Mary Beth Sweetland is diabetic and injects herself with insulin daily.
Animal testing of insulin began back in 1889, and hit the market in 1921. Despite imagined characteristics, the organization is led by fully-functioning adults who possess the knowledge that the battles of yesterday are not the battles of today.
Penn & Teller did an episode of their "Bullshit" show on PETA
The mischaracterizations were layed on thick in this episode, even by Penn & Teller standards. PETA opposes guide dogs for the blind? No, they oppose the retirement schemes for working dogs, stress that each situation can be unique, and believe humans are more optimal for these roles. That chickens don't care if they suffer? The same slippery-slope case could be made of handicapped humans, or undereducated masses. PETA opposes humans having pets? The clip used as evidence said no such thing, and anyone with even a passing knowledge of the group knows this to be, yeah, bullshit.
The show relies on college professors and lawyers not affiliated with PETA for soundbites, pushing forward the strawman that they advocate releasing hundreds of thousands of animals out onto the street, right this very moment. For their opposition, they cite
The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, American exceptionalist Dennis Prager, and Ted Nugent, a nutcase who pays tens of thousands of dollars a year to cage animals, only to release them into an open field so that he and a dozen hired truck & jeep drivers can run the animal down for a trophy kill.
Lastly, the program attempts to construct an awkward conspiracy theory mentality concerning PETA's euthanization program, and then turns around and presents the fact that PETA is out in the open about their euthanization numbers. Huh?
It's worth noting that those women willingly go into the cages.
Which, frankly, throws Büge's notion that these women are being forced into cages out the window. The majority of these models are superstars or willing activists. Their tongue-in-cheek approach even mirrors the flawed notion of a body being seen as meat to be used and discarded.
For all that has been said of PETA's tactics as not being effective, consider that their membership has doubled in the last four years. The many unfounded vilifications of this group have naturally followed.