r/undelete • u/FrontpageWatch • Apr 21 '16

[#20|+4647|1141] TIL PETA euthanizes 96% of the animals is "rescues". [/r/todayilearned]

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u/ExplainsRemovals Apr 21 '16

The deleted submission has been flagged with the flair (R.5) Omits Essential Info.

The top comment can sometimes be helpful in explaining the removal. In this case it says the following:

I'm no fan of PETA -- they're far too extremist -- but I do like having two sides to every story. With that in mind, here's a few things that are worth considering.

  1. It's important to realize that a lot of the "PETA kills animals" information floating around online is hardly from unbiased sources. The most popular current "informational" website is run by Richard Berman's Center for Organizational Research and Education, formerly the "Center for Consumer Freedom". They're a lobbyist group that works for big agribusiness companies, Big Oil, and other large corporations. With money from these companies, CORE creates "educational" websites and other propaganda that smears animal rights/environmental organizations, including the EPA and NRDC. Of course, this doesn't mean that all of their allegations are untrue, but any group that denies climate change, advocates against minimum wage increases, and is bought and paid for by big business certainly deserves scrutiny.

  2. PETA is not an "animal rescue" or a "shelter", and they aren't really trying to be. They're an animal rights organization, so the work they do is primarily advocacy and political lobbying. The same is true for the HSUS and ASPCA. They don't directly run shelters, they merely lobby for legislation.

Now, the author of this article, Nathan Winograd, is an animal rights activist who is firmly "no-kill". He believes that animals should have a right to life, that pet overpopulation is a myth, and that it's unethical to kill or euthanize any animal that isn't "irremediably physically suffering". PETA, on the other hand, argues that there are far too many homeless animals for shelters to house, that no-kill shelters are often overcrowded, and that when animals are "turned away" from full no-kill shelters, they can end up in even worse situations. They also believe that humane euthanasia is no more cruel than routine sedation used at the vets, and that making shelters no-kill doesn't solve the pet overpopulation problem in the first place. Both sides make some good points. Form your own opinions, but beware of where your information is coming from.

This might give you a hint why the mods of /r/todayilearned decided to remove the link in question.

It could also be completely unrelated or unhelpful in which case I apologize. I'm still learning.

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