I've never given PETA much thought before. Then I watched this video as well as this one, and the temptation to make fun of it was too powerful for me to ignore.

I'm all for the humane treatment of animals, but PETA takes it to a whole new level of extremes, and no one likes an extremist. In fact, I tend to make fun of extremists because they're usually funny. While their intentions are noble, PETA's actions are so extreme where it's gotten to the point where humans are treated as the enemies of all things animal, thanks to the actions of KFC and the various slaughter houses out there.

Not that I enjoy the thought of animals being brutally killed, but y'know what? Animals kill animals. People kill people. Animals kill people. So what difference should it make if people kill animals? Life is one big cycle of creatures killing each other for survival, so is what we're doing that much more evil than what a bear or lion does?

But, you existential folk may argue, it's not evil for the animals because they don't know what they're doing is wrong, yet we know it's wrong and we do it anyway. I can see where you're coming from, but think about it this way. Humans are creatures, too, but we're evolved in a way that focuses on intelligence and reasoning, and that's our species' advantage--our only advantage, minus opposable thumbs. GUESS WHAT, GUYS? BEARS HAVE CLAWS THAT CAN TEAR YOUR SKULL WITH ONE SWIPE! CROCODILES CAN EXERT OVER 5000 POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH WITH THEIR BITES! BIRDS CAN FLY! WITHOUT THE NEED FOR AIRLINE TICKETS AND BAGGAGE CHECKS! When you take that into account, humans don't have much going for them outside their intelligence, so we basically spam what little we have just to survive.

The killing and eating of animals is just another form of our survival. Humans are omnivores; that means we're designed to eat both plants and meat. Slaughtering chickens for KFC is just another form of predation, albeit much more controlled and mass-produced. Granted, I'm not that happy about how the chickens are treated before they die, but compared to the fate of other animals out there, the chicken slaughtering isn't that bad. Snakes swallow their prey whole after they're injected with venom, and if their prey didn't die after that, they're being digested alive. Either way, they have a pretty agonizing death. Lions latch onto their prey's jugular and chokes them to death--you guessed it--painfully. Really, is what we're doing at slaughterhouses anymore merciless than what most predators do?

PETA believes animals and humans should be on equal footing. That means we're just like a lion and a bear, and just like a lion or a bear, we hunt. Will it be painless for the prey? Not really. So why should it make any difference for us?

Granted, I do not support the needless torturing of animals. If they're being mistreated, that's when the animal precincts step in to arrest the assholes who mistreat animals. However, the concept of animal testing labs is a little iffy to me. I mean, there are so many cures that have been developed for human diseases from animal testing that it's too opportunistic to stop, but at what cost? The animals are locked up in cages and are poked and prodded constantly. On the other hand, a lot of humans wouldn't be here today if it weren't for all that torturing. See the moral dilemma here? I guess it's easier just to not think about it.

But something that really pisses me off about PETA is the comparison of humans to Nazis, and killing all these animals is just like the holocaust. Okay, what the HELL?! I can see where they're coming from regarding the similarities in deaths, but why they died are completely different. Hitler believed Jews were inferior and wanted to create the "perfect world" by exterminating them all. We're killing chickens and pigs and cows because we're hungry and we wanna eat. Big difference there, guys.

There's even one PETA member (forgot his name) who's a total extremist and goes so far as to commit vandalism and, essentially, terroristic acts to get his points across. The guy's been convicted multiple times, yet he has the gall to compare himself to Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln because he's "breaking the law to make a statement." Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln did not resort to violence to get their points across. Comparing himself to those two great people is an insult to them. And then PETA has the nerve to state that he's a "fine young man!" If blowing up buildings is "fine," what does it take to be a douche?! Oh yeah, eating a hamburger!

So yeah, ranting session over for now. This comic took me many hours to make, but I hope it was worth it. Not the funniest one I've made, but oh well. Oh, and the title is a play on words. You know! Pita bread? PETA bread? Oh, the wit! lolololololol--okay, I'll shut up now. -_-

Crashman and Elecman (c) Capcom
PETA (c) the paws of the animals they're eating out of.