Just wondering about PETA


BowJoe

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Is it just me or does PETA have a contradiction to everything they say? Like here for example where PETA bashes the people that actually know about animals more than any PETA member.

As habitat preservation and wildlife conservation have become more important worldwide and more popular in the mainstream media, many people have seized the opportunity to make a living by portraying themselves as "ambassadors" for wildlife. Many of these "wildlife warriors," such as Jack Hanna, Jarod Miller, Jim Fowler, and the late Steve Irwin and Marlon Perkins, have based their celebrity status on showcasing wild animals in film, television, magazines, and other forums. Although their supposed message-emphasizing habitat protection and endangered species conservation-is often right on target, their actions are often quite contradictory.

While these warriors claim to educate the world about the plight of wildlife and the importance of protecting animals whom we share the planet with, any positive message is lost when the presenter exploits and harasses the very animals who are meant to be protected. Hauling animals to television studios or ambushing an alligator with ropes, duct tape, and a camera crew compels people to approach wild animals themselves or-even worse-purchase one to keep as a "pet," thereby fueling the cruel exotic-animal trade.

These celebrities' work becomes more about showboating egos and titillating audiences at the expense of animals than about education. Does the public really need to see someone dragging a frightened snake out of a hole and flailing the animal around on a stick in order to realize how important and morally imperative it is to respect and protect that animal?

And then here where PETA says something totally contradictory about how to keep geese from your area.

Trapping, shooting, or removing individual birds is a shortsighted “solution” to any perceived problem. As long as the areas of concern remain attractive and accessible to these birds, more will move in from surrounding areas to fill the newly vacant niche, resulting in a perpetual, vicious roundup-and-kill cycle. The only way to effectively and permanently keep waterfowl away from areas where they are not wanted is to make the habitat unattractive or inaccessible to them by implementing integrated Canada goose management programs using strategies developed by organizations such as the nonprofit Geesepeace, that include public-education programs, habitat-modification strategies, repellents, fencing, frightening devices, and reproductive controls such as egg addling. For more information on these methods and other wildlife-control methods, please visit the “Living in Harmony With Canada Geese and Other Waterfowl” section of HelpingWildlife.com. Given the numerous humane, nonlethal techniques available and the willingness of groups like Geesepeace and others to help cities develop effective goose-control programs free of charge, there’s no reason to carry out cruel roundups every year.

In two articles on animals, they criticize the true naturalists and world reknown biologists by saying that they interfere with animals and that's what's so horribly wrong with them and then in another article they say how you can get rid of geese by doing worse things than the biologists according to their own words. Idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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