No organisation operates on thoughts, prayers and well enthusiastic pats on the back. Everyone from Oxfam to your local SPCA needs money to keep the lights on. Not quite sure how fundraising by anti-whalers is a bad thing. Should we then be promoting it or sit with our hands folded whilst whalers decimate whale populations? I can see certain parallels in approaches. Different means objectives, though. There's a bit of psychology behind what you're saying. However, I would have to say that such kind of thinking is a easy way to sit in your comfort zone and not be challenged by new perspectives. When Arrive Alive runs a 'Don't drink and drive' campaign, do you see it and figure '**** that, don't tell me what to do!' or when the SPCA campaigns for people to not set off fireworks during New Year's/Diwali do you also think '**** that, don't tell me what to do!'. Take a minute to understand the message, digest it and then make up your mind. Yes, Peta's methods are often abrasive and confrontational and many don't agree with it and you don't have to, but they are one voice in a sea of millions. Societal changes require facing uncomfortable truths. Would women have voting rights if the suffragettes didn't make a peep, out of fear of upsetting the fragile patriarchal egos of men? Ending the meaningless exploitation of animals is not being campaigned to satisfy someone at Peta's need for virtue signalling, it's being done because the ethics and science show that the current status quo is untenable and is vastly detrimental to human and non-human animals' health and welfare, as well as the environment and future of this planet.
