Animal Rights
Sep. 26th, 2007 01:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkI'm almost certainly preaching to the choir here, but if you support animal rights*, you should avoid PETA like the plague.
Here's a not entirely unbiased, but very fact laden account of the pet-dumping trial, which reveals that not only were PETA employees following SOP when they killed and dumped 31 animals, but that they'd dumped many more there, AND among the dead were a number of animals that were adoptable. Indeed that were given to PETA for the purpose of adoption, with said PETA employees assuring the former owners that the animals would find good homes.
It's a sad but very interesting read, and the worst bit is that the two killers, part of an organization that maintains that to kill an animal is equal to murdering a human, and that eating meat is comparable to being a prison guard during the holocaust, got away with their "murders" scott free, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
*I should probably say animal welfare, given how the two terms are used these days. But I don't know. I think animals should have rights. Not the kind of crazed "free from all human touch" rights that PETA wants to give them, but they should have the right to be free from pain, to avoid abuse. The be killed humanely and for a purpose if they are killed. They don't have rights in the way that humans have rights, but they do have rights all the same, or they should.
Here's a not entirely unbiased, but very fact laden account of the pet-dumping trial, which reveals that not only were PETA employees following SOP when they killed and dumped 31 animals, but that they'd dumped many more there, AND among the dead were a number of animals that were adoptable. Indeed that were given to PETA for the purpose of adoption, with said PETA employees assuring the former owners that the animals would find good homes.
It's a sad but very interesting read, and the worst bit is that the two killers, part of an organization that maintains that to kill an animal is equal to murdering a human, and that eating meat is comparable to being a prison guard during the holocaust, got away with their "murders" scott free, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
*I should probably say animal welfare, given how the two terms are used these days. But I don't know. I think animals should have rights. Not the kind of crazed "free from all human touch" rights that PETA wants to give them, but they should have the right to be free from pain, to avoid abuse. The be killed humanely and for a purpose if they are killed. They don't have rights in the way that humans have rights, but they do have rights all the same, or they should.
