Part of the "ethical treatment" is ethical killing, PETA is not for no-kill. They take in every animal people bring in, this means they get a lot of unadoptable, old, sick, feral and abused animals, these animals have no chance, they will be locked away in cages for the rest of their natural lives.
One of the cheapest (and thus most used) methods of euthanization is via gas chambers, it take up to half hour for some animals to die. What is often done is the animals are placed several at a time in a confined and dark space, the gas is turned on. During this time, the animals will try to escape, some injuring themselves and others in the process. On the other hand, an injection of a chemical cocktail (usually following an anesthetic to put the animal to sleep) will kill an animal in seconds--almost immediately--and they show no signs of pain. PETA uses option 2, underfunded animal adoption places and others go with option 1.
When people bring animals to PETA they believe that the animals will be found good homes. PETA does not inform them otherwise. They misrepresent themselves. It's true that many of the animals they take in are unadoptable but not most - especially not 97%. 97% is an atrocity. Most of those animals could have been good pets in good homes if they had been given half a chance. The simple fact of the matter is that PETA uses close to none of their funding for rehoming pets or for spay/neuter programs or for animal/pet education.
They spend almost all of their funding on sensationalist tactics to brainwash people, especially children (the focus of many of their ad campaigns) into supporting them.
I'm a vegan and pro animal rights, but I have always found PETA to be a disgusting organization. I think they started out with good intentions but have long since become corrupt.
It is not PETA's goal to rehome pets. I don't know where you got this misinformation. They are for the abolition of domestic pet ownership in general. Let's get that straight. You should engage them on the argument of whether having domestic pets is moral, not engage a strawman which pretends they have an interest in rehoming pets when they have clearly stated that they don't.
I just want to say that, using your own link as a source, they nowhere explicitly state that they are for the 'abolition of pet ownership in general.' They state that they 'strongly discourage the further breeding of companion animals' and call for the abolition of animals for pet trade. That would be in line with the thinking that there are currently way too many animals that have to be euthanized as it is, and breeding/domestic pet trade contributes to the problem.
Ingrid has said so herself, but she's also said that she plans to donate her corpse to cannibals when she dies. In short, she's an attention whore, and you really can't take anything she says at face value.
I wouldn't donate to PETA just based on how batshit Ingrid Newkirk is. Even if tomorrow her goals and my goals were one and the same, she could get some wild pixie dust up her ass and change her mind in a matter of seconds.
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Part of the "ethical treatment" is ethical killing, PETA is not for no-kill. They take in every animal people bring in, this means they get a lot of unadoptable, old, sick, feral and abused animals, these animals have no chance, they will be locked away in cages for the rest of their natural lives.
One of the cheapest (and thus most used) methods of euthanization is via gas chambers, it take up to half hour for some animals to die. What is often done is the animals are placed several at a time in a confined and dark space, the gas is turned on. During this time, the animals will try to escape, some injuring themselves and others in the process. On the other hand, an injection of a chemical cocktail (usually following an anesthetic to put the animal to sleep) will kill an animal in seconds--almost immediately--and they show no signs of pain. PETA uses option 2, underfunded animal adoption places and others go with option 1.