PETA has arrived in Houston

[TexasBushwhacker]

To "rescue" animals.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Anyone who rescues animals is doing good. What's the problem?

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. PETA euthanizes 99% of the animals it rescues

[Johnny2X2X]

29. Lie

That is an absolute lie.

[cwydro]

30. Nonsense.

Why put this out there?

It's not true.

[USALiberal]

32. Most people saying things like this link to proof. Except you?? n/t

[sarisataka]

34. I have to agree with your critics somewhat

It is not 99%. However they are way far above any other group in euthanasia. 2013 was a good year where it was slightly under 75% of animals brought to them were killed.


The article this table comes from notes they adopted out 23 dogs and 16 cats in this year.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6612490

PETA usually is over 80% and has had years over 90% euthanasia rate.

[TexasBushwhacker]

35. I exaggerated. My bad. But their euthansia rate is way too high.

If they want to rescue animals in the flood and transport them to a shelter that specializes in adoption, I'll suppirt them.

[sarisataka]

36. Your 99% number was

Correct for animals they fail to adopt. I suppose some of the difference is sent to other shelters which as the article notes somehow managed to adopt out 90-plus percent of animals with a far smaller budget than PETA

I'm sure some of their rescues will be given to local shelters or transported to their home location but I expect it will be a miniscule percent that survive the "rescue"

[Not Ruth]

2. What is wrong with rescuing animals, they are more vulnerable than humans

[sarisataka]

16. PETA's "rescue" could also be called

'putting to sleep'. They will likely kill more pets than the hurricane.

[MFM008]

4. PETA

Has a tendency to euthanasia their animals quickly.
It's why I stopped supporting them.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. Yup

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/08/consumer-group-blasts-peta-for-euthanizing-high-rate-animals-at-its-shelter.html

[procon]

9. Fox News passes on a press release from the Center for Consumer Freedom?

Please check your sources:

The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) (formerly called the "Guest Choice Network (GCN)&quot is a front group run by Rick Berman's PR firm Berman & Co., originally primarily for the benefit of restaurant, alcohol, tobacco and other industries. It runs media campaigns that oppose the efforts of scientists, doctors, health advocates, animal advocates, environmentalists and groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, calling them "the Nanny Culture -- the growing fraternity of food cops, health care enforcers, anti-meat activists, and meddling bureaucrats who 'know what's best for you.'

"http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom

Google for more info on this rightwing, Fake News bunch, and stop spreading their bullshit.

[LisaL]

11. Is this better?

"In 2014, according to its own records, it took in 3,017 animals, about 1 percent of the total number brought to private Virginia shelters. Of those, PETA euthanized 2,455, or 81 percent. In some prior years, that rate has risen above 90 percent."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/at-petas-shelter-most-animals-are-put-down-peta-calls-them-mercy-killings/2015/03/12/e84e9af2-c8fa-11e4-bea5-b893e7ac3fb3_story.html?utm_term=.bcdcfb3a74b0

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. Google for the info yourself

Here's a report, straight from the state.

https://arr.va-vdacs.com/PublicReports/ViewReport?SysFacNo=157&Calendar_Year=2016

http://travel.barkpost.com/good/op-ed-peta-euthanization-statistics-2015/

Frankly, I do not adopt from "no kill" shelters because they put an extra burden on shelters that do euthanize. I also think an animal suffers when it's kept for years in a shelter and it would be better to euthanize unadoptable animals. However, PETA has an exceptiinally high kill rate in their shelters.

[lunamagica]

7. That's horrible! What's their excuse?

[LisaL]

10. It's not an excuse, it's a belief system. They think they are doing it out of compassion.

"I always wonder how anyone cannot recognize that there is a world of difference between painlessly euthanizing animals out of compassion—aged, injured, sick, and dying animals whose guardians can’t afford euthanasia, for instance—as PETA does, and causing them to suffer terror, pain, and a prolonged death while struggling to survive on the streets, at the hands of untrained and uncaring “technicians,” or animal abusers."

https://www.peta.org/blog/euthanize/

[lunamagica]

14. Well, I think it's cruel to kill a healthy dog. They take the easy way out. Hundreds of rescuers

take a long tome giving them vet care, shelter food and look for a home where they will be loved. I hope not many are "rescued" by them.

[MFM008]

18. Animals as pets

Is "animal slavery".
I guess to them it's better to be dead.

[lunamagica]

24. That is just insane.

[procon]

6. Whats with the "scary" quotes?

Are you asserting that PETA does something horrible with the animals they rescue? Speak up with some FAQs or delete this unfounded Fake News.

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. It's not fake news. In fact, it's pretty common knowledge

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6612490

[hamsterjill]

12. All other rescues have been onsite for a week.

PETA is not about the animals.

[cloudbase]

15. Save the sea kittens.

There are plenty here in Houston.

[jmowreader]

27. That would be one of these, right?

[yewberry]

17. I'm sure the animals (and people) they help in this disaster

appreciate your continuing support of right-wing corporate lobbyists!

[MFM008]

20. This pretty much comes

From Ingrid Newkirk herself.
They are about the politics.
I have no problem with that it's just you should be honest stop taking in animals just to put them to sleep because you think it's slavery for them to be pets.

[yewberry]

21. Pretty sure that your misguided criticism

will mean the world to the dogs, cats, chickens and people they pull out of the floodwaters.

[lunamagica]

23. And then kill them? GMAB!

[yewberry]

28. Yes, of course.

That's why they brought the thousand pounds of food and the flat-bottom boat. To kill them. It all makes sense now.

[MFM008]

39. What's the point

If they turn around and euthanize them
They make a good show much like blotus in the shelter yesterday.
It's all about politics.

[Me.]

19. Peta Considers Pets To Be Slaves

“Animals will never have the right to euthanize PETA's founder, Ingrid Newkirk. This, arguably, is the intellectual flaw at the core of her special interpretation of animal rights. For PETA, it is a political movement primarily focused on the right to determine when and how an animal should die. The decision is never reciprocal, however: Newkirk has the right to kill -- and PETA has killed tens of thousands of pets -- but her own life is protected by law.

People naturally assume that the animal rights movement is simply an extension of the human rights movement, and that it was developed by analogy. PETA's variant certainly employs some of the same language: they often refer to animal "slavery," and in fact recently attempted to use the 13th Amendment in a legal effort to free five orcas from SeaWorld.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/douglas-anthony-cooper/peta-animal-rights_b_1636097.html


“In a country that spends more than $30 billion on its pets each year and gets all misty-eyed over "Old Yeller," you really have to be an idiot to make affection for animals offensive. But that's what People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has done again, with their designed-to-shock traveling summer exhibit "Are Animals the New Slaves?"

By showing graphic pictures of lynchings and slavery alongside images of animals, the organization has unleashed a firestorm of bipartisan fury, while furthering one of the worst characteristics of this hyper-partisan era, the hateful hyperbole that threatens to make Holocaust, Nazi, and slavery comparisons a normal part of knee-jerk political discourse.”

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/petas-animal-slavery-insanity/18661/


“According to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA has euthanized more than 33,514 animals since 1998 at its Norfolk shelter. In 2014, the group euthanized 2,454 of the 3,369 cats, dogs and other animals there. Most were “surrenders” – pets turned into shelters by their previous owners. Only 23 dogs and 16 cats were adopted.”

http://certifiedhumane.org/does-peta-have-the-right-to-determine-whats-humane-considering-their-view-on-animals/

[Dr Hobbitstein]

22. Fuck PETA.

Animal murderers is what they are. Savages.

[longship]

25. PETA is the org that wanted Ben and Jerry's to make ice cream out of human milk.

Imagine the new B&J flavors:

* I Can't Believe it's not Mother

* Nipple Ripple

Etc.

Fuck PETA!

[Motley13]

26. I knew they were a littlle nuts, but had no idea they did this

I thought their thing was to protect animals. I know they are so against fur to wear & I agree

[yewberry]

31. It's not what people are making it out to be.

I'm not a huge fan of peta-type drama and their publicity stunts, but this thing about their euthanization numbers is a wild distortion.

Peta isn't an animal shelter in the way that most people understand them. They call themselves a shelter of last resort. There are different kinds of shelters: selective admission, open admission, and last resort. The selective-admission type (often no-kill) rejects unadoptable, sick, feral, or aggressive animals, or those that might be euthanasia candidates. Open admission shelters accept many that are rejected by selective-admission shelters (not all) but will humanely euthanize unadoptable animals. The last resort shelter accepts all animals and transfers adoptable animals back to open-admission shelters, and accepts animals for euthanization from both other types of shelters. That's why their numbers look so bad.

[Demsrule86]

38. They murder animals and have been known to take tags of and kill family pets...fuck PETA...terrible

organization...they gas thousand of animals. They nothing from me.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. remember when they protested the city of New York for trying to control the rat population?

good times.

[Demsrule86]

37. I dislike PETA as they kill animals.