OP, you seem to have a lot of guilt about your lifestyle. I'm almost certain that you've ranted about PETA before and even just vegans in general. I have a strong hunch you haven't even actually had much if any interaction with either group, but you're clearly bothered by their mere existence, which says a lot more about you than anything.
Hell I can't remember the last time I heard about PETA when it wasn't some jackoff doing what they were bitching about themselves crying about PETA for simply existing. To me they're about as relevant as Greenpeace, they were semi-famous because of some stunts, but have since been overshadowed by people focusing on the legit parts of their messages and bypassing much of the antics. So people becoming concerned about climate change, pollution, and humane treatment of animals (or feeling that's impossible as part of the industrial food production of various animal products - including ones that don't require killing the animals like milk/cheese).
I'm not vegan, but I love that its becoming more and more common. At this point, one of the main reasons I am is because it sure seems to piss off people like you.
If PETA is a cause for concern in your life, your life is pretty damn good.
Bingo. There's about a billion things to be making a fuss about before PETA these days. But hey, guess he doesn't seem to care all that much about the actual people being put into cages, so much for his concern about people being not concerned with humans enough.
PEATA doesn't save animals, it kills them in it's 'shelters' and it's been doing so for a long time.
Which is not exactly uncommon in animal shelters, so why people act like that's some bombshell, I don't know. Sometimes the most humane thing is to end suffering.
It should be consider a Culigion. Duh.
Last I heard is that PETA is a lot like the "god hates fags" group (forget their name at hte moment).... They basically make huge publicity scenes and then have an army of lawyers.
As usual you don't know what you're talking about (big surprise there). Fred Phelps was a lawyer (he actually used to be well respected and was one of the few that would defend black people in Topeka back in like the 60s) and they weren't just making a scene to try to get lawsuits, although they did file some lawsuits when places tried to do various things to prevent their protests. They are for real crazy people that have their own interpretation of the Bible.
Frankly their existence is one of the reasons why many bigoted people in Kansas don't think they themselves bigoted because they think bigots are people who do crazy shit like that, where its over the top.
Then again, PETA isn't that either, but not like anyone seems to care. That's not to say they're positive or haven't ever had frivolous lawsuits. But its not like their antics nullifies the objective truth parts of their arguments.