Hear me out: PETA is absolute shit
I have read a lot about PETA on their websites and I was a fan of them for a long time. Cause I'm the opinion animals should not be harmed, and I thought they were too. But no.
I guess all of you heard about the steve irwin thing, or how bad zoos are in their opinion, or that sheep shouldn't be sheared or that cats can live vegan. Which is all absolute dumb assery.
Well this is going to be a longer story:
I am from a farm so I know a lot about this topic. And I am a volunteer firefighter. Well, imagine it's friday night about 2am and you are brutally awaken by the shrill sound off the fire fighter siren. You rush to the other volunteer firefighters. (Note: volunteer means they all have to go to work the other morning, they get no money for this and they still get up and do this.)
The mission is: 'fire in a farm'. There are a lot of other fire departements on the way, too. You arrive to a fully burning barn with pigs, a barn with hay not completely burning and a close house which is not yet burning. This is it from afar:
The department chief decides to set up a water front that the fire can't get to the house. The barn with the pigs is so hard burning that the building can't be saved. Still firefighters get in, endangering themselves, to try and save some of the remaning pigs. The farmer had already managed to free some thus having bad burns and smoke poisoning himself. Meanwhile other firefighters try to extinguish the fire from the outside. For luck there are much hydrants near. Still 250 of about 500 pigs died this night either of smoke poisoning or of burns. The others had to be sold, because their barn was burned down to the whole and where else could they stay. For luck the house could be saved from greater harms.
This is a existance ruined. A farmer loves their animals and I saw a lot of firefighters crying. This is a rural region. A lot of people here are farmers or at least close to a farm. This was devastating.
Now a few days pass. The mission took to the next morning because there were many remaining embers which had to be extinguished. The ruin is still there reminding everybody of the horrible night. The farmer is back from the hospital to a ruined farm, ruins without animals remaining, a lot of hay and farm machines lost. And the is back to some letters.
Here is where PETA enters. They filed charges against this farmer. You want to know why? They claimed there was not a good system of water for the firefighters, they claimed that no pigs had to burn if everyone was vegan. They claimed it is impossible to help animals if there are to much in one barn.
They do not know any of this. They didn't even check if there was something wrong with the water systems. They just filed it. The county had invested 90.000 euros in firefighters and watersystems the year before.
Imagine your farm burns down, you lose everything and then some fuckers file charges even if they don't know anything.
PETA fucking sucks.
