Hi Rhayden!!
It's great that you try to educate people about where meat comes from and what some of the animals have to endure, BUT, stay away from that PETA lot. They are trouble with a capital T. They are very one sided and won't listen to anyone. Yes, I will agree that they do do some good things (like midnight raids on battery farms), but for the most part, they are bad.
They don't agree with meat consumption at all, regardless of how the animal was raised. Eggs should never be consumed, even from free range hens, because it means the hens are in captivity (even as free range, there are fences). No animal should ever be held in captivity, so that means no pets at all. No dogs, no cats, no fish, no birds, no nothing. You can't even put seed out for the local birdlife (not that you should anyway, but a lot of people like to do that instead of having an aviary). They would have me named and shamed if they knew about my pet sheep that lives inside. To them, that is the ultimate cruelty, having a farm animal as a pet. I can say without a doubt if I put my little sheep in a paddock and left him here, he wouldn't last 5 minutes. He's terrified of sheep, and I mean TERRIFIED, to the point where he was laying on the ground with his legs out, shaking, because he was penned with some ewes for 10 minutes before he got shorn last year.
Most foreigners can't understand it, but kangaroos here in most areas, are a pest. They are in plague proportions in some areas, because when it comes to breeding, they are pretty much drought proofed (they can put a pregnancy on hold if the conditions are bad and then restart it again when things improve). Last year, some kangaroos had taken up residence in a bad area, so to cut a long story short, it was decided they would be killed as opposed to captured and moved. In rocks PETA, chest puffed out, ready to do their stuff. They had all the protests under the sun to save these animals and tried different ways to get them out. In the end, they did get in and they released some. What they didn't realise was, they released the wrong ones. The ones they released had been captured and tested/tagged for something to do with breeding and were to be released. They'd been sedated and PETA let them out while still having the full effects of the sedation. Very few of those animals would've survived because if they didn't get taken by another animal, they would've ended up confused and on the road.
Something that a lot of people don't realise about PETA is, 95% of the animals they 'rescue' are destroyed. Why? Because animals shouldn't be kept in captivity. ALL animals should be allowed to roam free with not a care in the world. As most of the animals that they 'rescue' can't be released, they kill them.
Regarding the videos on their site, I don't recommend anyone looking at those. I was stupid enough to look at some and have regretted it ever since. That was 10 years ago and it still plays on my mind sometimes. Some of the videos and photos on their site were created by themselves to prove their point. They made photos of posed dead chooks with KFC boxes, trying to say KFC treated their chickens badly before they killed them. KFC don't raise their own birds, they buy already processed birds, so they don't have a say in how they're raised.
When I see PETA picketing abattoirs and intensive farming farms, then I might have more time for them, but as it stands, they only like to save cute and cuddly. Cows, sheep and pigs don't fall into that category it seems because whenever I ask any animal lib people about the above, they change the subject pretty quickly.
I think when the organisation started, it had really good intentions and ideas, but then a few crackpots got involved and they went off the rails. It's a shame, because the animals need all the voices they can get.
Sorry for the rant!
Jane