PETA Keeps Pulling Out the Stops

Real horror (not the hollywood kind) and viral marketing gets the word out.

By: KuhaneGuy | Dec 18, 2007 |  3

Categories: Animal Rights, Artevist

Yesterday, a friend emailed me a link to a PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) video that has been making its way around the world via emails, blogs and now Artevist.

It's of an undercover investigation into Chinese fur farming. The video is extremely hard to watch and I could only take a couple minutes of it, but it does what was intended.

The effect was so great that it led me to PETATV.com, PETA's online collection of videos and related information, where I watched several more. PETA has really done a great job, and I think the secret is that it's not all doom and gloom. There are many videos of PETA's successful campaigns, lifestyle tips and humour.

For a bit of a laugh, check out the Trollsen twins, their well designed online campaign against the fur-wearing Olsens.

Another video I'd recommend is Meet Your Meat, narrated by actor Alec Baldwin. Though I've never been a big meat eater, watching this video has put me on the road to vegetarianism.

PETA also have a couple of great T-shirt designs in their store. These are some of my favourites, though as a Canadian, I wish the last one weren't true.

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Well PETA always been known for its very graphic videos. This one though really is repulsive. I also couldn’t watch it to the end.

I knew a guy who worked at a fur farm in North Carolina. Let me say I don’t think it’s just China. Maybe not as public because Americans would never stand for it, but what he said happens behind the closed barn doors is pretty sad.

By: Garrrr
posted: December 19, 2007 at 07:33 PM

Alot of followers of PETA dont truely undersatnd what PETA even does. They use pure human emotion to brain wash uneducated people. Now yes, I agree with them on the fur issue. I dont wear fur, but that is the ONLY area I agree with them on. They actually take in animals and say they adopt them out to good homes right? WRONG!!!!! They have killed over 1,400 animals with their wonderful overdoses of ketamine and other drugs and say they were better off dead. Also, they use the millions of dollars from mindless followers and what was there big purchase this year??? A $9,000 freezer to put the bodies of all the animals they killed. Glad to know your money is being put to helping animals right?? Also, Ingrid Newkirk is such a frickin flip flopper. She says she will not use anything that is tested or created from animals right?? Well, just a little bit ago, she hurt her wrist and was sent to the hospital. She was on an IV morphine drip. She was even recorded saying “Thank God for that IV!!” Ha, another thing, she is INSULIN DEPENDANT!!!! You know, the insulin she is injecting to stay alive was created from pigs… O, but it is ok for her to use it and not the millions of brain washed followers right??

All I am asking is please do a little research when anyone decides to listen to any animal right activists. They normally only give you half of the story.

By: vixen_with_velocity
posted: December 22, 2007 at 06:40 PM

To Vixen’s comments…

I try not to listen too much to criticisms of organizations working in the activist arena. All organizations (animal rights or otherwise) are made up of humans with priorities, agendas and rent payments due. There isn’t one that someone hasn’t attacked in some way or another. Sometimes it’s justified, sometimes not, it’s often just a matter of opinion.

With respect to PETA, I think what they’ve done overall is fantastic… which is basically to make animal rights even an issue that people are taking note of.

Whatever your individual position on animal rights, there is no escaping the fact that raising and killing animals for human consumption, is not a efficient use of the world’s resources and is unsutainable in the long run. Unless of course you don’t mind eating meat that was basically produced in a factory, but that’s purely a personal decision. I’ll stick to my veggies.

By: KuhaneGuy
posted: January 03, 2008 at 05:08 PM