ORIGINAL: moosehornhunter
Ok so we don't team up with PETA as an organization...we start another, more sensible organization. Not all PETA supporters are vegetarians, or off the wall freaks. I would venture to guess that the majority of the members are just like you and me. It's just that they have nowhere else to turn. If a more rational outlet was made available, I'm nearly certain they would utilize it.
My aunt was a huge supporter of PETA before she passed away. So much so that she gave all her money in her will to PETA. She ate meat, in fact she loved a good steak. PETA is flawed, and many PETA supporters know this.
Start another org to recruit the best/worst of both worlds?
That's all we need is some useless organization floundering around without a clear direction trying to broaden the scope of its base
you know how you have to broaden the scope?--you have to make the objective and policies more benign and thus more pleasing to a larger group of people. Hell, you can't even get most hunters to agree on a lot of subjects---take the whole USO-Taulman fiasco.
Oh you have a clear direction? Well then, as Bobby said earlier, can you define where the inhumane treatment begins--veal farm? mass chicken houses? medical experiments?
Sounds to me like your aunt's thinking was what was flawed. If you couldn't convince her (did you try?) to do something more rsponsible with her money, how do you think you can convince all those animal rights nutjobs?
If you want to join something--try the NRA--heck, you can't even convince some hunters to do that.