Ravenwood - 05/13/05 06:30 AM
The Center for Consumer Freedom is using a Times Square Billboard to make political hay out of the fact that PETA has euthanized more than 10,000 animals over the years. Apparently they don't understand the difference between humanely putting domesticated companion animals to "sleep", and deliberately and wontonly slaughtering animals and eating their flesh.
They must be thinking that one dead animal is the same as another. But remember, when PETA does it, it is humane. Their animals were bred for human companionship and love, which is good. Cows, chickens, and pigs are bred purely for human consumption, which is bad evil. See the difference? Me either.
Apparently though even when it comes to companion animals, the local SPCA has a much better record than PETA.
Not counting those that PETA held only temporarily -- for spaying or neutering -- the group killed over 85 percent of the animals it took in during 2003...Hey we meateaters just kill the chickens and eat 'em, we don't cut their whatcha-call-its off.Other animal protection agencies near PETA's Virginia headquarters "put down" a much smaller percentage of the animals entrusted to them. In 2003 the Norfolk SPCA found adoptive homes for 73 percent of its animals. The Virginia Beach SPCA adopted out 66 percent. PETA could only manage 14 percent.
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Animal ``shelters'' are the biggest killers of dogs. If they would just call them animal killing centers, the problem would disappear.
Busybodies love rounding animals up and putting them in one place. Then they discover an overpopulation problem.
They should round up chipmunks for a real overpopulation problem.
See Vicki Hearne http://home.att.net/~rhhardinb/vickihearne.humane.txt
Ravenwood, us meateaters do cut the whatchamacallits off of steers and male pigs. Castration not only makes them considerably easier to handle, but because they don't waste so much energy, they eat less per pound of meat. I suspect it makes the taste blander, but that's better than having farmers crushed and bitten to death by young bulls and boars wanting to try out their strength.
Actually, on the farm where I grew up, Dad just put this rubber-band thingy around the male calves whatchamacallits; it cut off the circulation and they eventually shriveled up and fell off. Except for Billy, who died young when Dad realized that it somehow hadn't worked, and at a little over 1 year old and 500 pounds Billy was challenging Dad for leadership of the herd. Billy sure tasted good.
As for "companion animals", one problem meat farmers have is a tendency to get attached to the critters. My little sisters thought Billy was a pet. Dad had to make up some story about him getting sick...
I suppose chickens aren't castrated because it's too hard to find "it". (People who can even tell male chicks from female are rare and highly paid.) And by the way, chickens are nasty, mean, and filthy. Raise one small flock and you'll be wholeheartedly in favor of killing them, whether or not you intend to eat them.
Posted by: markm at May 14, 2005 10:40 PMYeah, I already knew that. My pre-vet friend in college told me about the cow rubber band thing.
Still, pet owners are a lot closer to the process for their pets than meat-eaters are. Forgive me, but the thought of taking your dog into the vets office and saying "cut his nuts off" seems a little cruel to me.
Posted by: Ravenwood at May 14, 2005 11:06 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
