Old blog from my last myspace page about PETA and why they suck. It's taken from their website with my little add ons in [here] before they were red to make them easier to see but I'm far too lazy to go through all that again.


In his book Animal Liberation, Peter Singer states that the basic principle of equality does not require equal or identical treatment; it requires equal consideration. [ok we considered it and we came to the conclusion that we need to worry more of our own species survival, besides it doesn't seem like there is any shotage of cows or pigs out there] This is an important distinction when talking about animal rights. People often ask if animals should have rights, and quite simply, the answer is "Yes!"{I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of "with rights come responsibility" So if you can show me that these animals will obey all the laws that we expect humans to obey and they contribute to society as a whole then I say they deserve rights, until then NO THEY DON'T] Animals surely deserve to live their lives free from suffering and exploitation{It's a nice thought but hell most humans don't even get this right]. Jeremy Bentham, the founder of the reforming utilitarian school of moral philosophy, stated that when deciding on a being's rights, "The question is not 'Can they reason?' nor 'Can they talk?' but 'Can they suffer?'" In that passage, Bentham points to the capacity for suffering as the vital characteristic that gives a being the right to equal consideration. The capacity for suffering is not just another characteristic like the capacity for language or higher mathematics. All animals have the ability to suffer in the same way and to the same degree that humans do. They feel pain, pleasure, fear, frustration, loneliness, and motherly love. Whenever we consider doing something that would interfere with their needs, we are morally obligated to take them into account.{Again humans don't even get that good of treatment and consideration]

Supporters of animal rights believe that animals have an inherent worth—a value completely separate from their usefulness to humans.{You're right they do have value, and we allow them to contribute in other ways besides just eating them] We believe that every creature with a will to live has a right to live free from pain and suffering.{Again even humans don't live free from pain and suffering, pain and suffering afre a part of life that all creatuures and all species must endure] Animal rights is not just a philosophy—it is a social movement that challenges society's traditional view that all nonhuman animals exist solely for human use.[Whatever happened to freedom? so you say animals are to be free but humans don't get the freedom to choose whether or not we eat theanimals] As PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has said, "When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Each one values his or her life and fights the knife."[ but in the end we all succom to the blade]

Only prejudice allows us to deny others the rights that we expect to have for ourselves.[ As stated above I dont expect these right ofmyself or any other human beig for that matter, and hell I wouldn't want them, what is life without pain and suffering... pain allows you to feel alive, and can you really realise the true pleasure of happiness if you did not know sorrow?] Whether it's based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or species, prejudice is morally unacceptable.[true, but if you look at the agruements your the ones being predjudice... predjudiceto your own race as well as the animals you're supposedly fuighting for. You don't allow your own species the rigght to freedom of choice and you atoumatically assume your somehow higther than than animals and that it's your duty to aid these lesser beings. You should be ashamed of yourself.] If you wouldn't eat a dog, why eat a pig?[ I wouldn't mind trying some dog meat, problem is I can't find it in stores and I'm sure you people would make a buig issue of me killing a dog to enjoy it as a fine meal] Dogs and pigs have the same capacity to feel pain, but it is prejudice based on species that allows us to think of one animal as a companion and the other as dinner.[ your words, not mine... so who's the prejudice one???]