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I read a very interesting article today, something that voiced what I had been feeling about PETA for a while. I'll quote some of the most interesting passages. Thoughts?
jezebel.com/5453982/ingrid-newkirk-is-the-worst-person-in-the-world
"Find an actress, preferably one upon whom fame once landed a glancing blow. Get her naked. Airbrush thoroughly. Slap her on a billboard. The actresses get to be seen publicizing a "cause"; more importantly, they look conventionally "hot" doing so (and perhaps the billboard, or the press release, or the media coverage of the billboard and the press release, will remind some producer somewhere of the actress's existence?). Most conveniently of all, the ideological commitment PETA asks of its "faces" is nothing so onerous as to prevent anyone from going about West Hollywood with her Birkin and her Uggs as per usual the next weekend. (Pamela Anderson once claimed that she kept wearing sheepskin boots, despite her long association with PETA, because she didn't realize harvesting sheepskin involved killing sheep.)"
"PETA's hostility towards women doesn't stop with the highly sexualized portrayals of its spokesmodels, either. The organization frequently holds demonstrations where naked women are put in cages, supposedly to represent the cruelty of factory farming and/or medical research. We get it: sow crates and battery hen cages are disgusting. But so is stripping a woman naked and likening her to an animal."
"And there's the acute hypocrisy of its actual mission. While it claims to fight against all animal suffering, PETA has several times been caught euthanizing animals that would otherwise have been eligible for adoption. In 2005, a rash of unexplained dumpings of dog and cat carcasses around Virginia and North Carolina — PETA is headquartered in Norfolk — found its apparent explanation when two PETA employees were arrested while attempting to throw out 18 animals they'd killed after picking them up from a shelter on the promise of finding them homes. "
"Last year, to protest the Westminster Dog Show, of all things, PETA operatives dressed up as members of the Ku Kux Klan."
Finally, PETA's response. "As for the sexy women in our ads, the silly costumes, the street tableaux and the tofu sandwich give-aways, in a world where people want to smile, can't resist looking at an attractive image and are up for a free meal, if such harmless antics will allow one individual to reconsider their own role in exploiting animals, how can it be faulted?"
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