PETA buying shares in FB...what next?

For Immediate Release:
July 1, 2019

Contact:
Moira Colley 202-483-7382

Menlo Park, Calif. – Today, PETA purchased shares in Facebook, enabling the group to submit a shareholder resolution, attend the company’s annual meetings, and ask questions of executives there. The move comes after the social media platform upped its use of warning screens on PETA videos showing real-life incidents of routine cruelty to animals, significantly limiting the group’s ability to expose animal suffering to a wide audience.

“People deserve to see what animals endure in laboratories, on factory farms and in slaughterhouses, when they’re skinned or plucked alive for clothing, and when they’re beaten so that they’ll perform tricks,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA urges Facebook to follow Twitter’s lead by allowing users to decide for themselves whether they want to opt in or out of warning covers.”

Sharing eyewitness video footage directly with the public through social media has played a vital role in many of PETA’s victories in behalf of animals—including leading major companies to end appallingly cruel experiments on animals, forcing many circuses that use animals to shut down or stop using wild animals, and persuading hundreds of retailers to ban fur, angora, and mohair.

PETA’s motto reads, “Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.” The group opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.
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Longlowdog

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
Unless you sign the vegan pledge you probably won't be allowed to access or create an account.
I wonder how much they spent?
Always the same, the folk who want to interfere in farming, hunting, wildfowling, etc always spend their pennies on propaganda rather than buying acres. I'm sure with what they have just spent they could have emptied the rings at your local mart and rehomed the animals in a nirvana where the sheep are never shorn, the chickens eggs are never collected and where all life forms including parasites and fly larvae are cherished.
 

Dr. Alkathene

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Livestock Farmer
It’s more a publicity stunt than anything. Anyone can buy some shares and propose the opposite to whatever PETA propose. Sadly I expect many of those calling the shots at faceache HQ would support PETA lunacy in one form or another.
 
The propaganda is working though.
Friend had visit yesterday from local Council over a footpath, somewhere it shouldn’t be. Young bloke went through the calf area, hutches and strawed yards. He was shocked.

“They aren’t bawling for their mum!! “
Nope, they don’t if they’re fed and happy.
Then the group went through the field of milking cows, who came and said hallo, but no bawling,
“The cows aren’t shouting for their calves!!”.

Then, shock horror he saw MALE calves.
“But you shoot them all at birth!!”.

Nope, they’re reared and sold. And before you make any more wild assumptions based on propaganda, go and visit a farm, knock on the door and look for yourself.
 
Its hope so as Im not sure of their power FB is constantly pulling on sale posts and many farmers use FB to sell. My understanding that its a regular thing to have your posts taken off and having to appeal. With PETA involved how much authority they can have is unknown.
 

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
Its hope so as Im not sure of their power FB is constantly pulling on sale posts and many farmers use FB to sell. My understanding that its a regular thing to have your posts taken off and having to appeal. With PETA involved how much authority they can have is unknown.


No.

FB is banning the sale of animals, EXCEPT that for businesses.


Farm animals, business to business are not being banned/stopped.
 

Dry Rot

Member
Livestock Farmer
No.

FB is banning the sale of animals, EXCEPT that for businesses.


Farm animals, business to business are not being banned/stopped.

I have a mature Highland stallion looking for a working home right now. FB initially banned the "advertisement" (I know better than to post those for live animals!), so I appealed it. It was again rejected on appeal.

I don't know what they are up to but the ad is still there and now they are suggesting I boost it!:LOL:
 

Nithsdale

Member
Livestock Farmer
They are - and you show me how to over-rule their decision no direct contact possible and even the appeal then gets returned with you forced to accept their T&C's


FB released a statement not too long ago explaining their position on private sales of animals (pets) and how they are stopping it, but not the sales of farm animals as part of business.

The working Sheepdog page @Leereade is involved with is still going, and he will know better about it
 

Boysground

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
What scares me is the thought that someone like PETA can upload your farm and deem you a criminal/animal abuser then post that around the world.

Couldnt agree more. Have had pictures of my "veal" calves on face book and had a landrover full of balaclava wearing people taking photos of the farm.

It is not a nice experience

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