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PETA: Serial Killer of Adoptable Pets

by thunderbird
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PETA really should stand for "People for the Evil Treatment of Animals." With such hypocrisy, why does anyone take PETA to be anything other than a slaughterhouse and evil cult, run by a psychopathic mass murderer of adoptable pets by the name of Ingrid Newkirk. She has run a reign of terror over innocent adoptable pets, killing nearly 100% of them that are taken to PETA. PETA workers routinely like and give the impression that they'll try to find homes for pets before murdering them:

Ingrid Newkirk - PETA's Shame

Here's a petition to PETA to stop the killing helpless adoptable pets and remove their psychopathic and murderous leader, Ingrid Newkirk:
http://www.change.org/petitions/peta...share_petition
  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    Didn't we just have this thread a couple weeks ago - but with different links?

    I don't approve of PETA or things the organization does - but the fact remains if PEOPLE take care of their animals...no one will put them to sleep. If you surrender your pet to PETA or to a shelter or drop it long the side of the road - you're a fool if you think "it will be OK".

    Newkirk is a co-founder of PETA. A petition to "fire" her is a probably not going to work.

    I'm an animal lover and a proponent of no-kill shelters - but I'm a realist, too. There is no magic in animal shelters where space and money and help expands magically to care for thousands upon thousands of abandoned/relinquished animals.

    The answer isn't screaming at animal shelters and PETA - it's promoting and requiring spay/neuter programs and demanding responsible pet ownership.
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

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      The answer isn't screaming at animal shelters and PETA - it's promoting and requiring spay/neuter programs and demanding responsible pet ownership.
      PETA kills nearly 100 percent of adoptable pets taken to it. It shouldn't be lumped together with legitimate animal shelters that make some effort to find adoptive homes for the animals their care and have far lower euthanasia rates, even if they aren't "no kill" shelters per se. PETA is a cult run by a psychopathic leader who has expressed enthusiasm for putting pets to death, long before PETA was even founded. Ingrid Newkirk, in her enthusiasm for killing adoptable pets, exhibits many of the traits of serial killers and, in fact, is a serial killer, not of humans but of animals. PETA is actually on the record for opposing finding adoptive homes for stray pets. Whatever it's agenda is, it's twisted. PETA's publicity stunts highlights its demented nature and outright hypocrisy.
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

        PETA kills nearly 100 percent of adoptable pets taken to it. It shouldn't be lumped together with legitimate animal shelters that make some effort to find adoptive homes for the animals their care and have far lower euthanasia rates, even if they aren't "no kill" shelters per se. PETA is a cult run by a psychopathic leader who has expressed enthusiasm for putting pets to death, long before PETA was even founded. Ingrid Newkirk, in her enthusiasm for killing adoptable pets, exhibits many of the traits of serial killers and, in fact, is a serial killer, not of humans but of animals. PETA is actually on the record for opposing finding adoptive homes for stray pets. Whatever it's agenda is, it's twisted. PETA's publicity stunts highlights its demented nature and outright hypocrisy.
        PeTA is not a shelter organization and never has been. It's also not an animal welfare (as opposed to animal rights) organization. They have a very clear mission in regards to pets, and that is to abolish pets. They do not believe that people should have companion animals. Period.

        You can be certain that they will not waste a dime on sheltering animals when they could spend that money fundraising. A petition to get rid of Newkirk won't work. She is a co-founder of the organization.

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        "In a perfect world, animals would be free to live their lives to the fullest: raising their young, enjoying their native environments, and following their natural instincts. However, domesticated dogs and cats cannot survive "free" in our concrete jungles, so we must take as good care of them as possible. People with the time, money, love, and patience to make a lifetime commitment to an animal can make an enormous difference by adopting from shelters or rescuing animals from a perilous life on the street. But it is also important to stop manufacturing "pets," thereby perpetuating a class of animals forced to rely on humans to survive."
        -PETA pamphlet, Companion Animals: Pets or Prisoners?

        "I don't use the word "pet." I think it's speciesist language. I prefer "companion animal." For one thing, we would no longer allow breeding. People could not create different breeds. There would be no pet shops. If people had companion animals in their homes, those animals would have to be refugees from the animal shelters and the streets. You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship Â? enjoyment at a distance."
        -Ingrid Newkirk, PETA vice-president, quoted in The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p.223.

        "It is time we demand an end to the misguided and abusive concept of animal ownership. The first step on this long, but just, road would be ending the concept of pet ownership."
        -Elliot Katz, President, In Defense of Animals, "In Defense of Animals," Spring 1997

        "Liberating our language by eliminating the word 'pet' is the first step ... In an ideal society where all exploitation and oppression has been eliminated, it will be NJARA's policy to oppose the keeping of animals as 'pets.'"
        -New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, "Should Dogs Be Kept As Pets? NO!" Good Dog! February 1991, p.20

        "Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles -- from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave it."
        -John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic, PETA, 1982, p.15.

        "The cat, like the dog, must disappear..... We should cut the domestic cat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist."
        -John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of a Changing Ethic, PETA 1982, p.15.

        "As John Bryant has written in his book Fettered Kingdoms, they [pets] are like slaves, even if well-kept slaves."
        -PETA's Statement on Companion Animals

        "The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship they should seek it with their own kind."
        -Ingrid Newkirk, President, PETA, "Animals," May/June 1993

        "You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV."
        -Ingrid Newkirk, President, PETA, Chicago Daily Herald, March 1, 1990.

        "Pet ownership is an abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation."
        -Ingrid Newkirk, President, PETA, Washingtonian, August 1986

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        • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          I honestly think you are in the deep end on this topic.

          I don't approve of PETA or high euthanasia rates - but pets can't be put down if their owners take care of them. That's a simple truth people don't like to hear.<snip>
          I honestly don't think I am in the deep end for calling out mass murder of helpless animals by a highly influential, celebrity-supported extremist cult with a psychopathic leader.

          Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

          PeTA is not a shelter organization and never has been. It's also not an animal welfare (as opposed to animal rights) organization. They have a very clear mission in regards to pets, and that is to abolish pets. They do not believe that people should have companion animals. Period.
          Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

          You can be certain that they will not waste a dime on sheltering animals when they could spend that money fundraising. A petition to get rid of Newkirk won't work. She is a co-founder of the organization.
          Maybe not, but at least it'll help expose PETA for what it is to the general public. Former PETA workers call it, "The cult of Newkirk" -- because that is what it is. Cult members don't usually get rid of their dear leader, but at least the petition will help the public become aware of it. Legislation to officially designate PETA's headquarters as a "slaughterhouse" instead of a shelter would help.
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          • Profile picture of the author socialentry
            Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

            I honestly don't think I am in the deep end for calling out mass murder of helpless animals by a highly influential, celebrity-supported extremist cult with a psychopathic leader.

            Maybe not, but at least it'll help expose PETA for what it is to the general public. Former PETA workers call it, "The cult of Newkirk" -- because that is what it is. Cult members don't usually get rid of their dear leader, but at least the petition will help the public become aware of it. Legislation to officially designate PETA's headquarters as a "slaughterhouse" instead of a shelter would help.
            I agree.

            PETA is just like the Nazi party, but for animals.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

    PETA really should stand for "People for the Evil Treatment of Animals." With such hypocrisy, why does anyone take PETA to be anything other than a slaughterhouse and evil cult, run by a psychopathic mass murderer of adoptable pets by the name of Ingrid Newkirk. She has run a reign of terror over innocent adoptable pets, killing nearly 100% of them that are taken to PETA. PETA workers routinely like and give the impression that they'll try to find homes for pets before murdering them:

    Ingrid Newkirk - PETA's Shame

    Here's a petition to PETA to stop the killing helpless adoptable pets and remove their psychopathic and murderous leader, Ingrid Newkirk:
    http://www.change.org/petitions/peta...share_petition
    I wish you'd just come out and say what you mean instead of beating around the bush like that. :rolleyes:

    Seriously though, I would agree she's a hypocrite, but psychopath?
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    • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      I wish you'd just come out and say what you mean instead of beating around the bush like that. :rolleyes:

      Seriously though, I would agree she's a hypocrite, but psychopath?
      Yes, I would actually say that she is a psychopath. They usually find defenseless targets. She's found the perfect defenceless victims -- homeless pets. Most serial killers had a history of killing animals before moving on to humans, choosing vulnerable victims. Her profile would be more like serial killer nurses who murder their victims in the belief that they are being compassionate than an outright sadist.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        I honestly think you are in the deep end on this topic.

        I don't approve of PETA or high euthanasia rates - but pets can't be put down if their owners take care of them. That's a simple truth people don't like to hear.

        If it's that easy to find homes for these animals - why don't the owners find the homes for themselves instead of relying on PETA or shelters? I agree this woman and some other high ups at PETA are a bit strange and their priorities are "out there". I don't think they are willfully cruel or trying to kill as many animals as possible. I think some of the groups are taking on more than they can handle and the animals suffer for it.

        Last month I tried to rescue a dog whose owner had died. The heir was disabled and couldn't care for Eisner (an 8 yr old black lab) but told me how well trained and sweet the dog was.

        I didn't get to the shelter in time to save him and it wasn't anyone's fault in this case. An older dog, traumatized by loss and changes, a good animal shelter trying to keep the animals most likely to be adopted...and with a good adoption rate. I could only hope Eisner is now with the owner who loved him for years.
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      • Profile picture of the author socialentry
        More evidence in favour of banning PETA (last time there was a poll on it at least 25% of respondent answered they were a terrorist organization)
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