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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
More accurately, PETA claims that 90 of the animals they receive...
Personally, I think it is striking that PETA puts down far, far more animals than the SPCA does.
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Don't know where you got that fact from, but I am curious. As a percentage yes they do, but in the 6 year span of 1998 - 2003 they euthanized 10,000 animals I don't think that's anywhere near the SPCA numbers, especially since the Austin SPCA euthanized 15000 in 2005 alone. But you have to realize the SPCA and Humane Society don't take in rescued animals for laboratories and slaughterhouses, where many of the animals aren't in the best condition. They have a division that also patrols neighborhoods for dogs/cats that aren't being taken care of correctly and many of these end up being far in to irrecoverable diseases like heartworm. PETA also uses much more humane ways of euthanizing animals than many shelters who sometimes gas a bunch of them in a room, where as PETA always uses the much less painful lethal injection. Also I don't even know how PETA got brought up in this because they are not even a direct action organization. The ALF is the "organization" that breaks into labs and commits crimes of vandalism, arson, theft, etc. in the name of animal rights. I am no longer a member of PETA as I don't agree with some of the stuff they do, but to say that animal welfare isn't their top priority is absolutely asinine. For the most part the organization is run by very intelligent and really nice people. All this stuff is conservative media trying to label them as hypocrites to mess up their message.