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Things started to Change with PETA
about the time Ingrid Newkirk took the helm. What bothers me most is their financial links to militant animal rights groups.
posted by
archiew
on June 19, 2005 at 6:57 AM
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I asked them that also, about the van.
But I never found out. They were supposed to do a press conference on Friday, but I never heard more. Check out the about me on that web site link you have though, and you'll see why it's so seriously slanted. PETA is extreme, and sometimes too extreme for me, but I believe they wouldn't let this go on. It's a big, national organization and sometimes there are still bad people that get in. I only wish they would explain it more. They may still be trying to sort it out or control the spin. Oh well, it doesn't stop the good stuff that they have done and the great no fur campaign they have going. I will have to just to believe it's a situation of a few bad seeds.
posted by
Temple
on June 19, 2005 at 12:07 AM
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Temple . . .
Your post came out fine and easily readable on my computer.
posted by
archiew
on June 18, 2005 at 11:45 PM
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Well Temple . . .
I, too, am an animal lover and used to support PETA. I live in Norfolk, VA, PETA's headquarters city, so the issue is in the news heavily here. Apparently, this has been going on in NC for weeks. Someone above the two who were arrested had to know, since someone was in charge of sending them to pick up animals. Why, if they did not condone it as an organization, did they not notice that the van they were sending to NC for animals always came back empty? That is only one of the discrepancies on this story.
posted by
archiew
on June 18, 2005 at 11:44 PM
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Sorry that is so wonky.
When I transfered it from my email the font size went all loopy and I thought it was fine, but apparently not.
posted by
Temple
on June 18, 2005 at 6:53 PM
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You are so off. Do you know why they euthanize animals?
They put euthanize animals in the way they do because in those areas many animals are shot in the head with a .22 or trapped in windowless gas chambers. They take them to their facilities and euthanize them the way it's done at your vet, humanely. I follow PETA, and I know they are radical. I don't believe in all the do, so I wrote them very angry scathing letter. I'll admit it's not a full explaination, but to go straight to condemning them is rediculous. They do more work to protect animals than any other organization on the planet. Here is what I received in response:
Thank you for contacting PETA about the euthanization of dogs and cats in North Carolina.
It is against PETA’s policy to put the bodies of animals in dumpsters, and we are appalled that a member of our staff apparently did that. There is no excuse for that and, despite the fact that she is a caring soul, we have suspended her from work.
PETA has always supported and spoken openly about euthanasia. It is easy to throw stones at those doing the dirty work for society, but euthanasia is a necessary evil until the massive animal overpopulation problem can be solved. We invite anyone who can offer a home to any animal, pay for one or a hundred spay/neuter surgeries, or persuade others not to go to a pet shop or breeder, to please join us in doing these things. In the last year, we have spayed/neutered more than 7,600 dogs and cats, including feral animals, many free of charge and all others at well below our own costs. Support for this program is much needed.
To clarify, we do not run an adoption facility, although we do place animals, approximately 360 in the last year, despite having run out of friends and family members to approach. We are a “shelter of last resort,” taking in and giving a painless death in loving arms to animals who would otherwise have been shot with a .22 or gassed in a windowless metal box, which is what happened in North Carolina before PETA offered free euthanasia services to agencies there. North Carolina has the second highest rate per capita of euthanasia in the country—35 animals killed annually for every 1,000 residents—and most do not die a humane death. Sadly, the shelters we work with have no adoption programs or hours set aside for adoption. At the Bertie County dog shelter, residents were throwing unwanted dogs over an 8-foot-high fence, where they became infected or injured by other sick or aggressive dogs from whom they could not escape. Bertie County also had no facility for cats and used to let them go to breed in the woods and fend for themselves until PETA built a shelter for them this year. PETA has begged for years, through formal proposals and numerous meetings to have the county allow PETA to implement an adoption program as part of a larger picture of sheltering that would also include a spay neuter program, a humane education program, 24/7 emergency services, and rabies clinics.
We try never to take in adoptable animals unless we know we have a home for them—only those who are mange-covered, have parvovirus, are injured, old, unsocialized from life on a chain, or unwanted and for whom there are no good homes available. We also work at the roots, spending more than $240,000 in one North Carolina county alone, to provide shelter in winter for animals left out in the cold, to spay/neuter, to get vet care for animals in dire straits, to send Bertie County’s one animal control officer to professional training, to pay a cleaner to maintain two shelters, and much more.
We have always outspokenly advocated fixing the problems of overpopulation through practical methods. Sadly, those stories don’t get coverage in the media.
We urge you to look closer and do your part to help us help these animals. For information and resources on how to do that, visit HelpingAnimals.com.
Sincerely,
The PETA Staff
PETA.org
posted by
Temple
on June 18, 2005 at 6:52 PM
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