PETA Kills animals?
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PETA is in my opinion not an animal welfare group, and most people are unaware of that fact. In 2002 they spent less than 2% of their multi-million dollar donations on actually helping animals. The majority of it went towards the defense of criminals in their organization who had done such things as bombing labratories that used animal testing. PETA does not believe in what they call "animal slaves" ...we would refer to them as pets. Their vision for the world is one where noone eats meat, drinks milk, owns a pet, races horses...etc a world where animals are left to their own devices and humans are unimportant. In direct contrast to thier "We love animals" appearance they have euthanised thousands of dogs and cats because it wasn't worth the bother to rehome them. They proudly proclaim their affiliation with a radical group that the FBI considers "One of the biggest terrorist threats to the U.S."
"Even if animal testing produced a cure for AIDS, we would be against it"- direct quote from the president of PETA
"Even if animal testing produced a cure for AIDS, we would be against it"- direct quote from the president of PETA
Bageldog, don't believe everything you read. All things need to be taken with a grain of salt. I am not pro-Peta but there is no way I believe they are killing 78% (or whatever the % was) of their dogs. There would be absolutely no reason for it, if they were only in it for the $ - it would be cheaper to rehome than to euthanize.
I'm sure they do have to euthanize at times when it is neccessary. The group that sponsers this site is apparently focused on ruining Peta's reputation for reasons of their own.
Its kind of ironic, since Peta uses the same tactics that this site that is trying to ruin them: propaganda and misinformation.
I'm sure they do have to euthanize at times when it is neccessary. The group that sponsers this site is apparently focused on ruining Peta's reputation for reasons of their own.
Its kind of ironic, since Peta uses the same tactics that this site that is trying to ruin them: propaganda and misinformation.
Im no statastician(sp) but euthinizing would be cheaper than to have a staff to properly rehome a dog or any animal. There was a news link earlier this week on Yahoo about PETA workers being prosecuted for "rescuing" dogs and then taking them to be euthanized. In this case I dont blame the PETA workers, they where saving dogs from the humane death of mass gassing of dogs.
I am not a fan of PETA.
I am not a fan of PETA.
Like I said, I am not pro-peta, I just don't believe what that website had to say. I can't believe that PETA would have this huge organization that spouts animal rights - and then be secretly killing animals?? It doesn't make sense. I would also advise you not to go to a PETA website and believe everything you read there either. SOME things would be true, but a lot not true. Propaganda to make you believe their way. I'm not trying to ruffle any feathers here, just expressing my opinion. 
PETA does actually put quite a few animals to sleep. Their purchase records are on public record, where you can find industrial freezers and euthanizing agents. When they go out and firebomb a humane society's director's house, it doesn't occur to them that the fact is that there are way too many animals and not enough homes. They aren't an organization set up to adopt animals out. A shelter situation isn't really possible, and those animals have to go somewhere. Something like 75% of the animals in PETA's custody are euthanized. (I don't know the exact figure off the top of my head, but I can look it up if anyone needs to know.) They think they're doing the animals some great favor by "liberating" them, when everything they do just makes other animal rights groups look bad.
I'll give an example. Near our home in Wisconsin several years back, there was a story in the paper about PETA activists breaking into a mink farm at night and releasing all the minks into the wild. (They were destined to be fur coats.) Well, these were farm minks, and therefore had never seen "the wild", and had no idea what to do in it. The vast majority of them were killed on a nearby highway. The rest were picked up by other predators and probably made a pretty easy meal. Now what kind of moron doesn't think something like that through?
There are other problems with PETA, such as their advocation of violent crime in the pursuit of their goal. The director of PETA was quoted calling one of her seasoned arsonists a "fine young man". This kid had been convicted of arson and assault several times. When he wasn't in jail, he was holding seminars on how to make small bombs, break into buildings, and set fires. (Apparently he didn't know how to set fires well, since he kept getting caught.) If it was up to this organization, there would be no animal research or even pets. No dogs for any of us if they had their way. They're strongly opposed to medical research on animals, but several of the "higher-ups" in the organization have long-term medical conditions that they treat daily with medicines that came from animal testing. One even has had an organ transplant, which was first performed successfully on a chimp.
You guys all know how nuts I am about animal rights. But there are ways to do things intelligently and ways to do things that make you look like an idiot. PETA practices the latter. Breaking into buildings and burning down the homes of humane society employees accomplishes very little in the grand scheme of the animal rights movement. What it does do is make the entire animal rights community look crazy. There are a TON of other organizations that are actually working hard in and with the system to win more and more protection for animals. PETA's not one of them.
I'll give an example. Near our home in Wisconsin several years back, there was a story in the paper about PETA activists breaking into a mink farm at night and releasing all the minks into the wild. (They were destined to be fur coats.) Well, these were farm minks, and therefore had never seen "the wild", and had no idea what to do in it. The vast majority of them were killed on a nearby highway. The rest were picked up by other predators and probably made a pretty easy meal. Now what kind of moron doesn't think something like that through?
There are other problems with PETA, such as their advocation of violent crime in the pursuit of their goal. The director of PETA was quoted calling one of her seasoned arsonists a "fine young man". This kid had been convicted of arson and assault several times. When he wasn't in jail, he was holding seminars on how to make small bombs, break into buildings, and set fires. (Apparently he didn't know how to set fires well, since he kept getting caught.) If it was up to this organization, there would be no animal research or even pets. No dogs for any of us if they had their way. They're strongly opposed to medical research on animals, but several of the "higher-ups" in the organization have long-term medical conditions that they treat daily with medicines that came from animal testing. One even has had an organ transplant, which was first performed successfully on a chimp.
You guys all know how nuts I am about animal rights. But there are ways to do things intelligently and ways to do things that make you look like an idiot. PETA practices the latter. Breaking into buildings and burning down the homes of humane society employees accomplishes very little in the grand scheme of the animal rights movement. What it does do is make the entire animal rights community look crazy. There are a TON of other organizations that are actually working hard in and with the system to win more and more protection for animals. PETA's not one of them.
Just because one is awful doesn't mean the other is any good! Faulty logic . . . PETA is now run by some very strange fanatics. Iams/Eukanuba is run by people who are only concerned about making the most money possible with the least amount of expense. One is just as bad as the other, and it's every bit as hypocritical for a company that claims to be manufacturing healthy pet products to be indulging in the types of invasive testing and cavalier treatment of animals as PETA's positions. Not to defend PETA's idiocies, but at least PETA has the bad excuse of being completely irrational. Iams doesn't even have that bad excuse.