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In reply to the discussion: PETA Is Not the Enemy. [View all]OwnedByCats
(805 posts)Ad campaigns that make animal rights advocates look like raving lunatics that offends most normal people's sensibilities, euthanizing of MOST animals they "rescue". I find it hard to believe all those animals were either too aggressive to be rehabilitated or dying anyway of terminal illness. There have actually been court cases against members of PETA for dumping euthanized dogs and cats in dumpsters around the city. DUMPSTERS. Not only illegal, but it's down right disgusting and disrespectful. Those animals weren't garbage and they shouldn't have been treated as such. It was just cheaper than actually getting them vet care, rehabilitation if needed and rehoming them. Gotta have enough money for those lovely ad campaigns, right? Oh and they bought a huge walk in freezer the size of a large walk in closet for one of their locations. Care to guess what that was for? Certainly not to store their frozen microwave vegan lunches.
I do not know if PETA still does that, but it has been documented that they have. When I was a teenager and started getting memberships to organizations like PETA, they seemed ok back then. Yeah they had some videos of under cover investigations that showed cruelty that were upsetting to watch, but their ad campaigns were relatively mild. Eventually they went off the deep end ... big time. They want the complete liberation of animals, do you know what that means? Ideally, no animals to be kept as pets. Just let them go out on their own. You can't do that with domestic animals. Can you imagine all cats and dogs released to the streets? They would end up dead. Either by cars, wild animals, starvation, disease, people who shoot them because they are sick of the cats defecating in their gardens, and people would have to round them up and cull them because populations would be enormous. A huge feral cat and dog population would occur. One way or another, they would die. If you want to help animals financially, donate to your local no kill shelter or to those who foster. The money will be much better used.