PETA and Me
I'm sorry if you don't agree with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but I love them and want to join them once I'm older. I'm already technically a member since I donated money to them, but later in my life I want to do petitions, protests, speeches, ect. Right now I'm a vegetarian with four dogs, two rats, and three birdfeeders outside my window alone. I feel very strongly about animal rights and wish they were treated better, not just as something people think you can wear and eat and abuse. I want them to be treated almost as equals to us. The only problem is that my parents are....well...okay I'll just say some examples. My dad if I say the word "PETA" he interrupts and says "Oh you mean the People for Eating Tasty Animals, right?" Knowing of course that I hate that. My mom refuses to make special food or support me in my beliefs. I usually cook every meal for myself, and since it's different from eveyone else's, I usually have to wait for the stove or whatever to ccok so I eat later than everyone else and end either waiting for them and my food getting cold or eating later than them so I can't really be a part of the family time. My siblings are constantly giving me shit about it and teasing. My sister keeps saying that people in PETA all go to Hell. My brother is keeps trying to force me to eat meat or saying that he slipped meat into my food. Not one of my friends thinks I'll last as a vegetarian and it's been six months. One says that I'll cave really soon, abother says that my brain will shrink from the lack of protein, and every single one of them, if they're talking about meat they look at me and just say sorry and awkwardly change the subject. I hate every second that I have at home or with them, as much as I love them, because if I say anything about my beliefs or whatever they critisize them! I didn't quite choose this lifestyle, I just know this is what I'm supposed to do with my life. I can't change who I am, and I don't want to! I'm sorry if I'm ranting or anything I'm just so sick of life and I needed to tell/write it down somewhere. This is one of the two places I can actually write without being afraid of someone I know really well finding out about how much pain I'm actually in.
Posted on June 4th, 2009 at 04:42am
Join Join Join! i'm a member :] and don't let people give you sh*t, people did the same to me. Keep it up, ive been a veggie head for 6 years now
Monroe Lane, June 9th, 2009 at 04:10:51am
yeah in 2005 they adopted out 1% of the animals that came into their shelter.
The most were put down.
And their protests are violent and they look bad and usually do nothing to help the cause.
Perfectly Imperfect, June 4th, 2009 at 06:05:23am
Dancing Caveman took the words right out of my mouth. I'm vegetarian & I love animals but PETA annoys me.
plastic Jesus, June 4th, 2009 at 05:19:52am
I'm all for animal rights, but PETA is nothing but a bunch of radicals. They kill more animals than they save.
Oh, and as for the pets you have- PETA would say you're a horrible person because all animals need to be free; not confined as some prisoner of a person.
Oh, and your vegetarian lifestyle, according to PETA, doesn't cut it. You must go Vegan if you want to make a difference. One person for PETA once said that vegetarians are just "half-assing" it and don't "really care" about animals.
Animal rights are great, but PETA is not an organization I'd get involved with.
Dancing Caveman, June 4th, 2009 at 05:04:48am
PETA has the right attitude, but I hate how they take everything too far, they don't give themselves a good rep and act as though they're superior or something. They abuse other humans, which I think is even more wrong than abusing animals.
I am against animal cruelty, but I'm not against eating animals. Our family in general tries to buy free range meat and eggs etc, because those animals are living in better conditions.
I like what PETA are about, but I don't at all support the way they do anything.
Your.Pink.Diary, June 4th, 2009 at 05:02:50am
PETA has a good goal, but carries it out the wrong way. I understand you are trying to be a vegetarian and it must be hard to have no one support you. . There have been cases where they have terrorized people.
Granted, those have just been some individuals...but let's just say they aren't my favorite group due to their "tactics." There is a fine line between protesting and harassing and PETA has crossed it quite a few times.
The-Pen-in-the-Sword, June 4th, 2009 at 04:57:51am
I love PETA:)
i wanna join them, too!!
notdeadyetx, June 4th, 2009 at 04:54:07am
I hate PETA.
I like that they want animals to be treated better. I just hate how obnoxious they are about it. They go about it all the wrong way. PETA is so annoying.
George Ryan Ross., June 4th, 2009 at 04:48:41am