Excellent analysis, great examples, and well-formulated objections to truly objectionable advertising and promotion tactics by PETA. I was unaware of most of them (blissfully, I might add), so, thanks for raising awareness that having a “good cause” but approaching it with malice, bias and arrogance kind of ruins the “goodness” of the cause.
If I had a nickel for every time I shook my fist and cursed to the heavens because PETA did something that made me angry, I’d have a lot of nickels.
Think Progress recently covered what they call a “new low” for PETA: teaming up with notorious Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to promote serving vegetarian meals in prison. The piece reminds us about just what kind of character PETA is heaping praise on:
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Sorry to subject you to all that nastiness! Thanks for sharing!
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It’s almost like they are deliberately self-sabotaging.
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I wish PETA’s intent were that intentional, although then I suppose their true funder would be the meat industry, then?
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