DumDog:they said euthinasia is a necessary evil in a world full of unwanted pets..... at the same time condemning CANCER research?
not hard to identify their priorities is it?
i wonder what a peta person does when they or their child are diagnosed with a terminal disease that requires animal research in the cure...
They have quite a bit about the horrors of shelters that don't kill animals and how good of a thing it is to put animals to sleep on their website too. Of course it isn't their fault they kill 97% of animals they take in. Or that they killed animals in their van before even giving them a chance to be adopted. Blame the owners and breeders! Interesting that people supposedly for the ethical treatment of animals would so easily accept killing them and run a high kill shelter.
"Euthanasia is a reality because of people who abandon animals, refuse to sterilize their animals, and patronize pet shops and breeders instead of adopting stray animals or animals from shelters." http://www.peta.org/campaigns/ar-euthanasia.asp
"Open-admission shelters are committed to keeping animals safe and off the streets and do not have the option of turning their backs on the victims of the overpopulation crisis as "no-kill" shelters do. No one despises the ugly reality of euthanizing animals more than the people who hold the syringe, but euthanasia is often the most compassionate and dignified way for unwanted animals to leave the world." http://www.peta.org/campaigns/ar-nokillshelters.asp
Nathan Winograd has a lot of good PETA entries on his blog too: http://nathanwinograd.blogspot.com/2008/04/munchausen-by-peta-revised.html