I can’t say that I fully do or do not support PETA. They have SOME good causes, but some are rediculous. I don’t agree with animals being tested for human cures. Our biology isn’t exactly the same, so how could an animal provide the answers for how the human body will or will not react?! I also do not feel that it’s WRONG to hunt, but I do believe that if one is going to hunt, they should be eating whatever they are hunting. No one should hunt just for fun, or even for profit. Man was indeed hunter/gatherers back in the day. They were the ones who had to provide for the family. The women were nurturers – caring for the children and the home. But times have changed. My dad was a big hunter for as far back as I can remember. Not so much anymore, as he’s getting older, but I really enjoy eating venicin. I enjoy porkchops, quail and hamburgers along with many other varieties of meat. Be it hunting in a forest or fishing in the ocean, hunting for food is the same across the board. It’s a natural way of life. Let’s all reflect on the Food Chain here. But let’s be honest… there is a vast difference between hunting and eating your kill, than being cruel to animals just because you can. No one should torture any animal. If you shoot an animal and it didn’t die the first time, finish it off… there’s NO NEED to make it suffer. There’s nothing cute in that and if someone gets their kicks from watching an animal suffer, they are sick individuals and have NO HEART OR SOUL worth anything. God created all things and he created a pecking order for us all to survive and follow. It’s the people who are greedy that go off killing animals for their furs, tusks, etc. just to make a buck. It’s greedy people that promote dog and rooster fighting. It’s those greedy people that need to be treated in the same manner they are treating animals. I wonder how they might feel about it then?!?! Like I said – PETA has some wonderful causes, but they don’t need to generalize everyone into the same category just because some of us don’t agree with EVERYTHING they want to preach about.

I think it’s a great organization to support, along with the ASPCA and Humane Society. Animals have just as much right to live on this earth as humans, if not more so, because many humans are cruel. Animals are innocent, only acting on natural instincts needed to defend themselves and feed themselves. Nature in the wild is sad in that way, but I also believe humans are meant to eat animals. I tried being a vegetarian for 6 months, being creative and food combining to obtain all the essential aminos… but then I craved and ate meat again, and my immune system went up and I was much stronger again. I’m THE biggest animal lover, in fact I LIVE for animals, but unfortunately I believe, as some animals in the wild eat each other, us humans need some meat to survive also. But that’s just my opinion, and I respect others beliefs. If I could, I would be a vegetarian, but my body just won’t allow it. …I’m just waiting for the laws to be mandatory to use painless and humane ways of "slaughtering", because it really pains me. And even hunting for food and to prevent overpopulation, it should be done with tranquilizer guns, or other forms of painless methods. Of course the ultimate would be never to do either of these things, but I understand it is necessary. I do want to enforce stricter laws when purchasing pets, because it is too easy to buy pets, and the owners aren’t told how to care for them properly, and the animals are the ones who suffer. And, it should be the law to register every pet with its owner, with an ongoing tri-monthly check up on the pet and its owner, just to keep abuse and neglect under check. Neighbors need to make themselves aware of how their neighbors are handling their pets, and inform the ASPCA if there is abuse, because we need to be their voices.

Alexa Lyn, who are you referring to with your last post?

Dream Hunter, you obviously boast your name, and you don’t fool me when you say you do pet rescues; your way of a pet rescue is shooting them to put them out of their misery. Any other person would have drove the 20 minutes to the vets office in hopes they could save the animal, and give it a second chance to life. Even if money was an issue, I’m sure the vet would help it. You sound very gun happy to me, maybe even a little bit obsessed about death- what are you doing watching PETA videos, and browzing animal sites? How did you find this site? This site is about pets, and all your picture shows are your two hunting dogs. Maybe your whole life growing up was hunting, but maybe you need to expand your mind a little, just reverse the situation. If you were hit by a car, would you want someone to drive you to the hospital or them to shoot you in the head?

animals rule-
You’re totally right about dreamhunter, where is he where he comes across all these animals that are in pain, and he’s carrying a gun on him at all times? His putting animals out of misery stories probably stemmed from him shooting animals that didn’t kill them right away, then he shot it so it didn’t suffer. When you are a hunter, you automatically are desensitized from killing, as they can kill, clean it, prepare it and eat it. My dad used to hunt, but now he has no interest, he lost all interest in taking lives away.

I hope people reading this, as well as "DreamHunter" learn from Crimson Moon’s comment, as he sums it up nicely. Being extreme on this topic is even too extreme for me, but sometimes it takes that to get your point across to one, and make them think.

Don’t be fooled. PETA is no animal lover. It’s a control issue. Like any extremist organization that needs to be carefully researched and monitored, PETA is an organization created by fascists. Their core belief is that an elitist , fascist government should control all aspects of life and death for both humans and animals. They believe that common people should not be allowed to have access to animals (without sanction by the government) and that the government should decide which animals to protect, to run wild and to exterminate.
One of my college classmates bragged that she is a PETA member and how she was doing the world good by going into retail grocery stores and slashing open meat packages when no one was watching. As the semester progressed, she revealed a very troubled childhood and it seemed that PETA served her psychological need to express her rage. All you have to do is research the Nazis’ treatment of animals during World War II. Some animals of the same breed but under the control of different Nazi officers were given lavish care, like pampered pets, others were allowed to run wild and die of whatever befell them, and others were rounded up and exterminated. To find out what it was really like, read THE ZOOKEEPERS WIFE. After all, it was the Nazi government that decided which living beings were allowed to live or die. There was no compassion involved in the decisions. It was based on the whims of the powerful.
No organization that is truly founded for the well being of animals is going to condone harm to animals or humans. Not all people’s bodies can tolerate a vegetarian/bean diet. Some of those people would actually suffer grave medical illnesses if forced to do so. I for one, personally do not like the idea sacrificing an living breathing animal that has feelings so I can eat it but my body has violent reactions to a pure vegetable/bean diet so out of necessity I eat a small amount of chicken or fish. To force such people to be vegetarian at the expense of their health and life is hypocritical. It actually reveals that is not about animals at all but rather about an agenda of control.