Friday, June 24, 2005
Poopin' On PETA
Remember those PETA people that got arrested for animal cruelty? Well, they've really stepped in it -- they are getting attacked from all sides.
Real Clear Politics carried a piece yesterday that revealed much."
A commenter on my post about this Monday says so much with so few words
Real Clear Politics carried a piece yesterday that revealed much."
In 2003, PETA euthanized over 85 percent of the animals it took in," said a press release from the lobby, "finding adoptive homes for just 14 percent. By comparison, the Norfolk (VA.) SPCA found adoptive homes for 73 percent of its animals and Virginia Beach SPCA adopted out 66 percent."Turns our some animal shelters were sending them animals, thinking they were being adopted instead of euthanized -- but not anymore.
The center's David Martosko considered PETA's hefty budget -- reportedly, $20 million -- and many contributions from well-heeled Hollywood celebrities, then figured, "PETA has enough money in the bank to care for every unwanted animal in Virginia (where it has its headquarters) and North Carolina."
Except PETA apparently prefers to spend donations not caring for flesh-and-blood animals entrusted to it, but on campaigns attacking medical researchers, meat eaters or women wearing furs. It is as if PETA prefers the idea of animals to animals themselves.
A commenter on my post about this Monday says so much with so few words
They are better off dead.That may be the sickist, most morally twisted statement I have ever heard. Of course I don't accept that "pet ownership is slavery" but let's buy the premise for a minute -- by this logic in the 19th century, rather than help the Underground Railroad, we should have killed escaped slaves! I no longer have any trouble understanding how a nation like Germany could go as wrong as it did prior to and during WWII.
Pet Ownership is Slavery!!!
