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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Protein deprivation causes stupid.

You do realize you can get protein from other sources than meat in fact some foods have more protein than meat.

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The PETAphiles some years back boycotted KFC for factory farming chickens....  KFC said BFD - those pricks don' t eat here anyway.....

That' s why I am a customer...

This is a stupid objection. I may not like PETA but their whole goal is the Ethical treatment of ALL animals, not just the ones they "use". This is as dumb as telling a group of abolitionists protesting the sugar industry's use of slave labor they're dumb because they don't eat sugar(and many of them didn't ) so they shouldn't protest the ethics of it.

You can support the goals of a group while, at the same time, recognizing the some methods of achieving those goals may be poorly thought out.

PETA's goal (the ethical treatment of animals) is a good one, and they have every right to protest. But a boycott is a very specific form of protest whereby you stop purchasing a company's product in order to create enough economic pain to cause that company to change whatever practices you disagree with.  Declaring a boycott of a company you don't already patronize and whose products you don't already use isn't a protest, it's an empty, meaningless gesture.

Boru