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10-02-2009, 09:49 AM | #1 | |
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PETA Killed 95% of Their Pets Last Year
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10-02-2009, 11:13 AM | #2 |
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"Seriously, killing animals while advocating for treating them ethically is like hiring a bomb squad to disarm a bomb, then activating it in an orphanage.
Don’t support this practice."
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10-02-2009, 11:56 AM | #3 |
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While I generally make fun of PETA along with almost everyone else, I'm going to reserve judgment on this one. Googling only found that one source, plus the math doesn't work out.
If I've done my algebra correctly there were originally ~2236 pets (2124 being ~ 95% of 2236). 2236 original pets - 2124 killed pets leaves 112 not 7. I guess it's possible that the rest are still in holding but not placed. But the difference made me suspicious.
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10-02-2009, 12:04 PM | #4 | |
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10-02-2009, 12:11 PM | #5 |
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I dont particularly care about PETA one way or the other, but the source of this story is an innocuously named organization, Center for Consumer Freedom
The CCF is a front group for numerous industries, including beef/poultry who dont like PETA's position on regulating processing plants, restaurant/fast food industry who dont like PETA's position on menu lableing and industries heavily involve with product testing on animals. |
10-02-2009, 12:15 PM | #6 |
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I didn't do the math, but the numbers seemed off to me too.
However, there was a similar story about PETA killing pets a few years ago. It's been going on for a while. There's a thread here somewhere... |
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Oh...and the CCF is also funded by the tobacco industry which still does animal testing...hooking primates up to round the clock ventilation machines to "prove" no correlation between smoking and lung cancer.
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10-02-2009, 12:27 PM | #9 | |
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10-02-2009, 12:28 PM | #10 | |
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The website, PETA Kills Animals, is also a site of the CCF:
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10-02-2009, 12:35 PM | #11 |
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I don't care about CCF.
Are you saying PETA doesn't euthanize animals? Because their own website says they do. |
10-02-2009, 12:37 PM | #12 |
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Isn't that really true for most of these groups? I mean really what group is selfless enough to want to take care of or look out for others moreso than their own self interests, power and/or profits?
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My point is to not look at all allegations against PETA in a vacuum. |
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As I said, I dont particularly care about PETA one way or the other, but if I ran into a PETA person, I would say shame on you for your inhumane treatment of unwanted pets and thank you for your role in advocating stronger meat/poultry processing regulations and food/drug labeling...and you need to give a little on product testing on animals...it serves a purpose but should be regulated to ensure that it is done as humanely as possible. Last edited by Redux; 10-02-2009 at 12:57 PM. |
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