Do you give money to groups like PETA and HSUS? why, they think very little of you.?

Question

We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded children."
-Alex Pacheco, Director, PETA, New York Times, January 14, 1989
The life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration."
-Michael W. Fox, Vice President, The Human Society of the United States, The Inhumane Society, New York, 1990.
"Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans."
-Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd edition, 1999
"To those people who say, `My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say `Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade off."
- Bill Maher, PETA celebrity spokesman
"If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make any difference to me."
-Chris De Rose, Director, Last Chance for Animals

Answer 1

The goals of HSUS and PETA are to use the political system to remove all pets from households. It's too bad that people are so naive as to believe that they actually CARE about animals.

Read this from http://www.animalscam.com

7 Things You Didn't Know About PETA

1) PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has described her group’s overall goal as “total animal liberation.” This means no meat, no milk, no zoos, no circuses, no wool, no leather, no hunting, no fishing, and no pets (not even seeing-eye dogs). PETA is also against all medical research that requires the use of animals.
2) Despite its constant moralizing about the “unethical” treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, PETA has killed over 14,400 dogs and cats at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. During 2005, PETA put to death over 90 percent of the animals it collected from members of the public.
3) PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals. This includes a 2001 donation of $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an FBI-certified “domestic terrorist” group responsible for dozens of firebombs and death threats. During the 1990s, PETA paid $70,200 to an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory. In his sentencing recommendation, a federal prosecutor implicated PETA president Ingrid Newkirk in that crime. And PETA vegetarian campaign coordinator Bruce Friedrich told an animal rights convention in 2001 that “blowing stuff up and smashing windows” is “a great way to bring about animal liberation.”
4) PETA activists regularly target children as young as six years old with anti-meat and anti-milk propaganda, often waiting outside their schools to intercept them as they walk to and from class-without notifying parents. One piece of kid-targeted PETA literature tells small children: “Your Mommy Kills Animals!” PETA brags that its messages reach over 2 million children every year, including thousands reached by e-mail without the permission of their parents. One PETA vice president told the Fox News Channel’s audience: “Our campaigns are always geared towards children, and they always will be.”
5) PETA has used a related organization, the PETA Foundation, to fund the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a deceptive animal rights group that promotes itself as an unbiased source of medical and nutritional information. PCRM's president also serves as president of the PETA Foundation.
6) PETA runs campaigns seemingly calculated to offend religious believers. One entire PETA website is devoted to the claim-despite ample evidence to the contrary-that Jesus Christ was a vegetarian. PETA holds protests at houses of worship, even suing one church that tried to protect its members from Sunday-morning harassment. Its billboards taunt Christians with the message that hogs “died for their sins.” PETA insists, contrary to centuries of rabbinical teaching, that the Jewish ritual of kosher slaughter shouldn't be allowed. And its infamous “Holocaust on Your Plate” campaign crassly compares the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide with farm animals.
7) PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, because they support animal-based research that might uncover cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. PETA president Ingrid Newkirk has said that “even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it.”

PETA is a great organization, huh? Why not just send your money to terrorists instead.

Answer 2

They're just 5 out of millions of other people. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. Besides, giving money to PETA is not for them, but for the animals. And if you know that donating will help the animals, this shouldn't affect you.

Answer 3

I don't see a problem with the quotes you posted...I agree with most of them. But I guess that's why I'm also a vegetarian who doesn't agree with animal testing. I don't give money to PETA because I would rather donate to my local shelter. I don't agree with many of PETA's policies, or their fanaticism. But they do bring a lot of attention to the cruelty animals endure in the fur industry, meat industry, and in regards to animal testing. I'd rather they tested drugs on homeless people who need the money...at least they can make the decision whether they want to undergo testing...animals can't. An animal's life isn't less valuable to me than a human's. Why are we so egocentric to think we're superior? Humans are like a virus on this earth. I support anything that helps to give rights to creatures that can't speak for themselves. Why is that bad exactly? Why shouldn't children see how the meat they eat, that is so nicely packaged, is obtained. Most people who actually witness what goes on in a slaughter house would probably never touch meat again. It's so easy for us to turn a blind eye to the atrocities these animals endure, just for the sake of a yummy burger, or a fur coat. Makes me sick actually.

Answer 4

I'm curious as to why you keep lumping PETA and the Humane Society together--aren't they completely separate animal rights organizations?

While the quotes above are controversial, they are also marvelously thought provoking. For example, Michael J. Fox certainly has a lot of reason to benefit from animal testing because of his Parkinson's, but he's against it--doesn't that make him even more credible?

Of course everyone has the right to debate the individual issues. Freedom of speech is a beautiful thing. But I'm certainly glad there are organizations keeping us aware of animal rights, even when I disagree with some of their tactics. For what it's worth, I find it reprehensible for *any* organization to target schoolchildren -- including the people who gave out Bibles to my fourth grade class, without any concerns about whether all the children were Christian. But arguing tactics is different from arguing whether a cause is "worth" such tactics.

Keep on asking questions!

Answer 5

I'm not a fan of extreme animal rights organizations, so I don't give them $$. I give to my local rescue organizations.
However organziations such as Peta, HSUS, etc have also done a great deal of good for animals.

But the larger the organization, the more money goes to administrative costs and salaries and publicity, rather than to actually helping animals.

Support your local shelters, give generously. (that is give money, not your unwanted puppies)

Answer 6

Does anyone know of an animal that volunteered to take part in some of the experiments that take place? I don't. However I do know of a pharmaceutical company that used dogs to conduct research on. They rented a house in a run down neighbor hood so that PETA wouldn't know where they were doing the testing at. The dogs were purchased from a local animal pound. One dog was overweight and clearly someones pet but it did not stop the company from using the dog. At the end of the experiment, the dogs were put to death so that they could be examined. Yes, I would give money to PETA to stop such occurrences from happening. Someone has to watch out for the animals that can't speak up for themselves.

Answer 7

PETA does a lot of good for animals. They're a huge organization so I'm sure there's a lot of corruption just like most big business. But the reason they exist is to bring awareness to animal cruelty and I can't understand why that's a bad thing.

Answer 8

PETA makes me laugh. You know they euthanize animals just like animal shelters across the country that they claim are evil. Besides in all reality if they were that sure about their beliefs they wouldn't take money from people who eat animals. With that said I enjoy hunting, fishing, and really eating meat in general. Seeing as how lions eat gazelle and snakes eat rabbits whats wrong with me eating a cow or fish?

Please do not cry about animal testing. If thats the case lets tell people whom have benefited from this they can't have their medicine because it was tested on a dog first. Plus I do not believe your b.s. story about scientist renting a house. It would be unsanitary and basically ruin any chance of having a sterile test. So please tell the people who are taking medication to fight off HIV they can't have it any more. If you think a monkey's life is more important you really need help. On a different note if we are watching out for animals that can't speak how do you feel about abortion?

Answer 9

No...I give to the SPCA right here in the city I live in. I buy a huge bag of dog food, biggest bag of cat food, and cat litter, and take it to them every single month. All the paper I shred, I take to them to use as bedding for the other animals they get. That, to me, is a better donation than to send money to these other organizations.

Answer 10

I hate PETA. Despise the organization and feel disgust for the idiots who continue to send in millions and millions of dollars every year for their advertising campaigns. This organization does less to truly help animals than most local animal shelters whose yearly budget is less than $50,000 rather than PETA's $16 or $17 million!

http://www.peta.org/feat/ar2003/17.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/975211/posts

PETA has an absolutely HORRENDOUS record with animals intrusted into their care. They routinely euthanize most of the animals they get without ever trying to rehome them (that might cost them money after all!) http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/2982
http://www.targetofopportunity.com/peta.htm
***And for the total death count administered by PETA, despite their astronomical budget: http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

PETA also sponsors terrorist organizations and routinely commits other illegal acts, to the point where the IRS has been requested to revoke their tax exempt status.
http://www.cdfe.org/CDFEPetaComplaint.pdf
http://www.stopecoviolence.org/pdfs/3_07_02.pdf
http://hometown.aol.com/redbutterfly3181/PETA.html

But, IMO, some of the worst things this dangerous organization does is try to influence our children. Activists for this group went to Burger King and showed pictures of slaughter houses to kids. And they attended Oscar Meyer Weinermobile events and showed the same pictures. Then there is this:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176739,00.html