I guess some PETA folk actually haven't lost their grip on reality. Some people are intelligent enough to realize that treating animals ethically-a very subjective subject- does not mean they have to give up eating animal products.
Actually, PETA does in fact encourage vegetarianism. Just go to its website. That said, it also fights a two front war by trying to promote vegetarianism alongside better treatment of animals in recognition of the fact that not all will choose the vegetarian lifestyle.
One would think though that a PETA member would live up to the organization's highest standards as an example for others to follow, no?
As an interesting aside, there is of course the question of religious prejudice. For instance, research in Germany had shown that the traditional Jewish and Muslim ways of killing an animal sometimes caused the animal less suffering than the traditional German way, which also happens to be the traditional French and Canadian, or day we simply say, Western way. In spite of this though, France was in an uproar over Halal Quicks because they did not appreciate having religion 'forced' on them. I doubt the animals cared though, but that's beside the point.
In the end though, one would think that an organization that promotes vegetarianism would be vegetarian itself, no?