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How Bad Can PETA Get?
In a battle between PETA and the fast food industry, it's hard to root for either side.
This particular skirmish, though, is worth learning about.
A restaurant advocacy group has released documents showing that PETA kills the vast majority of animals in its care — more than previously thought. And for once, the restaurants might be right.
According to documents compiled by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and originally released last week, investigators visited a Norfolk,
VA PETA shelter in July 2010, only to find that it wasn't really a "shelter" at all. A few animals were housed there, but the area where they were kept wasn't available to the public,
and they weren't available for adoption. In fact, the shelter didn't really do adoptions. What it did was euthanasia: in 2010, 94% of the animals it took in were euthanized, 90% within
just 24 hours of admission. The (obviously partisan) organization PETA Kills Animals also obtained statewide stats for shelter kills in Virginia — over the past 15 years,
PETA's kill percentage has been slowly climbing, from 72.6% in 1998 to 95.9% statewide in 2011. The state average for kills is closer to 50%.
Source: http://jezebel.com/5888604/how-bad-can-peta-get-very
Discuss.
This particular skirmish, though, is worth learning about.
A restaurant advocacy group has released documents showing that PETA kills the vast majority of animals in its care — more than previously thought. And for once, the restaurants might be right.
According to documents compiled by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and originally released last week, investigators visited a Norfolk,
VA PETA shelter in July 2010, only to find that it wasn't really a "shelter" at all. A few animals were housed there, but the area where they were kept wasn't available to the public,
and they weren't available for adoption. In fact, the shelter didn't really do adoptions. What it did was euthanasia: in 2010, 94% of the animals it took in were euthanized, 90% within
just 24 hours of admission. The (obviously partisan) organization PETA Kills Animals also obtained statewide stats for shelter kills in Virginia — over the past 15 years,
PETA's kill percentage has been slowly climbing, from 72.6% in 1998 to 95.9% statewide in 2011. The state average for kills is closer to 50%.
Source: http://jezebel.com/5888604/how-bad-can-peta-get-very
Discuss.
The idea that, as the supposedly higher life form, therefor we should treat lower life forms with dignity and respect makes perfect sense to me. PETA has it's flaws, but the ideology is good. The industrialization of food has caused several problems, including food born illness, human death, both from sickness and (in its early days) work related accidents, and a complete transformation of our diet.
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