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Published on Jan 30, 2015
Every year, PETA releases a report showing how many animals were taken into our shelter and what became of them. Please watch this video, and share it with a friend.
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bananas
(27,509 posts)Over at conservativecrackpots.com they really hate PETA.
CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)Peta must be doing something right because they're pissing off all the right people.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Lunabell
(6,082 posts)https://www.petakillsanimals.com/proof-peta-kills/
http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?cat=10
http://hamptonroads.com/2014/11/man-says-peta-took-his-dog-porch-killed-her
This is the real deal: http://www.hopeforpaws.org/
swilton
(5,069 posts)Thank you Peta
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)This is the data from just one state on the number of animals PETA has killed. As you can see they were operating as a pet "shelter" taking in surrendered pets from owners and killing almost all of them.
https://arr.va-vdacs.com/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2010
https://arr.va-vdacs.com/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2011
https://arr.va-vdacs.com/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2012
https://arr.va-vdacs.com/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2013
https://arr.va-vdacs.com/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2014
By contrast, the Lynchburg Humane Society, also in Virginia, took in about the same number of animals as PETA but saved 94% and without PETAs millions. Seagoville Animal Services in Texas took in 1/3 of the numbers (about 700 animals) but only 1/20th of 1% of the amount of money that PETA did, saving 99% of them on a paltry $29,700 budget. In fact, hundreds of cities and towns across America are saving over 90% of the animals and doing so on a fraction of PETAs wealth.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/05/pets-shelter-euthanization-rate_n_6612490.html
Omaha Steve
(99,658 posts)PETA has more problems than this. I agree. They have also done good things too is the reason for the post.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)But the video you posted came straight from PETA and I just don't trust them to produce anything other than propaganda.
CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)Are then not entitled to tell their side of the story?
They are under constant attack by front groups for big agribusiness. You know, like the very same one whose links you keep posting.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Either explain what the differences are between these two documents, or stop being so butthurt over getting called out for ad hominem.
https://www.petakillsanimals.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf
https://arr.va-vdacs.com/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2010
Please tell me you are just being obtuse. I'd hate to think this isn't deliberate for your sake.
You can say this isn't ad hominem till the cows come home, but when the source POSTS THE EXACT SAME INFORMATION as what comes directly from the STATE OF VIRGINIA, then you are simply making ad hominem, and not even good ad hominem but rather completely obvious and not just a bit ridiculous ad hominem.
Cheers!
CrawlingChaos
(1,893 posts)Linking to vile front groups for the most evil industries out there, and trying to pretend there's nothing wrong with that. It's disgraceful.
I'd be embarrassed if I were you.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)You really crack me up. A screen capture from a state of Virginia website, which I PROVED came from that website = "carrying water for some of the most evil interests out there".
Here it is again, just cuz you ain't gonna run away from it:
https://www.petakillsanimals.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf
https://arr.va-vdacs.com/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2010
Meanwhile when faced with the PROOF that PETA slaughters thousands of pets each year, some of them evidently stolen, you still think PETA isn't evil. If this wasn't enough, they just teamed up this year with serial torturer Arpaio.
So you might want to look in the mirror and figure out whose water you're carrying.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)There's a hell of a lot of money out there from corporations that want to see them gone.
And if anything sounds like propaganda, it's the anti-PETA pressit seems so obvious to me, it's painful.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)in order to counter the "anti-PETA press" reporting on what they actually do.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/05/pets-shelter-euthanization-rate_n_6612490.html
I suppose it makes perfect sense if you think about it. Worked great for the GOP and Joseph Goebbels so you can't say it doesn't work.
william cail
(32 posts)PETA is a supporter of domestic terrorism and euthanize adapotable animals.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_for_the_Ethical_Treatment_of_Animals
If one support PETA one support domestic terrorism. Help animals by supporting ASPCA and no kill shelters.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)I'd say support rescue organizations (reputable individual-based). There's a lot of folks who put time and money into rescuing cats, dogs, etc from "no kill shelters."
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)A shelter run by the Lynchburg Humane Society rescued 94% of the pets they took in. Meanwhile in the same state and same year, PETA's shelter slaughtered 81% of the animals they took in, and that was actually a low year for them.
PETA:
https://arr.va-vdacs.com/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=157&year=2014
Lynchburg Humane Society
https://arr.va-vdacs.com/cgi-bin/Vdacs_search.cgi?link_select=facility&form=fac_select&fac_num=149&year=2014
truth2power
(8,219 posts)I used to think that was the case, but not anymore. I've posted about this, on DU before and got lots of vitriolic responses, so I don't intend to argue it again. People either get it or they don't.
After my two dogs passed on I decided, after a while, to look for another dog. I started making the rounds of rescue organizations and came to find that most of these people are bat-shit crazy. Instead of facilitating the adoption of dogs (and cats) they do whatever they can to impede the process. I have absolutely no complaint about having someone come to my home and look at what accommodations I have, or checking with my vet, or asking for references, and assuring that the dog is spayed/neutered.
But what I've come to find out is that there is a movement (started in California, according to a vet I talked with) that it's some sort of sin to own a pet. We are to be their guardians. Guardianship has a specific legal meaning, whether one wants to admit it or not. For the sake of brevity I won't go into the issues this raises; one can look it up. The American Veterinary Medical Association is opposed to this, for some very good, stated, reasons.
As a result, I've burned my bridges with just about every local rescue organization because I am impertinent enough to argue about the rules they think they can enforce. One woman said, "our rules require that you supervise your dog when it is in your fenced back yard." When i asked for her definition of "supervise" she said that it means to stand at the door at all times. When i asked if one could go to the bathroom, she said yes, but it would have to be a quick trip. I refuse to participate in this kind of nonsense.
Rescue organizations are driving potential dog owners to breeders and even to Craigslist, which is where I intend to go.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Local municipal shelters and those run by humane societies usually aren't that bad. I haven't dealt with the SPCA in about 20 years, but they were good the last time I used them.
This nonsense about it's a sin to own a pet isn't anything new. PETA has been involved in it under the table for decades, which is why their shelters kill about 85-95% of the pets they take in. The reason is simple. Dogs and cats eat meat, and there's just no way around it, so off to the rainbow bridge they must go.