It Is Him wrote:No. PETA champions for animal rights and fights against animal cruelty and exploitation. In theory: They're great. But the organization is run by people who swing to the far left (outside of the realms Democrat/Republican partisan politics) and have been accused of having ties to ecoterrorists.
The theoretical, looks-good-on-paper PETA I could stand. Perhaps lobbying to try and decrease cattle farming to a reasonable extent, which would have all kinds of benefits ecologists would agree with. (Decreased necessity to tear down forests, methane emissions drop from fewer cows, etc. Although meat prices would go up, and non-green people who happen to enjoy a good cookout wouldn't agree) And there are supposed to be health benefits from eating less red meat.
But PETA as it actually is--dumping paint on people's animal-based clothing, showing kids pictures of slaughtered chickens at McDonald's, etc--is just obnoxious, and have quite successfully killed their own name for the public.