Thoughts on petakillsanimals.com
By Giania • Nov 30th, 2006 at 1:10 am • Category: Fnord| Hot: |  |  | | | |
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
I stumbled across this link earlier. Now, I’ve seen a few PETA-based propaganda booths in my day. Much like the “Truth” campaign, they’re big fans of large, symbolic, sometimes angry displays of protest against things they believe are wrong. While they might be passionate about what they do, and may be – in most cases – correct in their statements, I personally don’t react well to the types of conversion methods used.
PETA Kills Animals seemed sort of suspicious to me based on that. Any form of extreme activism is bound to engender some kind of extreme activism from the opposite camp, but I wasn’t one hundred percent sure who would want to be seen as being opposed to the ethical treatment of animals. So I did a little bit of Google news searching on one particular claim made over at PETA Kills Animals. PETA Animal-Cruelty Trial Date Finally Set I gotta say looking up anything with “peta” in the Google News section only turned up other organizations that PETA has attacked, rather than the law coming down on anyone who works for PETA.
A regular Google search did pull up a matching local news story, however. http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=93730&ran=57036
So that story is at least legit. Still, one has to wonder what is the agenda there? The About page at petakillsanimals.com marks them as being associated with the Center for Consumer Freedom. A quick search for these guys brings the following items up:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom
These guys say that the CCF is a sit and spin for all the things that organizations like PETA fight against. I’d be willing to believe that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom
Then there’s the wiki entry, which confirms sourcewatch’s assertion that this organization is paid to support the interests of a few very large industries which aren’t renown for their regard for health or moral practices.
I’ll also say that the couple reviews at Alexa aren’t very encouraging either. One response is a vauge “lol itz teh interestingz cause animul pplz gots teh sekrits!” and the other is a direct slam.
I’m all for public reminders that no organization is without it’s flaws, it helps prevent types prone to holier-than-thou behavior from appearing infallible. I’m all for the promotion of personal responsibility. I’m not real keen on someone trying to douse me in false activism, or in this case I guess you could say anti-activism. All in all? This was a pretty disappointing, but unsurprising, discovery.
What are your thoughts on activism? How far does a person or a group have to go before they are considered “extreme”? Are there any groups that personally get your goat that deserve exposing?
