well, i have a dual perception of PETA.
I admire and appreciate much of the good and honest work they do.
But also, some of their bizarre and overboard activities have a tendency to get in the way and negatively color the good work that they do.
I support a great many of their policies, but i do not agree with all of them, like absurd "renaming" of things etc.
I would like to see far better conditions and federal regulations allowing animals on factory farms access to fresh air and more human conditions, because it is brutal what goes on...
however, when PETA tells everyone to become a vegetarian and then screams and stomps its feet, it defeats the message.
for every good thing it does, like opposing the seal hunts or the dolphin hunts in gJapan or dogfighting, it then does something incredibly stupid that makes them look like idiots.
it is not productive to behave like that.
i tried going vegetarian...I could not do it, because the choices were not enough for me,
but i eat mostly chicken and eggs, steak or burger maybe once a month, pork maybe once a month at most, never veal and i hate fish and never touch it except for some shellfish on occasion.
i think there are alot of folks like me, who eat meat, but do not want those animals on farms to suffer or be treated horrifically before they become our meals...nobody with a heart wants that...
I do not want elephants in circuses, or dolphins and orcas in captivity, or chimps being scientifically experimented on as these are creatures with extremely high emotional levels, and there is something inhuman in treating such intelligent and endearing creatures of all types like this...
as with most things, the answer lies somewhere in the center, between the extremes.