wow... i dunno

i thought they were merely for animal abuse awareness....

Gotta love the irony in that...

I honestly never supported PETA

PETA has been good about raising awareness. They seem to have gone about it the wrong way lately. They even had some members dress in KKK outfits as a publicity stunt recently. Quite sad. I hope they are not as hypocritical as they seem.

I like PETA and what they stand for, but they give a bad image to others who advocate for the same cause. And then, stuff like this happens.

when it comes to animal welfare and rescue, you really don't know who you can trust.

i help out a feline rescue group and have heard some pretty horrible stories. apparently on occasion some "no kill" shelters will suddenly have all their animals develop an incurable disease and end up being put down....conveniently clearing out animals that are hard to adopt out or have been sitting at the shelter for too long. not too long ago, members of my group even took some cats from a local shelter that was about to put them down because they said they were feline HIV positive. my group had them tested. they were all negative. :/ there's a whole lot going on with even "no kill" shelters you just don't want to know about. depresses the hell out of me.

^ That's depressing. I adopted an FIV + cat once. Even if those cats were positive, it wouldn't be a valid excuse to put them down if they are otherwise healthy. Lame.

ive volunteered at a few animal shelters and i think what people seam to never think about is that many of these places are limited on space as well as funds. Personally im a anti-peta person, but i can sometimes see why these animals are put down. And honestly there are just too many animals out there to be adopted, of there where no shelters that kill i cant imagine where all the cats and dogs would go. It is truly a situation that sucks all around.

the cruelty is mankind domesticating these animals in the first place.

yes it does indeed suck all the way around. -_- animal rescue involves making the tough choices. you have to develop a mindset where you think crass things like "if i put down this cat that's costing us $3000 a month at the vet, that's X amount of cats we can rescue in its place." you never get used to it or comfortable with it. it's just painful.

part of what i hate is the fact that some of these shelters hide what they're doing. they lie to the public because the public just wants to think the problem is being taken care of and all the animals will find great homes and be just fine. they don't want to be reminded that there are healthy animals being put down due to lack of space/funds/volunteers. i can't say i totally blame them. it's upsetting as hell to think about. the problem is, maybe they should be upset. maybe they should be horrified by seeing what rescuers and shelter volunteers have to see and deal with first hand. these animals are dependent on us in too many ways, and there are not enough people willing to give a shit about them.

You know, the interesting thing about domestication is that it doesn't just alter the animals that are domesticated, it alters their domesticators in return. I've been trained in evolutionary theory, and what's been really eye-opening to me are the broader applications of that theory, namely that humanity has been co-domesticated by the plants and animals that it has domesticated.

Certain physical traits have been changed for sure, like the size of crops and animals, and these in turn work as selective forces on us. We inject cattle and other livestock with hormones, and thus we ingest these chemicals as well. And on a wider scale, other problems occur, like elevated methane levels in the atmosphere and nationwide high rates of obesity from cattle production and consumption, respectively.

I was raised on meat as a staple of almost every meal, but as I've spent time with friends who have become more aware of these realities, it's convinced me to at least reduce my meat intake and consider the plights of not just the animals humanity breeds for consumption, but also for humanity itself, as it is altered by that same domestication.