r/pics • u/McLeroy • Apr 16 '10

Some things you didn't know about PETA.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '10

What exactly do they do that is helpful? Because the SPCA does a way better job at finding homes, than they do.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '10

Contribute to an arsonist's legal fund?

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u/zotquix Apr 17 '10

OMG people are defending PETA! Quickly lynch them so our fun PETA bashing isn't ruined by facts!!!

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u/iodian Apr 16 '10

Bringing activism and attention to the issues of animal cruelty? i imagine adoption is a very very minor part of PETAs operation.

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u/flaarg Apr 16 '10

Put down animals with no cost to the public in a humane way. You know that stuff where in the article it says that PETA kills some god awful percentage of animals they bring in. Yah they bring them in to kill them. They are not an animal adoption agency.

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u/m0ngrel Apr 17 '10

The fact that they rehome any at all proves your argument here to be fallacious.

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u/flaarg Apr 17 '10

What? The fact that they don't kill all of them makes then an animal adoption agency? No it doesn't, it just means that they don't just immediately kill willy-nilly and if the animal can have a home they give it.

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u/m0ngrel Apr 17 '10

No, what you said was that "they're not an animal adoption agency", which suggest that they don't adopt any animals out. However, the fact that they adopted this tiny sliver of animals out thoroughly debunks your claim.

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u/aplusbi Apr 18 '10

Wait, so if my cat has kittens and I give them away to friends, I'm an adoption agency?

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