PETA protest
 

It isn't that I find this offensive....I just find it stupid. Is this going to convince anyone to stop eating meat?

PETA crucifixion

Basically, three guys in animal masks will be hung on crosses.

The slogan of the protest action would be "We suffer and die for your sins of nourishment."

To each their own.

They sure know how to get press exposure... Oy.

One day they'll wake up a realize that their methods are anything BUT effective.

I think the only way they are effective is that people usually end up talking about what they did for their latest protest. But that doesn't mean people are agreeing with them. It just means that they can inspire discussion... like now.
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But, it doesn't inspire me not to eat meat - and I'm an animal lover (and eater). So, what is their point?

PETA is performance art.

naked people in giant meat packages?

This cross stunt?

Naked people in general?

It's a bunch of out of work performance artists with a desire to show their naked bodies off?

That's what I mean. Their tactics are outdoing their message. I don't know what their point is. Maybe that they take their beliefs as seriously as Christians do (especially during this week)? I don't know.
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I'm Christian- I don't feel the need to hang myself from anything to show my convictions.

Actually, I think PETA is reasonably effective. They are the fringe leader but drag a lot in their wake. Over the last 30 years the animal rights movement has made a lot of progress. Not so much directly because of PETA but because of other groups who would be stuck with the fringe label if it weren't PETA. So for the movement, I'd say they play an important role.

They make other groups that would seem radical and fringe seem more like a reasonable compromise. Kind of like the congressman who calls for impeachment knowing it will make the call for censure by his colleague more palatable.


But we'll know they're serious when they do a billboard that depicts a pig as Mohammed, saying to the other animals "I told you you should make nice to the man."

What's wrong with naked people and performance art? I'd support more causes that employeed these tactics.