TheProwler wrote:PETA is against unnecessarily cruel treatment of animals. So am I.
PETA goes well beyond unnecessarily cruel treatment... and what they consider cruel is often not what either the animals themselves would choose or what people caring for animals generally consider decent treatment. In fact, some of what they advocate is actually cruel to some animals. For example, they are opposed to electrocution for small animals, though it is actually the most humane method for some animals (depends upon their nervous systems).
They consider things that we would allow for human beings ... testing of certain things to benefit the animal, for example. Everything is lumped into "animal testing" regardless of why or how the research is conducted.
TheProwler wrote:PETA thinks animals have some worth. So do I.
PETA considers animals equal to human beings in worth, with few exceptions. Sometimes animals are to have more rights, because we are responsible for them. Check out Bill Devall and Deep Ecology for a hint.
TheProwler wrote:So time for you to answer a few simple, straight-forward questions:
Do you support unnecessarily cruel treatment of animals?
Do you think animals are worthless?
Do you think that most dogs should have 4 legs?
Now you mirror PETA precisely ... in their view, either you accept their very extreme positions or you are an animal abuser.
and you didn't just say you agree with a few of their positions... you said you agree with a lot of what thier positions. Which means either you don't really get their positions or you don't really know that much about animals.