PETA bad people?

I usually(?) don't put ''political'' things in my blog. But, as Ani DiFranco and other folks have pointed out, basically everything you do (...or neglect to do), and say (...or are afraid to say) is political.

So:

According to http://www.thisistrue.com/peta.html -- and yes, I've checked this against snopes.com, and it doesn't appear to be an urban legend -- PETA are bad people.

Apparently, PETA picks up animals from local animal shelters, promising to find good homes for them. Instead, it kills 'em and dumps them in dumpsters. And their nat'l headquarters accepts this behavior.

According to the above website, and the accompanying newspaper article:

In 2004 PETA killed 86.3 percent of the animals entrusted to its care -- a number that's rising, not falling.

Meanwhile, the SPCA in PETA's home town (Norfolk, Va.) was able to find loving homes for 73 percent of the animals put in its care.

Overlooking some possible definitional issues: PETA has a 14% placement rate, versus the SPCA's 73%??? Stink-O for PETA!


I e-mailed the above to my sister, Giovanna Greene -- who keeps up on environmental and animal-rights groups -- and she replied:

I've always thought PETA people were stupid.

They have numerous times in the past released minks and other animals being raised on fur farms, or animals being raised in laboratories. Released them to the too cold (or too hot) outdoors where they starve or freeze to the death or die of heat stroke OR, as is usually the case, survive and destroy the NATIVE animals because minks and cats (etc.) are not a naturally evolved part of the ecological food chain.

So: Misguided, and not well thought-out. Kinda stupid -- and therefore dangerous.

(Giov's comments about releasing lab animals reminded me of the opening scenes of ''28 Days Later''...)


Dissapointing.


--GG