I have a profound love and respect for all animals, that being said, I have seen unspeakable atrocities inflicted upon many animals (from pig and cow slaughterhouses to police tying dogs to the back bumper of the car, to the Yulin dog meat festival in China) and I think organizations like PETA could help diminish that kind of human abuse. As I have expressed in other posts I believe nature is cruel and like you said wild animals don't have controlled environments and diets and most all the times suffer gruesome deaths. I will never forget a documentary about lions, one of the females got her jaw kicked off by a giraffe. That lion knew she was dead at that time, so she just separated from the pack and after a couple days with the face fully infected and starving to death she just lied down and relaxed while she was being eaten alive by hienas. Now tell me nature is not cruel.
Also as an avid hunter I believe that hunting is just part of nature, I feel it is my responsibility to practice and keep my gear in top shape to guarantee a good, clean and fast kill, I rather hunt my food than buying processed meat from stressed and ill treated animals. The meat business has turned now days onto disgusting inhuman slaughterhouses. And that is what PETA should target.
Obviously no one in PETA has ever kept any pet, and as such they can't have an impartial opinion. The down side of this organizations is that they easily loose track of their objectives. They need funding and for that they have to do things that go to media and for that they become sensationalists, they tend to go hugging trees in front of the camera instead of going to courtrooms where they can really make a difference for suffering animals.
But that's just my opinion.
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