Peta's Thoughts On Reptiles

[SDG]

My point was that the secondary effects of limiting or eliminating factory farming (part of PETA's agenda) will assist conservation on many levels, in turn helping the herps we love. While I'm not defending all of PETA's actions, at the same time they are a group dedicated to aiding animals, period, a selfless cause in my opinion. Reptiles are animals, and thus they seek to protect them. They do need a reptile advisor on board though, to ensure the correct message is put out. I don't see them as terrorists, however I do see them as borderline sexist and often without tact in their campaigns.

[ravensgait]

SDG If you own a reptile or any other pet PETA doesn't want you they really frown on that kind of thing. Might want to find out more about this Terrorist group(In my book when you give money to Organizations that are on the FBI's terrorist list that makes you one)

The Truth and PETA neither has anything to do with the other. Randy

[Samba]

Well, I haven't read the replies because this thread is so long (and my time is limited) but most of what I read seemed correct. There are a few items I'd disagree with, but for the most part I don't take issue with what was posted. I have never been a fan of PETAs extreme political views and their notorious protests, but really, I believe most, not all, of the information they provided is realistic...

[lostwithin]

Personal opinions on PETA aside, that information is fairly accurate it has a few minor flaws but nothing worse then what you see in any reptile information. They specifically said the "pet store trade" and in my opinion the pet store trade and the way they treat and deal with reptiles is disgusting. and everyone’s run into someone who picked up a reptile probably a sick import from a pet store, knowing nothing except that it looks cool. And then the poor thing suffers for years with improper care because its "just a snake" not a cat or dog that needs any care. In a forum like this most people are beyond that. but for the average Joe blow who knows only what he was told at the petshop allot of that is true.

Devon

[nita]

I love the freezer full of dead animals bit, my kids ask what kind of meat we are having for dinner, cow body, pig body or chicken body. LOL, I know I'm inhumane.

[-okapi-]

Quote by: rrrrr

Don't be so quick to bash people who are bashing people who bash us reptile owners.

Thats awsome! PETA is crazy, thats why I made a thread about them in the joke forum.

[Paul_Begg]

All in all it's a tricky subject to tackle at the best of times, but when these animal lovers hand out posters to young children of human food being slaughtered for the food chain and telling them that their mum and dad have killed them, then thats's out of order.
In response to an earlier post about the 'babe' effort they (wildlife organisations!) do love it, a friend of my wifes was a member of peta and actually ran with the bulls in spain, but totally starkers, a huge publicity stunt, but seeing as she was hot, how many people would have been drawn to that stunt. In the PETA website she was disgribed as a "leggy blond" I bet that if it had been a real minger that had done it it would never have made any news at all, but throw a sexy (in media terms) into the mix and now we have this poor damsel seeking help for her mammilian friends.
I do believe that there are way too many animals being imported from the wild for the pet industry, but there is no need to go overboard.
Cheers
Paul

[Phil Beaudoin]

Hey, you know reptiles!? THEY ARE NOT PEOPLE. There are ecosystems and balance is achieved within ecosystems as species unconciously change their habits and physiques in face of pressures, you know, evolution. When animals are taken from an ecosystem and put into a foreign ecosystem, like a texas library or an aquarium, they are not in their natural ecosystems. There are so many pathetic people that like to justify their keeping of reptiles by saying they are better off in captivity. Someone even said somthing along the lines that a reptile's feelings are hurt when that have to step out of unsafe territory.... THEY are not people. if a male snake cannot breed with a female snake, he doesn't punch a wall and say to his friends "man, i just don't get chicks" I keep snakes, and I know that it is a contradiction for me to keep them privately and not go around educating people, while advocating environemental preservation, but I don't justify that with "I am the creator of all beings, when I made snakes I made the mistake a putting them in nature and not an aquarium"

I appologize, I was going to be clever by making SSNAKESS into an accronym for somthing that bashes the slow minded reptile breeders that know everything about the world, tatoos, hard rock, motor cycles, and the snake that can kill the most people in the universe, but, I would rather make a bunch of slogans that maybe we can consider:

"I just want to play with snakes"

"A snake's toung is not for smelling! I have seen people stick their toungs out in disgust before, so, it must be disgusted with what is on TV, I shall change the channel"

"Uh oh, those ideas will surely shatter the foudation of my monotonous existence. I need another beer... or maybe just a sweet new ball python morph!"

"Snakes are cool"

"Gravity!? Burn him!"

No, those slogans suck. I think we should all get rich by selling furniture that cators to reptiles, like really skinny couches for snakes to lay on.


Does this sound stupid!? Why is nobody posting a good article with details about the incidents that made PETA suck!? Not the isolated ones with terrorist qualities, cause I will just say that there are peta members that just read books and cry about how you are so tough, lets not generalize. Please post detailed evidcence that PETA is a contradiction. I don't need to hear about how they wanna take the snakes away, they are not going to take our snakes away. I am fed-up with how everyone is jumping on the "Let's stop people with voices by using lame jokes that show how out of touch we are"

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Go play with your snakes if PETA has legitimately got you down