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There's a front group called the Center of Consumer Freedom that is funded by corporates like the meat and tabacco industries (which experiment on animals), they put time and money into defaming activism groups including PETA, taking their euthenisia for diseased and injured animals and warping it into a negative image to sway public opinion. Health organizations like WHO and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics support balanced and planned out plant based dieting for all ages, I'm not super well versed in the nutrition aspect but it's been done. There isn't a nutrient in animal products that can't be found in plants, fungi, or supplements. If your claims about people being unable to live without meat had any truth then my entire family lineage wouldn't exist, being in a lineage where we were born and raised vegetarians like millions have in India for centuries, and recently there have been millions of vegans all abstaining from animal products. Donald Watson, one of the first modern vegans lived over 70 years as one, we're all proof that it's a practical way to live. I understand why this would be hard to grasp as the majority are carnists and it's a lifestyle we all grew up with, we're taught that we can't live without it.

I hope you can wake up from your mentality and realize that inflicting pain and suffering on animals is actually a terrorism for them, not saving them from oppression. You completely dismiss the objective cruelty animals go through for dairy, meat, and skin harvesting, which fundamentally involves domestication (weakening them and changing their anatomy to be unfit to survive), confining, breeding (rape on a non-human, they're artificially inseminated and thus forcefully impregnated to give birth to future meat and milk machines), physical abuse including beatings, electrocution, castration, and teeth/beak/tail cutting, and finally slaughter where they're hanged or restrained, then shot in the head or have their throats slashed, all of which are inherently harmful and cruel, and standard procedures used by factory farms and slaughterhouses to make meat accessable worldwide.

In history, freedom fights and revolutions involved attacking and killing oppressors, this is how we stopped slavery, colonialism, and the Jewish holocaust. If animal rights organizations are terrorists then so are the Underground Railroad and the Americans who stormed Berlin. Anyway, the only distinction other than non-human victims, that ALF and ELF have a code against harming humans obviously cause that would cause more trouble than necessary. These people break into labs, slaughterhouses, and factory farms to free as many victimimized animals as they can, they do these regularly and put their freedom and safety on the line to save innocents, yes the rescues sometimes go wrong but their ultimate goal is to protect and liberate, and they have done so successfully without intentionally harming any humans or animals (of course they have destroyed structures and buildings). I can understand disliking the Animal Rights Militia since they don't hesitate to hurt people, but again, the people in question remorselessly confine, torture, and slaughter animals. Animal liberators like them, ALF, ELF, and so on make differences in the lives of the individuals they save, they're incredibly brave and make a difference for every individual life they spare from inevitable hellish torture and slaughter, and I pray that they never give up no matter how much society opposes them. Put yourself in the place of our species' victims and you'll see that they're freedom fighters, not remotely terrorists. Non-human animals are the single most oppressed group in history, and their capacity to feel pain, sentience, and desires for self preservation make them worthy of equal respect to us. We're morally obligated to find ways to live without subjecting animals to exploitaiton, suffering, and death. You condemn PETA for euthenizing incurably sick and diseased pets who are populated by breeders, but conveniently overlook the inherent cruelties supported by carnists that are required to get meat, dairy, and skin products. Your compassion is selective and that you're only concerned about the products you get from them like the majority, products like animal meat, dairy, and skin is simply not necessary for the majority of humanity's survival in this age and the millions of vegans and vegetarians around the world are proof of these. Not everybody can be vegan but the majority has the ability to commit and boycott/abstain from animal products as practically as they can.

Again though I can understand why you think you can't live without animal products but my problem with your statements is particularly not only your dismissals of the inherent cruelties animals face to have their meat and skins harvested, but that you have implicit biases and negative stereotypes towards animal liberators and rights activists. Even if veganism doesn't work for you, you can't deny the inherent cruelties animals are forced into, or that they're killed by the millions every day for products. Animal liberators and rights organizations have made history rescueing them and shutting facilities that abuse them down, and yet you claim that the ALF "destroy and terrorize people into bending their edicts", and that they don't liberate or save anyone which is an outright lie and denial of their intentions, focus, and actions. You also say that PETA pays people to murder animals and skin them, seriously? It's a ludicrious and outlandish accusation, how do you figure that as opposed to meat and skin harvesting being inherently cruel and them filming these practices undercover? Hypothetically let's say it's true, it would be pretty messed up on the part of a few members who would do that (not the whole organization, similarly to ALF which rescues handfuls of animals, PETA has passed laws and shut down slaughterhouses and labs, facilities that collectively kill thousands to millions daily), it would mean that the faction of the organization who stages videos would have to be condemned and kicked out, it doesn't invalidate the vegan philosophy, animal rights, PETA's numerous other investigations, or the fact that animal agriculture is inherently cruel and destructive, whether fur animals are skinned alive or gassed first and then skinned, the end result is them being killed. It's denial on your part, if you can convince yourself that the messenger is evil you don't have to listen to them or hold accountability for the normalized cruelties you support.

We're taught to disassociate how animals are violently killed and the products we buy, or we're convinced that they can be killed humanely and painlessly without acknowledging that them being killed at all especially without survival necessity is morally wrong. But you hold such toxic and malicious implicit biases towards animal rights activists and liberators, and dismissing their purpose, motives, and cause, and righteous actions by lying that they don't save or liberate anyone when that's what they're known for and documented doing (tragically I've heard there are times animals could be harmed or killed during rescues, but these are unintentional accidents, incomparable to having them be deliberately bred, confined, and killed in meat and skin farms). To claim that the people who ideologically oppose cruelty pay people who make profit off of cruelty to commit it, it's simply hateful, malicious, toxic, and offensive of you to think that way.

I looked at your journal and all of these links are dead ends and some lead to random sites, and the Pike Place Fish Market pages don't convey anything about PETA. They do help countless animals with their investigations and have shut down slaughterhouses and labs, and they state that they euthenize animals in pain from disease and injuries. I still have to read about them from Nathan Winograd's blog to understand their euthenisia policies but the the Center of Consumer Freedom has a conflict of interest and is unreliable as it's funded by PETA's opposition. I really hope you can consider what I've said and rethink your hatred towards the animal rights movement, and understand that they want to oppose the unnecessary oppression and cruelty inflicted on trillions of innocents, and give them the respect and moral consideration they deserve.