"This should be on billboards across the country."
Listen, I have said this on many other threads... I hate PETA for a million reasons, for their support of terrorism, for their attack on medical research, etc. but they do not hide the fact that they, like almost everyone else in this country, support the euthanasia of animals. Most Americans would not find it hypocritical at all that the euthanasia of unwanted and suffering animals is the "humane" option so I WISH that people started focusing on PETA's true crimes instead of this red herring. Here is a quote from a PETA spokesperson in the article linked on Drudge....
"A PETA spokesperson told WAVY News 10 that the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has a long-standing relationship with shelters to euthanize pets that the shelters feel are no longer adoptable, and the spokesperson is confident the animal cruelty charges will be dropped."
See... it is a long-standing relationship they have with local shelters.... how can this be something in PETA's close when they are so public about it?
Look, all I did was Google "PETA, euthanasia" and the first result was not Petakillsanimals.com but peta.com.... you guys are barking up the wrong tree here. Think of their real crimes.
http://www.peta.org/mc/factsheet_display.asp?ID=39
snippet:
Euthanasia: The Compassionate Option
Approximately 6 to 8 million animals are handled by animal shelters in the United States each year. Even though some are reclaimed or adopted, nearly 4 million unwanted dogs and cats are left with nowhere to go.(1) Shelters cannot humanely house and support all these animals until their natural deaths—they would be forced to live for years, lonely and stressed, in cramped cages or kennels, and other animals would have to be turned away because there would not be room for them.
Turning unwanted animals loose to roam the streets is not a humane option. If they don’t starve, freeze, get hit by a car, or die of disease, they may be tormented and possibly killed by cruel juveniles or picked up by dealers who obtain animals to sell to laboratories.
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I am just afraid if we don't attack PETA on the merits (fighting medical research, hurting agricultural industries, etc.) we might lose the ears of people....
Me too, but I think that this is a story people understand. Killing puppies elicits an emotion. Threatening a faceless doctor on the other side of the country doesn't get people inspired (or mad....)
Same reason that Bill Clinton got impeached. There were 100 better reasons to do it, but Joe Sixpack doesn't understand selling nuclear secrets to China. He does understand a quickie in the Oval Office. Unfortunate, but true.