As a senior, I see so many changes in the human~animal relationship over the past 40 years. Some of it is encouraging, and much of it is frightening.
I believe we have PETA to blame. They are an AR propaganda machine of great success. They do absolutely nothing FOR animals, but produce propaganda, with just enough truth to make them seem valid. Their crap is aimed at the young person, and is skillfully created.
Their messages evoke high emotion, and hence the unreasonable emotional responses we see here everyday. All that they really are, is a money-making scam, yet they keep sucking people in.
I am all for a kinder and gentler world, in which animals are treated with respect, but without humans becoming the bottom of the totem, and the animal being worshiped.
I guess the ones that bother me the most, are the ones who will put an untrained vicious dog above the safety of their own children. .Pretty scary! When I tell them to have the dog humanely euthanized to keep their children safe, I get hate mail.
PETA is trying to tell the children that it is bad to eat Sea Kittens..!!!!
There is a video on their site that portrays the fish in a human-type family, and suffering when their loved ones are taken by the big bad fisherman. Cruel to eat fish?
Don't be surprised when humanizing fish is the common way of thinking.
Each year, Virginia says they are revoking the non-profit status of PETA..I wish they would stop talking and start acting.
Do you want a good laugh..(or cry) check out PETA's Sally the Sea Kitten:
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