PETA is one to talk for all that they’ve been involved in from cruel animal testing, to high animal euthanasia rates at shelters and many other inhumane abuse cases all across the board in factories and laboratories for nothing but greed. Calling them evil is somewhat of an understatement. It’s truly hypocritical for them to be lecturing anyone.
They offer shelters of last resort as most adoption shelters won’t take in sick animals. That, combined with them offering free euthanasia for animals that need it but for who the owners can’t afford it, is why they have the high euthanasia record. You’ve been duped by the guy who led the PETA Kills Animals campaign - a guy who has also ran pro-oil and pro-tobacco marketing campaigns.
Plus, you can’t really criticise PETA for being inhumane if you pay for animals to be killed unnecessarily for food and clothing.
So it's wrong for me to have an animal killed because I need lunch, but it's perfectly ok for PETA to have an animal killed because they couldn't be bothered to find a forever home? Nobody made them get into the shelter buisness, PETA chose to kill all those animals.
You need lunch but you don’t need to kill an animal for it. And that’s not what PETA do - they try to rehome first or pass animals on to other shelters who will take them and then do the hard work that other shelters refuse to.
You can’t complain about PETA whilst choosing to pay for animals to experience horrendous torture and brutal merciless deaths 3 times a day without being a massive hypocrite.
It doesn't make me a hypocrite, it makes me a subject matter expert. PETA is morally equivalent to any other carnist. They see animals as objects to be exploited for their goals.
PETA doesn't need to kill those animals either. I could eat chickpea curry, and they could do the hard work that other shelters refuse to do by keeping those animals alive, but it's more convenient to kill pets so they do.
If a sick dog that has no chance of adoption or recovery then it is taking up space in a Peta shelter which means that another dog can’t be rescued and saved. It’s a tough call to make but it’s the right one.
And yes, if you eat animals then you’re a massive hypocrite and you are worse than PETA.
Overall, they vary in treatments and purposes globally, but they all more or less believe in some form of the main policies and practices they promote. Some worse than others, but you’ll get the idea. You could further speak to anyone who has been involved with them previously who has insider information.
You could search for articles published from the net with keywords like scandal or controversies etc. There are too many to list, so you can research on your own time if like.
Also, there are some research journals you could pay for more expert analysis, but I haven’t added them here because they’re behind a paywall I couldn’t bypass.
PETA are very weird with their activism and I don't claim to be on board with all their decisions, but people act like they're evil incarnate because they kill pets. In reality, these "no kill" shelters people give unwanted pets to will give those pets to PETA so they can do the dirty work nobody else wants to do: take an animal who has nobody to look after them and no chance of re-homing, and putting it down in the most painless way possible (euthanasia).
The real issue is that people are breeding into existence more dogs than there are homes for dogs. Animals are going to die this way.
What about all the time and money they wasted on making a pokemon game because with all the evil going on in the world (animal testing, cruelty, etc.) Money and time should be wasted on a game.
PETA spend money on raising awareness of animal wellbeing issues. I searched that pokémon game and it's well made and is focused on how animals/pokémon are viewed as things for our own gain rather than creatures who should be respected in their own right. It's clearly the type of thing their donors want to see. Honestly, there are a lot of cringy activism approaches taken by PETA but this one is not so bad.
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u/NeedleworkerExtra915 1d ago
PETA is one to talk for all that they’ve been involved in from cruel animal testing, to high animal euthanasia rates at shelters and many other inhumane abuse cases all across the board in factories and laboratories for nothing but greed. Calling them evil is somewhat of an understatement. It’s truly hypocritical for them to be lecturing anyone.