PETA ad compares Greyhound bus attack to slaughtering animals! What?

It is terrible what happened to the young man on the Greyhound bus in Canada. It was a sick event without a motive. I think PETA feels strongly about caring for animals and it was just trying to make a point. I likes to shock people into having compassion for animals. I have seen PETA magazines and these people desperately want animals to stop being slaughtered, experimented on and treated unfairly. However they often say the wrong thing and this offends some people. I love animals. We can all say the wrong thing sometimes hey.

First of all, I'd have to seriously question the sanity of a group that targets children to further their cause. Your also right in that comparing a human who is attacked, killed and beheaded by a deranged person to animal slaughter is comaparing apples and steamboats...one has nothing to do with the other. I do feel bad for the animals that are killed everyday just so ppl can have a burger or a ham sandwich but that is the way our world is. I could never kill an animal no matter how hungry I am and I often feel guilty when I'm having meat b/c I realize where it comes from but neither of those things is going to stop other ppl from eating meat or killing the animals to get it. I understand what PETA is all about and I commend them for wanting to save animals but targeting kids and using horrific trauma's to do it isn't the way to go. [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS**[/b]

I find it tasteless. I am pro animal rights but human dignity should be respected at all times.

I don't expect any amount of decency to come from the buffoons at PeTA. We're talking about people who hold the lives and welfare of animals to be more important than humans. They've compared animals slaugter houses to the holocaust, which is just plain despicable. They devalue human life, financially support eco-terrorists, and some of them have openly stated that if it came down to saving an animal or saving a human, they'd save the animal. Actually, if you pay attention to their records, they can't even boast "ethical" treatment of animals themselves. They KILL more animals than they save every year. Their excuse is that they would rather humanely euthanize animals than keep them in shelters that are falling apart. This non-profit organization that makes up to $30,000,000 a year, if not more, can't afford to keep their shelters in good condition and find loving homes for the couple thousand of animals they pick up each year, but your local animal shelter with a fraction of that budget and far more animals has managed to out do Peta in both adoptions, as well as euthanize far less animals. Peta just likes to see themselves in the news- they don't care about animals or people, just publicity.

Although I am a vegetarian and believe it is wrong to hurt animals, I've never felt like PETA represents me or my views very well. I hadn't heard of this latest stunt of theirs, but they always seem to try to go for shock value so it unfortunately doesn't surprise me. In the two examples you mention in your post, PETA seems to not even care about the pain they are inflicting on people as long as they can put their message out. My beliefs are based on the notion that it is wrong to hurt others -- how can one effectively express a message about not causing pain when you spread that message in a way that itself causes pain?

i think they are just trying to make a point. but using the wrong way to get the point across.