"If dressing up like clan members, exploiting women in protests, investing in the animal industry, or euthanize 80-97% of 'rescued' animals doesn't change your mind about PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, perhaps their recent lawsuit will get your attention.
Is PETA suing KFC as part of their KFCruelty campaign? Are they suing Lowes for selling mousetraps? PETA instead has decided to take it easy on those guys and instead go after the Friends of Animals animal advocacy organization's primate sanctuary."
http://www.examiner.com/x-4198-Omaha-Vegan-Examiner~y2009m3d30-Why-is-PETA-suing-animal-rights-organizations
Yes folks you heard correctly. If it's not the Sea Shepherd Society fighting on the high seas with Greenpeace over which group is going to take on the Japanese whalers then it's PETA suing other animal rights groups.
In 2006, the battle between the animal rights group Sea Shepherd Society and Greenpeace got so out of control that the two ships were ramming each other.
"On christmas day, captain Watson (leader of Sea Shepherd) announced having intercepted the factory ship NM. On christmas day, the environmental ships sent each other friendly wishes. Shortly after that, they tried to ram each other in a real sea battle.
Misled and betrayed
The bad blood between Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd goes back a long time. Paul Watson was one of the founders of Greenpeace in 1972. But 7 years later he left the organisation because it was too tame and founded Sea Shepherd. While Greenpeace adopted an ethic of non-violence, Watson believes in confrontation and aggression to achieve goals. “Greenpeace are "the Avon ladies of the environment" and are more interested in publicity than in enforcing international law”.
Few days ago Sea Shepherd accused Greenpeace of not wanting to reveal the whereabouts of the whaling fleet.
"Greenpeace has misled Sea Shepherd and betrayed us”, Watson shouted. “The Japanese fleet does not give a damn about protests. Greenpeace just take pictures and hang banners. We are down here to enforce international conservation law and to stop the illegal whaling operations."
Greenpeace retorted: "Greenpeace distance themselves from Sea Shepherd because of their inability to commit to non-violent tactics. But we'll do what we can to put bodies between harpoons and whales and protect the whales non-violently,"
A Greenpeace activist climbed recently on a wounded whale to prevent the Japanese from launching a second harpoon. The Japanese tried to get him of with water hoses.
It got so heated up, that a collision between the ships nearly couldn't’ be avoided. Both Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd say that the competing organisation tried to ram their ship, to be able to chase the Japanese alone.
Whaling fleet disappeared
While both organisations where fighting each other and tried to figure out who has the right to protect the whales, the Japanese whalers disappeared from the seas. The three ships search desperate with radar and helicopter for the whalers. It appears the disagreement is solved."
