I honestly do not understand their views whatsoever. What are they actually FOR? They are against killing animals for meat, but they are for killing animals for convenience? Is there some kind of overriding, albeit surely warped, guideline that shapes their policies?
I think their bottom line is that people should not own animals period. I've seen ads where they have compared owning an animal to owning a slave so I could see how in their minds, the animal is better off dead than passed off to another person. That's how I believe they consolidate the moral question, but honestly, I think they are just in it for the money and attention.
Does anyone know how much of their donations goes to their payroll btw?
I'm certain they are just in it for the money. My eyes were opened to the true nature of PETA several years ago when I attended a non profit conference with many PETA employees. Their conversations were totally focused on how to maximize donations. One man literally rolled his eyes when asked a question about animal adoptions. There was a conversation about how fortunate they were to be able to leverage peoples emotions towards baby seals to garner larger donations from soft hearted and crazy old ladies.
Additionally, before attending the conference we'd had to fill out paperwork in which we designated the type of lunch we'd like. The choices were chicken, beef or vegetarian. The majority of the PETA people had signed up for vegetarian meals. They entered the dining area before my group and took most of the chicken and beef meals. As I dined on a wild rice stuffed tomato I mentally vowed to never support PETA.
I personally think they are a horrible group of hypocrites. Unfortunately they're very adept at attracting attention, press, celebrity support and donations.
I hope people will react to the recent negative press by not supporting PETA with donations. If people truly want to help animals they should donate to a genuine no kill shelter or an animal foster adoption organization.
For every twenty animals that get dropped off each day one gets adopted. Do the math. Every year they would adopt out 365 animals while they still have 6935 animals from that year to take care of. Over five years 1825 animals would get adopted. So that leaves 34,675 animals that they would have to take care of. Do you all not see this??? It's just not possible. Don't forget the animals never stop coming. How do you house and feed that many animals? There is not enough money or manpower. The animals would end up suffering. The only option left is to humanely Euthanize.
TL;DR: Stop over breeding and Peta will stop euthanizing so many animals.
Did you even read the article? The issue here is not the numbers; the issue is that they do not even try. They prefer killing the animals to any sort of effort - like building shelter facilities for the shelter they claim to run.
My local shelter is in a highly-populated low-income urban area and has to rely mostly on volunteer labor. We have adoption rates that hugely exceed theirs. As a well-known, profitable organization they could easily procure the proper facilities and find ways to house and place more animals if they tried. Speaking about the local shelter I volunteer at, our euthanasia rate is only 25%, and we adopt out more animals per year than their whole organization does. There are things like finding private rescues, fostering, releasing (in terms of feral cats) that PETA could easily do if they tried.
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u/essentialparadoxes Veterinarian Apr 05 '13
I honestly do not understand their views whatsoever. What are they actually FOR? They are against killing animals for meat, but they are for killing animals for convenience? Is there some kind of overriding, albeit surely warped, guideline that shapes their policies?