• lugal
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    11 months ago

    I’m vegan for a decade now and for a while I felt like I have to support peta because they fight for the right cause. But seeing all the shit they publish, I’m not that sure anymore

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      I guess PETA are useful for making regular vegans seem extremely tolerant and reasonable.

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      11 months ago

      Do you have examples? I’ve been under the impression that they’re the good guys in most cases

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        You can just look at this post and see how they try to scare people into not drinking cows milk through fear of autism, which is some ablest bullshit. This is literally no better than anti-vax rhetoric.

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          I mean, not trying to defend this as this is pretty bad, but I guess it gets people talking and thinking about their consumption of animal products?

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            No, it doesn’t. It makes people discount anything you say because all you’re trying to do is draw attention to yourself. You end up being ignored and nobody cares about your message since the things you say are terrible.

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            Autism is not a bad thing, but they are acting as if it is.

            How would you feel if the campaign said: “Drinking milk makes your child gay?”

            Would it still be okay because it gets people thinking about their consumption of animal products?

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        11 months ago

        I remember a cat adaptation campaign with the slogan “Grab them by the pussy” right after Trump said it (or when it came out) which is tasteless at best

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          It is pretty tasteless, I’ll give you that. But it’s meant to be provocative, I think, and shocking, so the slogan did accomplish its goal.

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            Yes, they accomplish their goals, but (to come back to my first comment) is it really the right cause or does it alienate people?

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              Do they accomplish their goals? How many people can you point to who have said that they became a vegan because of PETA?

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                That’s my point. Their goal is provocation, the right cause would be to convince people which they don’t do