Reply #8: bad personal experiences, i will presume

[pitohui]

i have some good friends who are animal activists, who are involved in the hard dirty work of spay/neuter and placing pets in good homes whenever possible to keep them out of the shelters -- i have other good friends who are involved in the shitty-paying field work around the planet, often in tough situations, to study animals in the wild and to determine how many of these species remain and how likely their eco-systems are to survive -- some of these are ph.D scientists getting paid nothing or next to nothing who have to hustle to fund themselves (thru art, photography, leading tour groups etc ) -- can you imagine if a physicist had to fund himself by hustling tourists into the lab? yet we accept that in the biological sciences...

those folks have EARNED their bones and they are doing a real job in the world that needs to be done, they won't hear any backchat from me

HOWEVER...

the likes of some of the folks involved PETA, who do nothing real for animals, and apparently exists as an organization to siphon off time/energy/money from the naive while making the left look loony -- those "activists" should be called out as the self-promoting fakes they are and i won't hesitate to say so -- there are people in PETA that i am convinced could not ID a living animal (other than a domestic cat or a chicken) on a freaking bet, they are that butt ignorant about anything except how to draw attention to themselves

it's just interesting that PETA is nowhere to be found when people doing the real work of helping and studying animals need $$$