What happened to the 7641 sterilized?
If true, that’s both sad and sick at the same time. While I never cared for PETA, I thought they were at least kind to animals.
I don’t know. The founders have repeatedly stated that pets shouldn’t exist.
Guess I should have scrolled down first. :smack:

Uh…
By “any individual idiot in the organization” do you mean Ingrid Newkirk, the founder and president?
Ingrid Newkirk said:
<snipped> But as the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship – enjoyment at a distance.
Am I understanding this guy correctly? Is he actually advocating the planned extinction of several hundred species of animals because he thinks having a pet is unethical?

Am I understanding this guy correctly? Is he actually advocating the planned extinction of several hundred species of animals because he thinks having a pet is unethical?
“She” and I get the distinct impression that she won’t be happy until Homo erectus dies out.
I’m amazed. PETA is even more fucked up than I thought it was. And I already thought they were nuts.
“She” and I get the distinct impression that she won’t be happy until Homo erectus dies out.
Then she ought to be over the moon with glee. The latest information I’ve come across says that Homo erectus died out some 50,000 years ago.
(Thanks for letting me know she’s a she. I tend to write PETA off as real wingnuts, so I studiously ignore them.)
Doesn’t PETA believe that pets should die out?

Doesn’t PETA believe that pets should die out?
I forgot to add…
perhaps using 1920’s-style death rays?

Then she ought to be over the moon with glee. The latest information I’ve come across says that Homo erectus died out some 50,000 years ago.
Yeah, yeah, I meant sapien. High school was 20 years ago.
“She” and I get the distinct impression that she won’t be happy until Homo erectus dies out.
I thought you were being ironic or sardonic or something.

The story I read this morning reported they were taking animals for the purpose of adoption and euthanizing them.
This story from the local news channel says the same thing; animal control thought the animals had been picked up as part of an adoption program.
Yeah, yeah, I meant sapien. High school was 20 years ago.
Even 20 years ago, Homo erectus had already gone extinct.
Ingrid Newkirk is also an insulin dependant diabetic, and thus, for most of her life has benefitted from the same kinds of animal testing she claims to abhor. Of course she says because of her desire to “save” animals, that it’s perfectly okay for her to use those things, but the rest of us should just suffer and die.
And hey, let’s also forget that animals under the protective care of humans tend to live longer, healthier lives than they do in the wild. Damn, I think I’m going to have to go get me some KFC now.
NO KFC! Don’t you know that mad, evil scientists have genetically engineered chickens with no beaks and no teeth!

NO KFC! Don’t you know that mad, evil scientists have genetically engineered chickens with no beaks and no teeth!
They’ve also apparantly engineered them to be rubbery and covered with a tacky substance that has no resemblence to what it was supposed to taste like.

I thought you were being ironic or sardonic or something.
I posted the wrong species because at some point in the past 20 years I had forgotten which ones we are. Should’ve just said “humans”.

Am I understanding this guy correctly? Is he actually advocating the planned extinction of several hundred species of animals because he thinks having a pet is unethical?
I’m not getting that at all. Where on earth are you seeing ‘several hundred species?’