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(#8) They Have Repeatedly Objectified Women To Get Attention
PETA has routinely objectified women to protest the objectification of animals. Throughout their existence, PETA has created ads and demonstrations that use naked, abused, or sexually objectified women. They've shown women in chains and have even parodied public service announcements about abuse to make statements about how animals are mistreated. PETA also uses the nudity of celebrities - like Alicia Silverstone - to get attention. They've even resorted to fat- and body-shaming women to try to get them to go vegan.
Some of PETA's ads have verged on the pornograpic. Their 2016 Super Bowl ad - which was banned - depicted couples having sex to claim vegans were better lovers. The tag line was: "Last Longer. Go Vegan."
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(#16) They Encouraged People To Give Their Pets Vegan Diets
Consistent with their ideology, PETA is against the use of animal-based pet food, and instead encourages pet owners to make their canine and feline companions go vegan as well.
Whether dogs can live by vegan diets has been hotly debated, but the science is clear about cats: according to experts, cats absolutely cannot go vegan. They warn that a vegetarian diet is extremely harmful for a cat, since cats need meat-based amino acids like taurine in order to live.
While PETA has claimed that dietary supplements will work fine, veterinarians have warned that vegan diets for cats, and sometimes for certain dogs, may cause them to get sick, and can lead to serious health problems.
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(#12) They Piggybacked Off Articles About Jeffrey Dahmer To Spread Their Message
After Jeffrey Dahmer - the Milwaukee-based serial killer who murdered, mutilated, and cannibalized his victims - was arrested in 1991, the public was distressed to hear details of his crimes. PETA used the news for their own publicity. The organization produced a newspaper ad that described what sounded like a grisly, Dahmer-esque murder, but turned out to be the slaughter of animals:
Milwaukee. . . July 1991. They were drugged and dragged across the room . . . Their legs and feet were bound together. . . Their struggles and cries went unanswered. . . Then they were slaughtered and their heads sawn off. . . Their body parts were refrigerated to be eaten later. . . It's still going on. If this leaves a bad taste in your mouth, become a vegetarian.
Workers in the meat industry condemned the ad, since PETA compared them to Jeffrey Dahmer. Repulsed by PETA's attempt to capitalize on Dahmer's crimes, some papers refused to run the ad.
In 2014, PETA announced its intention to buy and turn Dahmer's house into a vegan restaurant. The organization did not follow through with the proposal, however, due to zoning issues.
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(#15) Some Activists Gave Books To Children Saying That Their Parents Were Killers
PETA encouraged their members to stand outside of performances of The Nutcracker to protest fur products.
The organization has even made an effort to engage children. Some PETA activists planned to attend The Nutcracker ballet, identify the children of fur-wearing mothers, and hand them a comic pamphlet titled Your Mommy Kills Animals. PETA also made a pamphlet about fathers that focused on the evils of fishing, which activists distributed at fishing competitions and stores selling bait and tackle.
These books contain graphic, potentially traumatic imagery - explaining how the animals are killed to make clothes or dinner - and encourage children to implicate their parents in violence against animals. To quote from the actual pro-fish pamphlet:
Imagine that a man dangles a piece of candy in front of you. As you grab the candy, a huge metal hook stabs through your hand and you’re ripped off the ground. You fight to get away, but it doesn't do any good. That would be an awful trick to play on someone, wouldn't it?
Later, the book directed at the mothers was actually made into a movie funded by PETA.
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(#7) They Made An Anti-Pokémon Game
As part of its crusade against dog fighting - which is illegal in the United States and widely condemned as "grisly" and "inhumane" - PETA has also criticized what it considers to be a digital dog fighting game: Pokémon. PETA claims the game primes people to mistreat animals.
So PETA launched its own game to counter Pokémon. In 2012, PETA came out with Pokémon Black and Blue. In this game, players become Pokémon who have thrown off their shackles and are now rising up against their former owners. The game is meant to show how Pokémon normalizes the subjugation of animals, and is therefore a bad influence.
Pokémon Black and Blue isn't PETA's first foray into the gaming world - the organization has produced other parody games as well.
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(#2) They Harassed And Intimidated A Scientist Trying To Save Birds
In 2017, Louisiana State University ornithologist Dr. Christine Lattin began receiving hate mail and threats. According to Lattin, she was receiving 40 to 50 messages a day. “You should kill yourself, you sick b*tch,” one message read. “I hope someone throws you into the fire…” said another. She discovered the animal rights organization began a campaign against her. Under the headline “Tell Yale University Stop Tormenting Birds!” PETA posted about her research on their website claiming she was committing animal abuse through wasteful and pointless experiments.
At the time the controversy began, Lattin was working for Yale University, studying the effects of climate change and environmental disasters on birds. Her work began at Tufts University in Medford, MA during her Ph.D. research, where she was investigating how birds responded to manmade disasters like oil spills and human encroachment by measuring changes in their stress hormones with the hopes that her research could aid in conservation efforts.
When she began at Yale as a postdoc she also pioneered the use of medical imaging techniques to study hormonal and physiological changes in living birds. Though the research required she capture and ultimately euthanize wild house sparrows, the hope and goal of medical imaging was to minimize the amount of birds needed for the experiments, and alternatively release them back in the wild.
PETA, however, claimed her research had no relevance to conservation efforts. They filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, urged Yale and her funders to stop supporting her research, and organized protests against her outside Yale, her research building, and her home. Other publications and advocacy groups have evaluated the claims PETA has made and the validity of Dr. Lattin’s research, concluding firstly that PETA’s claims are based on misrepresentations of the research, but also Lattin’s research has had applicable benefits, direct conservation applications, was done according to humane practices.
Harassment, however, still continues, calling for “LSU to end her cruelty.”
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PETA is a radical organization founded by Ms. Ingrid Newkirk in 1980. Influenced by the consciousness of animal liberation in the late 1970s, she believed that animals should have equal rights to life with humans, so PETA became the defender of animal rights. PETA has developed rapidly over the past 30 years and has become the world's largest radical animal protection organization.
But as more ridiculous incidents happened, people figured out that this is a hypocritical organization. PETA is keen on all kinds of extreme performance art. What is even more incredible is that PETA once distributed a horror comic to kids who wearing fur products, which directly caused psychological harm to kids. The random tool collected 17 criticism for unethical behaviors of PETA.
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