All I need to know about taking PETA seriously I got from Penn and Teller's show Bullshit!
They euthanize enough animals that they bought a walk in freezer, like the one at a meat plant.
They finance domestic terrorists:
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# Paid a claimed $70,000 in support of convicted ALF arsonist Rodney Coronado (1998).
# Donations to ELF. The United States FBI considers ELF to be the "most active domestic terrorism group in the country" (2000/01)
# Paid $34,900 fine for convicted ALF activist Roger Troen.
And they say that my child is no more valuable than a pig or a mouse.
So yes, I take them seriously, same as I do any other threat.