “I am conflicted over many moral issues involving animals,” I respond, “No kidding!”
On What the Animal Ag Alliance Thinks of Us
Animal Person
MAY 30, 2009
According to Parker, here are the threats: the ALF, the ELF, SHAC, PeTA and the oddest member of the group, the HSUS. Perhaps it is the industry's inability to evolve morally that is behind the times. If any "drastic measures" are employed, they are to remove animals from suffering, not to impose our dietary choices on others.
Are We Really a Movement?
Critter News
APRIL 26, 2009
It's not sorry, it just hasn't found its moral, UNITED, ORGANIZED voice. Some fight for veganism, some against factory farms, some against experimentation, poaching, habitat encroachment, etc. There is a group for every cause. But how much can we accomplish when our resources are so divided? Who is our leader? Best Friends?
Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?
Animal Person
MAY 10, 2009
However, both his perceptions and misconceptions are based on: 1) observing the work of PeTA and HSUS; and 2) the assumption that those two organizations are in the same category--"animal rights." If you can get through the article's pernicious nonsense, there are some salient points, albeit the result of confusion on the part of the author.
Ends and Means
Animal Ethics
MARCH 5, 2008
Only the fourth is respectful of persons, which is a moral imperative. When someone from PETA, for example, refuses to denounce those who use violent means to pursue their ends, it links PETA with those means. The second is to use coercion (i.e., the threat of harm). The third is to use manipulation (e.g., deception).
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