Posted on 06/14/2005 9:20:42 AM PDT by Still Thinking
Our newest website, PetaKillsAnimals.com (as well as the Times Square billboard announcing it), has apparently caused a stir in the ranks of animal rights activists. Over 500,000 people have visited the site since its launch five weeks ago -- among them some die-hard PETA supporters. At least they were PETA supporters.
PETA's own members-only message board in Louisville, Kentucky has been abuzz lately with a discussion of our disturbing findings. One activist writes:
My Grand Son brought this site to my attention, if what they put forth is true it is very disturbing 5 animals a day killed at PETA HQ??? Can this be true?
Bruce Friedrich, the PETA campaign director best known for advocating arson in the service of animal "rights," fired back:
Where do people think animals go when you bring them to the shelter and there are not enough homes for them? Our euthanasia rate is lower than most shelters ... I am amazed at our placement rate!
But judging from the reports PETA filed with the state of Virginia, the group only placed 14 percent of its animals in adoptive homes during 2003, killing 85 percent (rounded figures). By comparison, consider two shelters close to PETA's headquarters. In that same year, the Norfolk SPCA placed 73 percent, and the Virginia Beach SPCA had a 66 percent success rate.
A follow-up posting from the Louisville contributor takes PETA to task for spending its riches on cheap publicity stunts while apparently ignoring the flesh-and-blood animals entrusted to its care:
... I would think that PETA would endeavor to be the shining light, but no. And Bruce I don't give up animals to the local shelter and I do live in a rural area. Difference is I give a damn about them ... You don't. You shout about the chickens but apparently when it comes down to the grunt work it's easier to just kill em.
You people are sick. You are going to tell us that with your network you can't place the critters that come to your door?? COME ON. I place them in a rural environment and you can't?? You are either a fraud or just a bunch of [expletive deleted]...
Louisville isn't the only place where disillusioned former PETA supporters are coming out of the woodwork. We've received countless e-mails about our website, including these gems from thoughtful Americans who will be using the next PETA fundraising letter to line their bird cages.
From "Linda":
Being an animal activist myself, I was extremely mortified to find out, years ago, that PETA actually advocates the wholesale slaughter of feral cats. I have written them personally to ask about it and found it to be true. This is certainly not an example of "ethical" treatment of animals.
From "Taysia":
Wow, I'm so glad I was told to go to this site. I am absolutely disgusted at PETA and I'm disappointed at myself for ever going along with them. Thank you for opening my eyes.
From "Dalton":
I am very concerned after reading your PETA article. I have donated to them in the past, not knowing they were killing animals ... If what you say is true no more donations from me.
From "Tracy":
I have been a member of PETA for many years, and the story I just read on your site is very disturbing ... [T]hey will never get another cent from me.
And from "Antonie":
When this gets out [PETA's] support will go down fast.
petaphiles.
Not to mention they support people who "free" animals like minks from farms to run in the wild, where they die. This does not seem to bother them.
Enviros do not seem to mind animals being killed or trees being destroyed as long as no one gets any benefit from it.` They don't mind forest fires wiping out entire forests as long as no human got to cut a tree in it.
They don't understand, nature is savage. It is not "peaceful".
I like it when they send out their best babes to get naked in public to protest fur. They seem to do this annually in front of Nieman Marcus in Beverly Hills.
Other than that they're profoundly idiotic.
PETA's beliefs lead to a paradox they can't resolve: They claim to think we are morally equivalent to animals ("A pig is a rat is a dog is a boy."). But animals kill each other for food and for other reasons, so if we're just another animal, why can't we be the baddest animal on the block and do what the other animals do, only be better at it? When they seek to impose moral guidelines on our treatment of animals, they implicitly admit that we're on a qualitatively different, and higher, plane. So which is it gonna be, petaphiles?
Will you serve dogdogs as well?
And when you ask for a doggie bag - it really is!
Fertilizer transpires?
"You are either a fraud or just a bunch of [expletive deleted]... "
Narrows down the options. But that's what I've always thought about PETA.
A couple I know relocated from W.VA. 20 years ago, he's reminiscent of Cousin It, fine commercial cabinet maker; she cute 5'2" full bodied. Married forever, the nicest people. Lost one of their three beloved dogs to happy extreme old age and they wanted another one. The Humane Society here in Lauderdale after several congressional committee investigations would not let them adopt. Some of these folks are zealots to the faith of having their heads up their ***!
**it happens
Yes... they are hypocrits when it comes to cats....just like your local animal care and control---they just kill them...healthy or not.
You're absolutely right.
Same thing applies to the "natural vs. artificial" debate.
If mankind is just another type of animal, everything we do is inherently "natural" also. A human-built dam is just as natural as one built by beavers.
A similar contradiction that never seems to bother those who hold it is the absolutist nature of PC, held generally by those who claim there are no absolutes, that everything is relative.
Did the humane society justify the decision with some rationale, or just say they couldn't have the dog, and that's that? If they did provide a rationale, what was it?
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