You need life to live
IN essence all creations take the lifeform of another to survive, photosynthetics take the life of stars(in perticular the one we call sun), herbivores take the life of plant and fungal matter to survive, filter feeders take the life of low cell count organisms, carnivores take the life of fleshy organisms, omnivores take what they get. So; realistically treating meaty lifeforms above photosynthetic lifeforms is just racism on PETA's part,eating a plant is still eating a formerly living creature only difference is that creature isnt "cute enough to stick on a button saying dont eat me" if PETA really wants to treat all lifeforms equally they should have a strict diet of ONLY raw minerals from only non organic substances or disgarded waste products such as old clam shells for calcium and water; thats it otherwise youre not treating plants equally, maybe we need a PETPF for plants and fungi. I'll eat what i enjoy to eat because it is my reward for be the more intelligent creature, that said PETA are hypocrites as they are on record for buying a large walk in freezer used for animal cadavers AKA corpses that have been euthanized for 'humane' reasons considering over 65% of the animals they 'rescued' in 2004 were euthanized i dont consider that any better than what was being done to them. P.E.T.A.; a new People Eating Tasty Animals for life. on a side note, i enjoyed killing that turkey =)