Okay. I’m dumbfounded. A friend sent me this last week, because apparently a “PETA Kills Animals” website is advertising on a few of the same blogs as we are.
Is nothing sacred?
Granted, with all the celebrity retards People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) engages to hide the ball, month after month, I assumed there was some great secret behind the group. Like an X-Files episode gone bad, or a secret back-room sex cult.
But PETA Kills Animals? Really?
Here’s what the “PETA Kills Animals” website claims: PETA has killed 17,400 dogs and cats in the past nine years, and has a giant walk-in freezer to hide the bodies until a crematory service picks them up every month. In some cases, PETA employees have been convicted of tossing puppy and kitten bodies into trash dumpsters.
This just might be the biggest public hypocrisy story ever. You may as well tell me that Sean Penn is a raging capitalist, or that Alberto Gonzales carries an ACLU membership card.
I’m stunned.
Ordinarily, I would call “BS” on this whole thing. But they have legal documents. I did the math. It adds up to 17,400 dogs and cats.
Before any of you get on my case about pet overpopulation and the virtues of Bob Barker’s “spay/neuter” program, here’s my basic problem: PETA collects abo0ut $31 million every year. That’s around $2.6 million a month. Or $615,000 every week. With that kind of money, don’t you think they should be finding the odd stray kitten a home, instead of devoting so much of their income to hassling old ladies in fur coats? In 2006, PETA only adopted out 12 animals. The whole year.
I’m also not buying the line that every one of the pets PETA takes in is too sick or pathetic to adopt out. My sister once adopted a pit bull that was near death, and a white cat that was completely lost as a stray. It can be done.
If PETA’s not interested in this, then … WTF?
I’m just saying.
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PETA’s ultimate goal is “total animal liberation’ this means, no animals used for fur, food, amusement (ie zoos) or companion animals (ie your pet), and not even a seeing eye dog to help the blind. I’ve seen this site before, it’s somewhat old news. My interpretation of the whole thing is that because they don’t even want you or I to have a pet, they would rather ‘end their suffering’ by putting them down. That’s why i don’t donate cash to their cause. i would rather give it to my local SPCA.
J
I’m surprised this is news to anyone. Penn & Teller had a show on Showtime called “Bullshit”. They did a whole episode on this U.S. based terrorist organization. And that was about a year and a half ago. This episode is floating around the ‘net. I think you can still find it on Google Video. It’s worth watching if you’re on the fence about these lunatics.
I had a general sense that PETA was run by some odd misanthropes. But I really didn’t know they were running a puppy execution chamber in Norfolk. Yikes!
And here’s an update: The group behind the “PETA Kills Animals” website is asking the state of Virginia to “officially reclassify People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) as a slaughterhouse.”
Brilliant.
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/21
Where I learned all I needed to know about PeTA and ALF, no not the sitcom star from the 80s, the Animal Liberation Front.
I followed this story last year, when the two people accused of slaughtering all of those animals were on trial and finally sentenced, and this is one of the reasons I no longer support PETA. The other reason I became disillusioned with PETA is PETA2, their attempt to reach out to the “younger crowd”, high school and college students. Instead of presenting facts and stories with different views in order for the person to make an informed decision, they use rude language and scare tactics to convince impressionable young children to do their bidding.
PETA started out as a good idea, but it morphed into a horrible practice. If you really want to make a difference, go to your local SPCA.
Yeah, the PETArds are against the concept of owning pets. They want all domesticated animals to go extinct. Not really sure what that’s all about, but then who cares what a bunch of lunatics think?
Wow..i’m actually lost for words. From what y’all are saying PETA really are evil, if one can put it that way. I’d been loyal to the for about 2 years..since i became a vegaterian, but now i feel they’ve done us wrong. It’s true that they have PETA2, fro younger people and thats where i got stuck. My brother always tells me they’re trash and not to listen to them…maybe he is right. And all of yoo have helped me decide not to trust them any more. Thanks guys!
xx
If thats true about PETA, that they want no domestic animals, why is Pam a spokesperson? I’m pretty sure she has like 2 dogs or whatever… but then again i’m anti peta anyways
Okay, if you actually take the time to look at this website thoroughly, you’ll notice it’s being run by some sort of ultra-conservative lobby group. Apparently, the Centre for Consumer Freedom (who funds the website claiming PETA kills animals) also claims that Trans-Fats are secretly good for you, and all those thousands of nutritionists and scientists who have claimed otherwise are full of crap. As well, apparently obesity will not be one of the biggest drains on the American health care system in the next several decades….even though countless worldwide studies seem to suggest it will be a bigger killer than cancer. The CCF also denies the human link to global warming, the negative health effects of milk, and other very notable pro-corporate initiatives. Interestingly, these also tie into areas where the conservative government’s funding is not focused (ie. environment, health care, etc.), and would prefer to spend on military and big business corporate initiatives. Or conversely, areas which are greatly linked to corporate and governmental areas of interest (meat/dairy industry), something that runs a huge loss if threatened by consumer doubt.
PLEASE, for the love of God, look into these websites more thoroughly before you put up biased claims about organisations that are actually making a positive difference!!!! The CCF clearly has big-business in mind when it takes aim at PETA, since dairy farmers, meat producers, and all of those they supply (specifically fast food chains) have a huge loss to face when the public is exposed to messgaes about the negative effects of dairy and meat on the human diet (of which PETA is one of the few well known organisations making this info known). Of course they don’t want the public to think obesity is a huge health problem! They WANT you to keep eating Macdonalds mindlessly! To hell with health. And more profit for them. And the effects of transporting all of this cattle, and the massive amount of toxic methane released into the atmosphere from over-producing them??? Pshhhh. Ain’t no thing. Global warming? No way, man. It’s just something the liberals made up to freak you out. And hey, to keep this information down means we keep making huge profits. Win-win, right?
This is all info which is damaging to the corporations which profit from the public’s ignorance. And when true fact infiltrates our little lives (through organisations such as PETA), these lobby groups (like the CCF, who claim to have consumer interests in mind) will do anything, even slander good names, in order to keep their profits up and our level of awareness down. It’s f*cking ridiculous.
Kinda like the refrain “the terrorists hate our freedom”. Complete bullsh*t. But pretty much everyone swallows it.
PS- And oh yeah, those documents are incredibly easy to forge. Ask anyone with a pen, some paper, and Photoshop.
A few observations.
(1) There’s no way those are forgeries. The first couple are printouts from a government website. (Click here for the 2006 report, then click here for the 2005 report, and click here for the 2004 report). They appear to be on the level.
(2) I looked both PETA and CCF up on the Guidestar website (a very cool resource, by the way). PETA has about 7 times the money of the other group. I’m guessing that PETA could afford 7-times-more-expensive lawyers. If the PETA Kills Animals website were in the least bit libelous, don’t you think PETA would have sued them (successfully) by now?
(3) Personally, I don’t care where good research information comes from. The right question to ask isn’t “what’s in is for them?” — but “is it accurate?”
(4) A few weeks ago I e-mailed CCF and asked if they would tell me where the documents and photos om the website came from. Here’s the (unedited) reply that arrived the next day.
Many of you are completely misinterpreting what PETA’s goals are. Instead of continuing this senseless bander of speculation and misinformation I suggest you go to the PETA website and read what they actually have to say about things like, animal domestication in the long term. It is this kind of ignorant hysteria that marginalizes groups like PETA. I am by no means a hard core PETA supporter but I do believe in accurate information.
peta (people for the ethical treatment of animals)is the policical arm of the animal liberation front and the earth first movement, both known terrorist groups. if you want to know where the money goes, it goes to support the above named groups, and various policical action committees dedicated to the pru pose of changing this country, from a nation of free people with rights protected by the constitution, to an autocracy, where the people are no more than so many digits to be mannipulated,or erased, at the will of their social betters.
For all those who are skeptical about PETA’s killing animals (especially since most of the information comes through an ultra-conservative group that might have ulterior motives), research the topic. CNN’s Rick Sanchez interviewed PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk and asked whether the public would be surprised at just how many animals PETA “euthanizes.” Newkirk answered affirmatively. Also, you could verify the information by hooking a PETA intern up to a reliable lie detector. Great deceit involved here.
i think its high time fringe groups like peta and over-the-top right to lifers be brought back into the realm of sanity. to have an informed opinion and feel strongly about it is one thing. to terrorize and malign other individuals in the name of promoting or protecting one’s belief is totally another. if so many animals are being used for fur coats (which NOT everyone can afford so i cant see how such could be the case) that the environmental impact to the earth is challenged, i can understand and even endorse peta and similar efforts. otherwise, the group presents as a radical collective of (people) haters. where do animal rights begin and human rights leave off? do peta members eat eggs? what about steak? do they wear leather boots? how about cashmere sweaters? its all so ridiculous. i look forward to the day when such energy might be put to use defeating child abuse and world hunger and poverty and government corruption…instead of zealously pursuing the outing of those among us who are able or desirous to sport a fur.
To be fair, I doubt that any PETA employee would eat steak or eggs, wear fur or leather, or go to the zoo or circus. My limited sense of the movement is that these people are extreme, yet pretty consistent. But I wonder what happens when one of them is in a car accident and requires a surgery that was tested on animals? And what do they do when it comes to prescription drugs, pretty much all of which are required by law to be animal-approved before people try them?
actually, peta has nothing to do with the animal liberation front. sorry.
It’s a FACT PETA has engaged in the killing of animals. You have to understand PETA is NOT an animal welfare organization; it believes in the twisted notion of “animal rights.” They, like the HSUS and others of their ilk that animals are NOT to be domesticated for human use; it is akin to “slavery.”
So PETA’s killing of animals that could have been adopted out is entirely consistent with its twisted philosophical position.
That website is run by the government. This is not just a conspuiracy theory,. It’s part of Operation Backfire (http://www.nlg.org/news/statements/greenscare2006.htm). It’s meant to undermine the animal rights movement, just like they undermined the Black Panthers and the animal rights movement. The government has historically undermined political movements since the time of the abolitionists. They use the prejudice of the people to cultivate fear of the dissenters. How do you think they got away withy the Iraq war and the war of terror? It’s clear to anyone not blinded by government manufactured “patriotism” that you can’t fight terrorism with bombs.
Twisted? What the…? It’s TWISTED to oppose slavery? I see already that it’d be pointless to debate wiuth you about it. You’re no different from the slave owners of the plantations. You’re prejudice is unreasoned, and you can’t reason a person out of something they didn’t reason themselves into. You’ve been indoctrinated since birth, like KKK members, to hate, and you can’t even see it. We just want all life to be free, yet you call us terrorists. YOU’RE the ones enslaving and killing BILLIONS upon BILLIONS annually! Watch Link TV (DirecTV 375), and get some unfiltered media. Pull the wool from over your eyes.
Orwell is rolling is his grave…until every cage is empty.
PETA goes about their aims in much the same way as the Bush administration goes about enforcing “No Child Left Behind.” Kids must do better in school, or their schools will get no money. Schools force students with bad grades to drop out, thus making it appear as though the school is doing better, when all that has really happened is that some poor kid was condemned to a lifetime of working at McDonald’s. PETA claims to offer animals for adoption (and just how does that fit in with their whole “no domestication” policy?), but when those animals take too long to find owners, they kill them, just like most regular animal shelters. I’m a liberal, but I don’t care if it IS a conservative organization who is telling the world about this. It’s all true, there is plenty of proof for it, and any real animal lover should see PETA for the frauds they are.
link tv is not unfiltered, it just has British agenda instead of American. also comparing caring for animals who wouldn’t be able to care for themselves in the wild to SLAVERY and kkk is completely ridicilous and heinous. it just shows how close minded you, Eric Blaire, are. xx
To k:
PeTA has ADMITTED to their links with ALF. Heck, Newkirk published a delighted admission in her book. Be proud!
To Eric Blaire:
All media is biased to some degree or other. The National Lawyer’s Guild is most certainly biased, and even if I agree with their bias, it’s dishonest not to admit it exists. You have your perspective, certainly, but I notice you’re not actually denying any of the charges made.
Even if there is a government conspiracy fueled by violent action on the part of militant animal rights groups out to discredit those groups, that’s not proof that they’re manufacturing evidence. Lies can be fought. You aren’t providing proof to your point of view, you’re just shouting about them being wrong. Convince us.
@ The Oversneer:
FYI..Ingrid Newkirk, apparently, is an insulin dependent diabetic, so I guess that answers your question regarding whether they would would use life saving animal tested ( or in the case of insulin, animal manufactured) medicines and/or surgeries.
I used to believe in PETA but in the last 10 years or so the things that have come to light regarding PETA and their practices have been cringe inducing rather than awe inspiring.
Insulin is very rarely animal-manufactured any more. But yes, it will have been animal tested and all that jazz.
PETA certainly does “wrong”, meaning morally reprehensible acts, just like any large corporation that has an agenda. There is also the human factor, namely individuals that may or may not choose to react ethically in their professional and/or personal activities, including those that run centers for PETA.
However, in the overall scheme of this debate, is it inherently wrong to want to stop the abuse and suffering of other sentient, feeling, living beings that share our planet? I believe not. This is the thought behind PETA, and vegan mind-frames : stop causing needless suffering or abuse, choose the way of non-violence, of not harming.
Of course, this does not exclude using medications that are vital to your health, even if they have been tested on animals. It does mean that animal testing is an outdated, not overly reliable practice, as animal physiology is not a reliable basis for human exploitation. There are also issues concerning humane treatment of animals in drug tests.
This does not exclude eating foods you enjoy however it does ask you to questions HOW those foods are produced? It poses the question of how man – one of the only creatures on this planet that supposedly has access to abstract thought – is able to accept sub-humane conditions & treatment of animals that are raised in captivity solely to feed humans? There is overwhelming evidence concerning the unethical treatment of animals; evidence stemming from non-sectarian, non-vegan, non-PETA sources, that attest to these facts.
It doesn’t mean wasting something made from leather because overnight you have decided to become vegan…it means posing questions concerning your proper stance about animals and their treatment in our modern, industrial world…and making choices from there. Most vegans and/or PETA supporters would be thrilled to see meat-eaters question the food industry concerning animal treatment and meat preparations. If you are a meat-eater, curiosity would be a good thing, to know what you’re eating and to be proactive concerning your health.
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In this debate, it would be more beneficial to ask oneself is if it is acceptable to cause pain to a living creature that will feel and remember that pain? Think about it and you will see where these questions lead you to in your own personal garden. Many people have done this and they decided to change their lifestyle. There are many options available if one should choose a lifestyle devoid of animal products.
However, be aware that animal products are everywhere, as most vegans ARE aware, including the PETA “fanatics” we’re burning at the stake here, lol! The idea is not to be fanatic, however to live interactively and communicate with compassion toward all living things, including our fellow humans!
These questions in the end bring the debate to a more fruitful focus of moral stance than filling up “who dunnit” websites. People the world over will commit atrocious acts, be it in a prison, a PETA center, a school, family or even in a religious setting, as the many reports of torture and sexual abuse confirm. These are extremes. In our daily life we do not even imagine these atrocities arriving…and yes, there are abuses toward animals perpetuated over and over. These abuses are what drives certain people to make what they consider an ethical choice, namely to not support the organizations that profit and propagate these abuses…
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Let’s meet in our differences and understand each other, no?
Minneapolis:
“is it inherently wrong to want to stop the abuse and suffering of other sentient, feeling, living beings that share our planet?”
So, let’s end the suffering and detonate atomic weapons simultaneously wordwide, right? No, the ends do not justify the means. The methods employed by PETA is analogous to killing innocent people to end their suffering… and when their spokespeople promote violence and where animal products, they don’t do too good of job convincing people of their sincerity or sanity.
Anyone for protecting the fruits & vegetables??? Lopping the “heads” off lettuce & stabbing tomatoes until they bleed! Can it be proven that these creatures of “God” don’t feel pain?
If not, then maybe we as rational human beings who are superior should forgo digesting or abusing them. How dare we pen them up in rows or gardens they should go free into the wild.
When the wackos stop eating animals, fruits & vegetables I will end any consumption of animal flesh, until them… medium please.
By the way I ask any PETA advocate (check out People Eating Tasty Animals) would you trade the life of your child for a puppy?
In a fit of irony, PETA is vehemently opposed to the no-kill movement employed by some animal shelters, including the one I volunteered for. After comparing the conditions of my shelter with PETA’s descriptions, I have reason to believe that strawmen are used in their arguments.
Even then, sheltered pets have a 40%-50% chance of survival nationally, taking no-kill out of the picture, better than PETA’s 15% (or 3%, counting 2006 alone.)
To Mr. Blaire,
You can’t fight terrorism with bombs? Really? What would you do, fight them with love? Love them soooooo much that they’ll just change their bad ways forever and love us right back? And how is it better for a dog to be dead than part of a home? Life is a precious gift. Millions of animals would not have been born if not for human ownership. Do they not deserve to live? How do you know that my dog isn’t happy? Do you know her? Does she call you at home? And by the way, it’s none of your business anyway, because this is still America. You just can’t stand it, can you?
Killing animals to save them from suffering?
Are they sick with an incurable and painful disease? Because that may be the only way I could justify that. OR perhaps PETA’s ’shelters’ have such awful conditions that perhaps the animals ARE suffering, so they end their life to help them? Not sure.
The one thing I do know is, that MY animals are happy animals. Happier than they would be running free in the wild. Why? They are domesticated animals who love and LONG FOR human interaction.
I let my dog outside to ‘do his duties’ and AS SOON AS HE IS DONE…he is crying at the door to come back in. What does he do when I let him in? Go hide in a corner in agony and misery? NO. He comes and climbs onto my lap if I am sitting on the couch, or gets as close as he possibly can to me. He follows me wherever I go. If I leave the house, he is waiting for me at the door, excited to see me. He LOVES me and he LOVES the life he leads. He is not ’suffering’.
Most dogs/cats in these PETA ’shelters’ are the same. The just want to be loved and cared for. It is not the wild and a free life they need necessarily, although it is up to the owner to ensure these animals are in no way mistreated, caged constantly, or not fed or watered enough. Perhaps humans should have to apply for the right to own an animal, to ensure they are capable and loving parents to it, but the same could be said for the right to have a child. There are lots of unfit parents out there, but we don’t go take their kids away and kill them to end their suffering. I’m not saying PETA confiscates animals with homes, but even homeless animals would be happy if placed in a loving home. People hold the ability to abuse animals. It is sad, but that doesn’t mean that all pets are miserable. SO MANY lead happy and fulfilled lives because they are LOVED, not because they are FREE FROM SLAVERY. I don’t recall the last time my dog was FORCED to do anything at all to earn my love, food, shelter, or water.
I LOVE animals. I’m also a meat eater though. I do not hunt because I do not eat ‘wild game’. I think it is wrong for me to kill an animal for no reason. I do believe that corporations which raise/kill/sell animals for public consumption/use should be humane to the animals while in their care, while they raise them and in the manner in which they are killed. I know this doesn’t always happen, but perhaps that is what we should concentrate on then, and not protesting against leather, fur coats, fried chicken franchises, etc… Put up more of a stink for KFC to treat chickens more humanely then, and be taken seriously, instead of appearing psychotic by claiming that having pets is ’slavery’.
PETA is crap if they kill animals to ’save them’/'end their suffering from slavery’, and while this merely my opinion, I believe it 210%.
To any and all of you out there who truly believe all the crap PETA has been feeding you- domesticated animals could not EVER survive in the wild. Yes, there are feral cats and dogs, and thier average lifespan is less than TWO YEARS. Why? Because they succumb to disease, get picked off by TRULY wild animals, get hit by cars, and shot by farmers for killing thier livestock. A good portion of the reported “wolf” attacks on livestock are actually feral dogs.Of course, once a wolf gets blamed, the hunt is on to kill them, instead of looking at the real problem.
Also, if you look up the statistics on how long animals live in captivity compared to in the wild, you will find that zoo animals by FAR outlive thier wild counterparts. And I’m not saying that all animals should be in zoos, but our zoo systems have pretty good track records with breeding programs to save endangered species, too. An awful lot of animals would be completely extinct if not for the zoos that have figured out better ways to take care of them- even in the wild.
Peta has been behind all of the individual city bans on specific breeds of dogs, which they’ve labeled as “inherently dangerous”, such as pit bulls. IN those cities, if you possess a pit bull, it can be taken from you, and destroyed, even if it’s the gentlest animal in the world- just because PETA managed to get the ban in place. They’re working, breed by breed, to get these laws passed all over the US.Right now, they’re concentrating on reptiles- trying to get snakes banned as pets.
I’m a pet owner. I have snakes. I have ferrets(and yes, ferrets ARE domesticated animals, and have been for a VERY long time). And I have a dog. I also eat meat,and wear leather. And you want to know something? I have the RIGHT to do all of that.I live in a country that is SUPPOSED to be FREE. Groups like PETA have NO place interfering with that. If they want to do something about how slaughterhouses treat the animals they kill- fine. But, don’t come after good, loving, responsible pet owners because you have some kind of warped sense of what “slavery” is. I don’t force my ferrets to clean my house, nor my dog to do laundry. None of my pets is required to do anything other than be what they are. PETA, on the other hand, would have all of them dead- all breeds of domestic dogs, cats, ferrets, etc…would be extinct if they had thier way.
WHy don’t you ask a blind person how they could get along without thier seeing eye dog? How about asking a handicapped kid how well he/she would be able to do if not for thier service animals? Or ask a K-9 cop how much harder thier job would be without those dogs?Some handicapped kids would not even be able to attend school, if not for thier service dogs. And a lot of handicapped adults would have to live in facilities like nursing homes, if not for thiers.Are those dogs lives worth more than the independence they can give a person? I don’t think so, and neither do an awful lot of other sane people.
Eric, you can’t honestly say that animal rights activists want all life to be free. They don’t want humans to be free at all, they don’t even want us to have the same rights as animals.
Also, PETA does not want to set domesticated animals free, they want all domesticated animals to be destroyed, that’s why they do it themselves. It’s so hypocritical of them to show pictures of puppies and kittens on their website to lure pet lovers into donating them money when they actually want all puppies and kittens to die because they hate them and don’t believe they have the right to exist.
I came across this a little late, but wanted to say something. I love how PETA thinks that their way of thinking is whats -best- for these animals. How do they know that? Did the animals tell them? What right do they have to kill these animals just because they think death is better? Do i have the right to go into another country who’s people think differently then me, and kill them all because i think their way of life means they are suffering? That means death to them? Thats called murder. Talk about being completely vain. The amount of hypocrisy done by PETA is remarkable. Ingrid herself said she wont have kids because humans are a virus, and having kids is just vain. Really? So her way of thinking (a human way at that) is correct and she (as a human) knows whats best for animals? Yanno.. their company takes away space from animals. Their cars pollute the earth. Even their presents on earth takes space away from some animal. If humans are really part of the problem.. why aren’t members of PETA doing the animals a favor and committing mass suicide? Humans are less worthy then animals after all. So their own lives are worthless. Why do they keep living then?
The thing that i find the most upsetting is that PETA has a good idea. However.. their actions completely destroyed this idea. They have made a mockery of not only themselves, but do way more harm then good to animals. They are only part of the on going problem, instead of being part of the solution. They spend all their time complaining about mistreatment of animals, but do -nothing- to help any animal that is placed in their hands. Clearly death is the only peace any animal that comes in contact with humans, has. Death is not the proper way at stopping mistreatment to animals. Its the lamest, laziest, action done. Kill them instead of help them. It angers me to no end that PETA thinks this way. Can i go to their headquarters in VA and throw red paint on them and call them murders? Yanno.. maybe I’ll just go drain out all the blood from every animal they kill, and dump it all over every employee that walks into their building. Would they be so happy to have their own stupid tactics thrown back in their hypocritical,selfish and vain faces? Serves them right, and i think they should get retaliation for their murderous actions. They are no better then the people they attack.
I feel so sorry for all the animals that never had a chance at love, because of PETA killing them. My animals are loved, happy, and well fed. Maybe it was wrong to make animals pets, but you know what.. they are now.. and its our jobs as humans to love them and take care of them properly. Not kill them because they should never of been pets in the first place. PETA doesn’t care about the negative effects on the earth and planet, their views could have. How many animals might be dead now if it wasn’t for a Zoo having one, and learning about it to help all the others in world. How about the positive effects animals have on people? People who have pets are known to be happier, and more pleasant people. More understanding, loving and helpful to not only other people, but also to other animals all over the world.
I stop listening to a person or company when i notice their actions are nothing but spotlight driven and hypocrytical. PETA cares more about its message then it does about the animals on this planet. And the faster people learn this, maybe the faster PETA can stop their backwards, warped, way of thinking and help be part of the solution and stop being part of the problem.
pEta most certainly does kill animals,and it’s documented,taking socialized puppies and kittens and euthanizing them all while claiming they were placing them.
THAT incident should have put them out of business.
Hope the poor animals didn’t suffer during the process,or are PETA employees skilled at administering IV euthanasia ? or what method did they USE ?
A feew years ago JOHN ROBINS of the BASKIN,ROBBINS ice cream empire wrote a book DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA about strict vegetarianism which hey claimed was beamed to him by a giant talking cow and pig JUST WHAT WAS HE SMOKING BEFORE HE HAS HIS WEIRD DELUSIONS INTO INSANITY AND STUPDIDY? and then PETA wanting the city of FISHKILL N.Y. to change its name to FISHSAVE(STUPID NAME)and HAMBURG N.Y. to change its name to VEGGIEBURG(EVEN STUPIDER) or for the GREEN BAY PACKERS to change their name to PICKERS(PETA IS STUPID) and despite this there are still a few brainless hooywed wackos who donate to them and that includes PAMELA ANDERSON(DUMB,BUMB BLONDE)and ALEC BALDWIN(STUPIDER THEN EVER)Frankly if the animals ever see PETA comming they had better run and hide PETA KILLS ANIMALS
PEOPLE NEED TO BE CAREFUL AND AWARE! Why should our rights to have animals, eat the way we want, and have places like zoos be threatened? If PETA (and groups like them) get their way, then cities and towns will have laws that threaten our rights. I use the word “threaten” because look at the places that have already put laws of some kind into place.
Just so we’re clear – there’s a huge difference between “animal rights” that PETA espouses (including jargon like pet “guardians” not “owners” or even “caretakers”) and the “animal welfare” movement that the SPCA and no-kill shelters represent. Animal welfare is the responsible care of all animals (what’s best for the animals’ wellbeing). Animals rights is the legal and political positioning of animals as humans (or “slaves”) without regard as to what that means for the animals’ ultimate disposition (just think about it – you’d have to get a judge and a guardian ad litem for your pet before you could euthanize your old, sick dog because it would legally be a person and be entitled to months of hearings about what’s in its best interest while it suffers).
The “PETAkillsanimals” website is written in a ridiculously provocative manner, but the documents and photos are not propaganda, but primary sources. “PETAkillsanimals” is also up front about their biases and who supports them – another thing that PETA itself is not.
I don’t like a lot of things about the shelter system and I feel there are a lot of pet owners out there who don’t take their commitment to their pets seriously enough and don’t get me started on the puppy mill industry! But overall, the animal welfare movement is the only one that’s actually doing what’s best for animals in general and specifically for the animals in their care right now. I try to support my local no-kill shelters with donations and adopt whenever I can. I try to provide my pets with high quality food, good vet care, lots of attention and enclosures as large as possible. All I can do as a responsible pet owner is make their lives the best that they can be and when I make a commitment to an animal, it’s a commitment for life (not until I move, or until I get bored with the pet or it’s not a cute baby any more, or it has behavioral problems that I’m a direct cause of…)
One thing I find very interesting about all this is that the extreme right-wing organization that is publicizing the allegations against PETA (Obesity is good for you!) has only found the euthanasia incidences in one of the fifty states. If atrocities were occurring in other states they no doubt would have made it public. It is apparent this is an isolated case and not widespread policy and this agency with a dishonest agenda (Cigarettes are good for you!) has jumped on it.
If the allegations are true, I suspect that in that one state, some people with a misguided agenda gained control, and are in no way representative of the PETA organization. Interesting nobody in this blog has brought up this point until now. I think this situation is likely analagous to the ACORN situation where some bad apples reflected on an entire agency and some dishonest people twisted the facts to distort public perception of a decent agency.
Frankly, as a participator in some PETA protests in the past (namely, protest against the cruel factory methods against turkeys, cows and chickens), I find all this shocking and if it is as true as it appears to be, reprehensive. I am shocked because I have known many PETA activists, and any one of them would have been abhorred by what has been reported. The PETA people I have known were very sincere people and consistent in their lifestyles and would have never stood for the unnecessary killing of healthy animals. And not all PETA supporters are extremists; many would be happy to just see people going to a healthier lifestyle by eating less animals, or converting to organic and range-fed animal protein. Their objective is a better world, and as history has shown, shock value results in slow change. For example, it was once shocking that women would actually want to vote, or that blacks wanted to be treated as humans. I commend PETA for their shocking and offensive-to-many campaigns! That is the only way to wake up the herd to the blatant injustices in which they participate without questioning.
In addition, there are many inaccurate stereotypes of PETA people here in this blog. Sure, perhaps the official PETA stance is anti-pet, but I’d venture to say the majority of PETA members are not of that extreme opinion and are simply people that would like to see humans quit murdering sentient creatures for our own personal pleasure, especially since animal protein production is not necessary for human health, is exhaustive on the environment, and is connected to many human diseases.
Also, one writer claims that PETA is connected to Earth First!, who they claim is a “terrorist organization”. First of all, PETA is in NO WAY connected to Earth First!, which is a diverse organization which includes a lot of hunter types and omnivores, as well as vegetarians, and does NOT have animal rights as any remote part of their objective. Secondly, Earth First!, in their official objectives, states “No compromise in defense of mother earth!” and that violence against humans is totally rejected as a method. So, I would not include Earth First! a terrorist organization unless you consider destroying a tractor used to clear out the last remnants of old growth forest terrifying!
I was there when these guys first came to my county and did this they threw the dogs and cats into a dumpster behind a Chinese restaurant it almost ruined there business and their lives all i can say is F*** them PUS**AS*
Evil
TARDS
ANALLY
while they rot in jail!!!
Peta mite seem to mean well but they’re a bunch of bullshit. It takes a lot to be an animal activist and a hunter but if I (age 22) can understand the balance between conserving our environment and protecting our domesticated as well as local wildlife what the hell is Peta doing to educate there employees and why not educate our people old and young about these issues I mean the wildlife department does a great job educating hunters and we have respect for the land and what we kill. Does that make me a bad person that I kill what I eat? No it doesn’t what would make me bad would be taking them out of season or just for the trophy of the hunt that’s whack in my eyes. Now if its a half dead dog anyway you know hit by a car really fucked up yea I agree kill the thing but what they did is wrong. and Ive heard of people killing dogs in worse ways but they killed one or two suffering dogs not truck loads of dogs with no place to go.
The question was asked, who listens to PETA? Well, I can tell you that a LOT of your politicans are listening to them because PETA (and the H$U$) has a lot of cash to throw around buying your city council, county council, state reps to pass laws to try to eliminate or severely restrict breeders and pet ownership!
All of you might not know that a couple of California PETA nuts sponsored a bill, AB 1634, that tried to force mandatory spaying/neutering of all cats and dogs by the age of 4 months (later amended to 6 months), no exceptions. They said there was a breeders clause that would allow breeders to be an exception, but almost no breeders could ever qualify with the rules/regulations required. This was for the entire STATE of California! It almost passed! And, the sponsors admitted if it passed, they would go after eliminating the breeding of food animals next, ie chickens, cows, pigs etc. Now those who voted for this, were certainly influenced by the money of the animal rights people, NOT common sense or what the people wanted (approx 80% of the people were against this law)…finally it was defeated, but they promised to bring it back. And, if it had passed, there were said to be 11 other states looking to immediately pass a similar law!
Now, whether you agree with breeders or not, this is still the USA and we have freedom of choice here, you want a dog from a shelter, fine go get one, I want one from a breeder, fine, I get one of them. Not all breeders are bad, just a small percentage, like not all parents beat their kids to death, so we don’t use that as an excuse to eliminate being a parent state wide!
So, watch your city, county, state councils and reps too, because these PETA people are putting bugs in their ears, sometimes to pass laws allowing only TWO companion amimals of ANY type in a home…gee, you have 1 dog and 2 cats and a bird?? Well, you are immediately against the law and can be hit with a big fine and have your “extra” animals confiscated!
PAY ATTENTION to these groups people, they do NOT have your interests at heart, and I think we all know how dumb our elected reps are when money is thrown at them! Pay attention to what is being passed by your elected leaders as I can tell you these things get passed in the dark of the night so no one can see the sleaziness of the leaders who vote for such things.
Plain and simple:
PETA is a terrorist group -http://www.animalscam.com/references/peta_rodney1.cfm
PETA killed over 90% of the animals brought to them in the last 5 years -http://www.petakillsanimals.com/downloads/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf
July 1998 – Dec 2003: PETA killed over 10,000 dogs, cats, and other companion animals at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters.
PETA supports terrorists – http://www.activistcash.com/organization_blackeye.cfm/oid/21
If this isn’t enough for you to see what’s going on… I feel sorry for you.
Thousands of Parrots are now endangered in the wild from Americas thirst to own and keep them as pets.
Thousands of Parrots are now pulling there feathers out and are sitting at shelters and or rescue facilities here in America.
Thousands of Parrots die each year from neglect and improper care.
Thousands of exotic parrots now thrive in the wild here in the USA and many are being mass poisoned by Americans.
Second Chance Bird Rescue recently voted against a bill that would end Parrots being kept as pets.
Now where do all those Dogs, Cats and Birds come from, why are there so many animals at shelters.
It seems to me…its okay for Americans to deceive and turn there backs unto there pets….but its not okay if Peta does so…..where did ya get all those animals from PETA?
Oh I love my dog….I simply love him……2 years later…I have to find a new home for him, just don’t have the time to spend with him anymore…..so much for love…..
We just love our cat….oh no….she peeing all over the place….time to get rid of her.
Don’t just love our new bird, he’s the best…6 months later, My bird is biting me and screaming….Its time to get rid of him….
Hi everyone. All of this is correct information. I can HONESTLY say I worked for PETA for almost a year. I have been a vet asst for many years and im almost ashamed to even admit that the only reason I applied there was because the pay and benefits are GREAT. I started to notice way to many things though that didnt sit quite right with me.
To answer some of the above questions: a SMALL percentage of PETA employees really only stay there for the money.
They really dont eat meat in the building or any other animal product for that matter.
Most of the PETA freaks are brain washed.
The only normal people I really saw were the computer IT guys and the Spay/ Neuter clinic people.
They really are a bunch of hypocrits. I had a meeting with my 2 bosses trying to explain my concern about the fact that more and more animals are dying on the vans lately. They are dying because of a lack of staff. Surgery is nothing to joke about. Recovery from surgery is the most important time to pay attn to the animals because that when most complications occur but instead of focusing on the animals they have us focusing on paperwork. So some persons poor animal that only came in for a low cost surgery is now dead. Its getting worse everyday. When I told them this they laughed in my face!! You know why?? Because they dont care that that animal died! They think that was the nicest thing that could have happened to it!
So needless to say I no longer work for PETA. My morals are much better than that!
PETA is run by LUNATICS!
To me….. PETA means People Eating Tasty Animals.
I’m gonna go home and have a big rib steak for dinner tonite.
My small way of giving this over the top radical group the middle finger they deserve!!!
Just so you all know since some of you mentioned giving them money–the SPCA kills TONS of animals. Tons!!! Our local SPCA was horrible and when locals complained about their unethical behavior their solution was to close our facility, leaving our area with no animal shelter at all!!!
So, if you’re thinking about donating to the SPCA, you might want to reconsider. There are tons of animal rescues that are no-kill who could really use donations. The SPCA is just another large group that’s gone awry.
pETA opposes killing rats becuase PETA are a bunch whos IQs are below a ants or fleas and rats are cuasing devistaion to bird collonies on these islands PETA has been watcing du,b movies like RATOVILLE and FLUSHED too many times
For more on these freaks just google -peta, ice cream, human milk- . That’s right, these freaks want to replace ice cream made from cows with breast milk. Bunch of freaks.
Since “Deceiver” aims at outing hypocrites, everyone reading this article should know that PETAkillsanimals and the Center for Consumer Freedom are funded by Philip Morris, Outback Steakhouse, KFC, and other traditional people-and-animal killers.
In fact, PETAkillsanimals.com was created back in 2004 by the Center for Consumer Freedom.
ugh i hate peta. all those lies they say. i really agree that they should search for feral animals and not waste their money on sex commercials saying “vegetarians have better sex”. maybe vegetarian is sexier, but is it smarter?
I have always gone against PETA. This just straightens my belief, cats have been domesticated back in Egyptian times, I see no problem in this: feeding, housing, and loving animals with nothing in return from the animals but love. I think anyone that truly cares for animals would agree that this is a good thing. I also don’t think zoos are bad, they protect endangered animals and most, I know not all, of the zoos take care of the animals very well. Of course I also don’t see anything wrong with eating meat, wearing fur, or hunting animals. If we use all of the animal (as in eating meat and using fur, not just using fur)I think nothing is wrong with using animals. My opinion about animal testing is different from most too. I could really get in debates with people, and have. PETA is defiantly hypocritical, saying not to use animals for things that improve life substantially, but instead killing and tossing the bodies without making the lose of the animals useful.