The world is just one tandoori soya chaap away from turning vegetarian forever. Remember that.
That was…well done.
A rare joke
PETA can only take the easy and lame options, which is why they went after my mom
I actually have reduced my beef consumption quite a bit. More for my personal health reasons than any other reason though.
Cow hugging therapy exists actually.
what about cow milking therapy, or bull milking?
Buddy get yourself a partner!
Fun fact, PETA kills upwards of 90% of the animals they claim to rescue.
Their director makes $147k salary, Sr VP makes $142k, VP makes $126k, and the VP makes $36,999.
That is notably a lot less than, for example, ASPCA’s executives who make hundreds of thousands up to $1,203,267 made by Matt Berdshadker in 2023, but on the other hand ASPCA has strict rules against Euthanasia except for circumstances that make the animal aggressive, suffering, of completely unadoptable.
The ASPCA typically has a lower euthanasia rate than PETA because it often employs more selective admission policies, focusing on adopting out animals rather than accepting all animals regardless of their condition. In contrast, PETA operates as an open-admission shelter, which means it takes in all animals, leading to higher euthanasia rates due to the number of unadoptable or severely ill animals it receives.
Doesn’t the aspca also spend more on advertising than helping animals? I remember them also having a suspicously high CEO pay.
They both are helpful just in different ways. Ideally wed have the ASPCA and Peta working together for a better outcome, but unfortunately thats not usually the case.
You should remember, it is outlined two comments up this chain.
“Focusing on adopting out animals” which results in >90% fatality? I would laugh but that’s just not funny. The reason PETAs kill count is so high is because they fundamentally don’t believe in livestock or owning pets, they see killing dogs, cats, and horses as a mercy.
You should re-read my post because you are attacking a point I didnt make.
You likely fell victim to propaganda from the animal imdustry:
Whether or not there is a front group named such doesn’t argue the fact at all.
Thats like claiming animal rights activists are propoganda because theres a group named “swine are tortured”.
Ok. You didn’t read the article, did you?
I clicked your link, despite never having heard of sourcewatch, and it says there exists a propaganda group, which I have never heard of, sharing the same factual information as I have here.
I’m a wholehearted supporter of animal welfare, but I disagree with the fundamentals of PETA murdering every pet they get their hands on.
factual information
PETA murdering every pet they get their hands on.
🤡🤡🤡
Hitting a disingenuous reply guy with a lazy zinger: Based
Hitting a disingenuous reply guy with a lazy zinger when you’re an animal rights org: Cringe, loathsome, objectionableI stopped eating almost any beef after discovering the cute cow gifs subreddit. They can be so puppy like! They’re also huge methane machines and having fewer cows would be good for the environment.
On the other hand, I crave a good pot roast maybe once a year.
Edit: and I can name my mother’s favorite childhood cow and the cow my grandpa let me name because we shared a birthday.
I unfortunately like beef too much. But I know the impact the meat industry has and try to reduce my intake. I was down to two meals with meat a month before I got a job that wouldn’t let me be picky.
Maybe we should have a specific holiday like Thanksgiving but for cows. I vote for St Patrick’s Day. Beyond meat and black beans are cool and good but you can pry corned beef out of my cold dead fingers.
We should eat snakes on St. Patricks.
I have a soft spot for cabbage food, so I’d happily celebrate St Patrick’s with some corned beef cabbage rolls/gołąbki.
Cows when young are absolutely puppy like. We had a pet calf when I was a kid named Softy. My stepmom insisted we buy him and bring him home when we visited a rural county fair because he was so cute. He ended up thinking that he was one of our dogs for a while, even played fetch (poorly heh). Once he got big (and admittedly mean as hell), someone ended up stealing him from his pasture while we were away for the day. Poor Softy.
Seems to be a false dilemma. They ignore the idea that you can eat your friends.
“I want to cook with you”
“No, I meant as an ingredient. Sorry, English isn’t my first language”
They say my hunger’s a problem
They tell me to curb my apetite
“you look ravishing”
“why thank you”
“no i want to cook you and eat you. baste yourself with this for the next 30 minutes while i get the oven right”
“Why does your shampoo feel so greasy and… salty? Is that fresh rosemary, oregano, thyme?”
“Yeah it’s my chef’s conditioner, just leave it on it’ll do you real good”
This might make your friends feel uncomfortable.
May I introduce you to Rotenburg Cannibal?
Not for long.
Some of my friends enjoy it
TBF most animals are much nicer than humans.
Hello Clarisse…
Humans are literally animals. Most are nothing more than that.
You and me, baby, we ain’t nothing but mammals…
What are the ones who are something more than that? What are they?
People.
Yes, when you’re an owl the mice seem nice.
Most animals are insects =)
(About 10 quintillion, apparently: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/buginfo/bugnos )
Gentle reminder that the intellectual distance between an average human and a cow is smaller than it is between the average human and anyone who isn’t a total fucking idiot.
Nonsense. There’s incontrovertible evidence that 2.4 million years ago, the non-human creatures on our family tree were already smarter than any non-human animal roaming the earth today.
The stupidest aspect of what I just wrote is that it is true.
Wow, a lot of peta hate today on lemmy. I take it they said something that hurt, or are we just putting the left in its place again?
Because PETA is a bastard of an organization.
PETA is to leftism what JK Rowling is to feminism.
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I thought she was calling herself Robert Galbraith these days. Which is a man’s name.
Yeah, that’ll show her…
They picked a fight with Umamusume (tw: a bit gory).
Even if I were vegan, I wouldn’t want to be associated with PETA.
The race-horse-girl game is not realistic about animal cruelty in real horse racing.
You think this is an attack on the race-horse-girl game?
The devs should add a human-inspired character to the game, give it a shirt vaguely resembling the PETA lego, and make it have the worst stats out of all the characters
If there’s ever an opportunity for someone to copy Edmund McMillen with how he made fun of PETA with their Tofu Boy parody, it would be this.
Only if you have to put down the PETA person whenever they lose a race or mildly injure themselves
They’ve always been a lightning rod for vegan hate. That’s kind of their thing.
PETA is basically just a concern trolling organization. Their version of animal welfare is to murder animals that come into their shelters.
Also, it’s hilarious to watch them defend themselves and try to attack a group of people that ACTUALLY CARES FOR ANIMALS instead of just playing at rule changes (and murdering animals out in their care).
PETA can get fucked with the business end of a rusty rake.
Slow down they already said there’s a lot of PETA hate on Lemmy today they didn’t ask anyone to prove it.
I don’t think this is real, mostly because I don’t think PETA has a sense of humor. I don’t think they’re capable of funny.
I would more expect PETA to unironically wag their finger at someone for calling a person a type of animal as an insult.
as they should
Yeah that’s real iguana behavior.
Besides taking themselves too seriously, they also give vegetarianism and the concept of animal welfare a bad name.
PETA euthanizes thousands of animals per year according to Google.
PETA euthanized 2,471 animals in 2023 and 2,213 in 2024 at its Virginia shelter, according to reports filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS).
PETA operates a kill shelter of last resort in Virginia, where they take in dogs who were next up to be euthanized at other kill shelters to make one more last ditch effort at addressing their issues and finding them homes. This is a service that would not exist if not for PETA, but since they’re a last resort their success numbers are very low, like less than 40%. That amounts to hundreds of animals saved every year, but that hasn’t stopped animal ag from taking the euthanasia totals out of context for years.
There’s just of information about the Norfolk shelter online for those willing to fact check.
