Since this seems to be a Debate among vegans, I wanted to share. Lets not let this get nasty, we re lowed to debate. My friend created this site, not PETA and she really did her research! (Copied from her) Copied from my friend Mary. Folks, the PETA Kills Animals phenomenon was a hoax perpetrated by the Center for Consumer Freedom, a slick Washington public relations outfit that protects the interests of animal enterprise industries. They created the hoax to mitigate PETAs impact on their meat and biomedical industry clients profit margins. For example, one of the Center for Consumer Freedoms clients is Covance Laboratories, the worlds largest breeder of dogs used in biomedical research. Chances are, if youve ever seen an image of a beagle laying dead and disassembled in a research lab, he or she originated from a Covance puppy mill. Public relations firms start conversations, either about their clients or about their clients adversaries, and they do it by way of writing and distributing press releases and sending pitches directly to journalists. Public relations firms cultivate relationships with many different journalists to guarantee their campaigns are received by a broad audience. Since journalists dont actually work for public relations firms, their articles appear to have an unbiased outsider view, even though, behind the scenes, the journalists are often working closely with public relations groups to disseminate a very specific message. Public relations firms also specialize in crisis management strategies and develop counter campaigns to mitigate any damage their clients critics might do to their reputations. This is why there are any number of nearly identical PETA Kills Animals articles and blogs out there, but it doesnt matter how many there are, they all get it wrong for the same reasons. Not so admirably, others have jumped on the PETA Kills Animals bandwagon to mitigate PETAs impact on their agendas too. Nathan Winograd falls into this category. Rather than address PETAs concerns about his dangerous and ineffective no kill initiatives head-on, Nathan Winograd uses the PETA Kills Animals hoax to change the conversation. The small, hands-on facility at PETAs Norfolk headquarters isnt a traditional animal shelter, but by comparing it to one, PETAs detractors are able to make it seem like PETAs euthanasia numbers are very high and somehow very bad. PETAs shelter operates for the primary purpose of providing no-cost, humane, veterinarian-supervised, medical euthanasia to suffering community animals who require it. This service is offered on an emergency on-call basis only, and its not advertised in any way. PETAs Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services animal reporting data and shelter inspection reports confirm that nearly every animal PETA receives for euthanasia is received from his or her guardian for this service. There is no indication that these guardians arent acting in their animals best interests by requesting this service from PETAs shelter, or that its in any of their best interests not to be immediately euthanized. Most of PETAs community work involves helping to improve the quality of life for outdoor dogs and keeping community animals who are in good homes, in those good homes. PETA served over 6,000 outdoor dogs last year in ways that were meaningful to them. Because PETA never takes custody of those animals, they arent accounted for in their state animal reporting data. Neither are the over 11,000 community animals PETA spayed and neutered last year in their free and low-cost mobile clinics. PETA served over 17,000 animals who went on to have happy, healthy lives last year, but because they dont appear on the animal reporting summaries, theyre unfairly absent from conversations about the work PETA does. PETA just released a video about their shelter and the misconceptions people have about it. I encourage you to watch it and share it with others. youtube/watch?v=AXcW2I5OlEA
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 23:04:08 +0000
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