Reply #56: But it's NOT strictly a matter of quantity.

[superduperfarleft]

It's like making sure you're only buying non-sweatshop products from Wal-Mart. You're still supporting the industry which turns right back around and exploits the people you're attempting to help. It's as much an argument of economics as it is of the individual choice to go vegan.

And PETA's victories are regularly overshadowed by the most tone deaf, socially retarded marketing department I think I've ever seen. That's not to diminish the impact on those individual animals that were helped in any way, but as part of the larger picture, not only does encouraging people to eat animal products (which their endorsement of vegetarianism and so-called "compassionate" slaughter indirectly does) continue to perpetuate animal exploitation, their insensitive (to say the least) portrayals of women and people of color distracts from their message and makes the conversation about PETA as opposed to helping animals, which in turn further dilutes the popular concept of animal rights.

I'm not trying to berate you into abandoning PETA, just trying to put another viewpoint out there.