Over the years, I've posted threads in this group using PETA as my source, because PETA was the only animal rights group that cared enough to do anything about certain types of animal torture.
For example, the horrific way hundreds of thousands of angora rabbits in China are raised in tiny cages, taken out every three months to have their fur painfully ripped off them, and then thrown back into their tiny cages, shaking with fright and horror, and then, three months later, the process is repeated.
These gentle, sweet creatures need their fur, and to have it violently and painfully ripped off them every three months, so it can be sold to make coats and sweaters, is truly despicable.
PETA is the only organization that has bothered to do anything about the treatment of angora rabbits in China.
They've successfully organized boycotts of large clothing manufacturers and outlets such as L.L. Beane and others which resulted in those large corporations now refusing to use Chinese angora.
The horror and pain those poor rabbits have to suffer still goes on, but at least one group is doing something about it....and that one group is PETA.
BTW, when I do post threads using PETA as the source, I state clearly that
"This thread is not about PETA, and I only am using PETA as my source because PETA is the only group in the world that is doing anything about this animal torture.
Anyone who wants to argue about using PETA as my source, or disparage PETA in any way will be put on "Full Block"
I am a proud supporter of PETA!
I'm also a proud supporter of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, which, like PETA, does excellent work on behalf of helpless animals that are routinely tortured for monetary reasons
[Animal Legal Defense Fund...aldf.org]
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