in my opinion i find that they don't care about the treatment of animals, more they care about gaining a win or media attention.
Sorry, are you saying a "win" for PETA is not a "win" for animals? Are you saying PETA holds a secret agenda. I, and PETA's multimillion membership, are of the belief that PETA's prime concern are the animals.
In regard to media attention, you have to accept without media nothing will get done. Employing media means that the message of animal protection gets out to millions of more people than it would without it. But the trick is how to get the media's attention. Sadly, the abuse that goes on inside factory farms is simply not enough. There needs to be excitement around a campaign, and this is where PETA excels. Sometimes, many people think how this excitement is generated goes too far. But at the end of the day, what would you prefer: an adult conscenting to brave freezing tempreatures in a bikini, campaigning on the cruelty of fur (and getting the evidence of how disgusting uir farms are, making people buy less of it; or, the average-joe standing outside burberry with a placard, achieving nothing for the animals.
Animal lives are literally on the line. PETA is totally in its right to push the animal protection message to its extreme. I mean, isn't saving the lives of innocents worth the risk of a media-stuff up.
For instance with the banning of jumps horse racing in victoria, they wanted it banned immediatly, not phased out. Banning immediatly would cause a "win" even though all those horses who knew nothing but racing would get slaughtered as a result because they know nothing else and because the owners wouldn't know what to do with them, wouldn't be able to afford to keep them any longer. i personally didn't agree with jumps racing but i would of preferred to phase it out so that those horses could live out the rest of their lives, and no new ones were brought in. But did PETA think about the after effect of those horses still racing once they immediatly banned it? this is just one of many examples that have developed my opinion on PETA.
Do you have any evidence of PETA's alledged policy on Jumps Racing in Australia?
I don't diagree with a call to immediately ban the sport - as the Coaltion for the Protection of Race Horses has been call for. I'm just interested to see PETA's view on the issue, as I'm unable to find it. Thanks.
