I’ve been thinking about this question since both communists and vegans are well known for being demonized by capitalist countries, and so I thought “maybe PETA might also be demonized since it’s an animal rights organization”. Of course, all I know about PETA is that they make parody games, and that everyone seems to dislike them, so feel free to prove that I am in fact stupid.
PETA is to animal liberation what Anarchism is to proletarian liberation: passionate & well-intentioned but ultimately insufficient & misdirected.
Of course Anarchists don’t kidnap people’s pets out of their backyards to euthanize them, mass murder animals while calling it an action of ‘mercy’, lying about practices like sheep shearing and claiming they’re harmful when they’re not, trying to guilt-trip people out of eating meat by comparing meat eating to cannibalism, or having ties to the CIA as most US-based NGOs do.
Among many other things.
PETA as an idea is cool but the org in practice is hypocritical, moralistic, and it making a sudden branch out into terrorism wouldn’t be all that far-fetched in the near future. Like with most things if we want to improve the lives & living conditions of animals we need theory & practice - not adventurism & shame campaigns.