Comment by Kranar
4 years ago
PETA does not believe pet ownership is equal to slavery, it ran an ad campaign comparing abused animals captive for things like circus acts, marine parks, and factory farming to slavery. That said it does believe animals should not be domesticated, but has never suggested that owning a pet is the same as slavery. Okay fine you can disagree with that as I do, but don't exaggerate their position.
Finally the reason it has the highest euthanization rates has nothing to do with mercy, but because it never refuses to take in any animals, period. Other shelters, especially no-kill shelters, achieve their objective by refusing to take in an animal when they reach capacity and they avoid reaching capacity in the first place by refusing animals that are unlikely to be adopted such as those that are aggressive, or old, or are injured.
PETA never refuses any animals and as such people go to PETA often as a last resort when no other shelter will take their animal. In cases where PETA comes to the same conclusion that a no-kill shelter will come to about the prospects of an animal finding a suitable home, and after PETA confirms that no other nearby shelter will take in the animal, instead of simply refusing the animal which often results in dumping, or further neglect of said animal, PETA euthanizes it. Consider that there are over 60 million stray dogs in the US roaming about compared to about 3 million dogs living in a shelter. It's simply not possible to shelter all abandoned animals, so either PETA euthanizes them, or the animal lives out in the wild where it ends up reproducing and introducing or exacerbating negative effects to its environment.
All of these are positions that you may disagree with and criticize without exaggerating or misrepresenting them.
PETA literally sued in federal court to try and get _all animals_ protected under the Thirteenth Amendment. That's the one abolishing slavery, in case you didn't know.
In the no-longer-circulating Statement on Companion Animals, PETA said: "As John Bryant has written in his book Fettered Kingdoms, they [pets] are like slaves, even if well-kept slaves."
John Byrant's book was published by PETA. He writes: "Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles--from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave it."
PETA's cofounder, Ingrid Newkirk, states: "Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do."
You may agree with such positions, but please don't lie about it. I misrepresent nothing.
And if you think any of this is radical, you haven't even heard what they've had to say about human beings yet.
You are wrong once again. PETA sued to free 5 orcas in captivity at SeaWorld using the 13th amendment, not all animals/pets.
Also, John Bryant, while being an animal activist who you quote as opposed to animal domestication, was never a member of PETA. I also doubt his book was published by PETA as it predates their founding. It looks like the publisher is Fern House.
Your quote from Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's cofounder had nothing to do with pets. I agree that PETA does compare certain forms of animal captivity to slavery, for example circus animals, animals used for experimentation, those used for factory farming, but not pet ownership in general.