One day my father and I were at an expo of some sort. This was when I was about eight, so I can’t recall what sort of expo or why we went, but we ended up stopping by the booth that had been set up by the state troopers so my dad (who was an officer himself) could chat with one of his friends. Right across from the trooper booth was the booth set up PETA, and they were showing a very graphic video about hunting and trapping. My father’s friend told us that one of the PETA members admitted to him that they had paid to have the traps they were featuring in their video set up. Now, whether that is true I cannot say, but it always left a sour taste in my mouth when it came to the organization. Well, that and the stories of PETA members tossing buckets of cow’s blood onto people. Both of which show the hypocrisy of the organization (again, if they are even true in the first place).
There’s also the fact that I have never once met a PETA member that hasn’t been a condescending prick. Now, I know that the chances of PETA’s entire membership being condescending pricks is slim to none, but they sure seem to have a disproportionate amount of them.
Long story short, they seem to be a very “End justifies the means” kind of group, and I’m not all that into that mentality.