Quote Originally Posted by David Jamieson View Post
PETA is an emotional terrorist organization that hopes to stir your mind and get you into reaching into your pocket to give them money for them.
Does PETA fund a world wide network of no kill shelters? Do they actively take your money and buy up land and protect it from hunting? Do they use the donations to close abattoirs by buying them and shuttering them? They are a huge organization with hundreds of millions of dollars and the best the can do is print posters and get celebrities to go naked. A collection of idiots of the highest order.
I personally blame you for the Canadian baby seal bashing. For no other reason then your Canadian and we need a face for the bad guy. You seem like you could be a seal clubber.

But seriously, I think the Nature Conservancy is far and wide the best environmental protection group out there. Some people don't like them because they got a lot of money and influence, and they are too pragmatic and accommodating for extreme ideologues, but hey, they get things done.

They've done a lot of work in my home area, and they go out of their way to make sure villages and hamlets can grow without being harmed, they protect the logging jobs that sustain some of these towns, they work with the hunters and snowmobile clubs to not marginalize anyone that uses the forests, they preserve the areas that need it, keep the woods intact in less sensitive areas, protect the endangered plants and animals, while allowing the harvesting of the plentiful fauna.

They do an excellent job of uniting all the stakeholders, whereas animal rights groups like Peta and many wilderness preservation groups do more to alienate the public than anything. It's really just good planning and common sense, but so many folks want to force their ideology on everyone, they don't get near as much accomplished.

Sorry for the tangent, I think of that whenever a group like Peta gets mentioned...