Niiiiiiiice. i <3 Penn & Teller.
Even locally PETA has affected my community. We have an illegal (yes, illegal!) no-kill animal shelter here in town. It is privately owned and funded, with no help from local or county government. PETA sent in undercover people with cameras to check it out and document the poor conditions at the place. Then they took all their video, notes, and other evidence and turned it over to the cops. Did they stay awhile and volunteer at the shelter? Did they donate money to help legalize the shelter? Did they help walk dogs, clean litterboxes, or build better kennels and doghouses? No. They simply walked around without identifying themselves, then ran to the cops. If they had been successful, the owners would have been arrested and all the animals would have been confiscated and immediately killed, which I guess is the idea. I suppose they spend too much money on their costumes for any to be left over for the animals who really need it.
PETA did initially offer to take some of the animals, but the shelter owners turned them down. . . think this might be why?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/23/EDG11DC9BK1.DTL
Even locally PETA has affected my community. We have an illegal (yes, illegal!) no-kill animal shelter here in town. It is privately owned and funded, with no help from local or county government. PETA sent in undercover people with cameras to check it out and document the poor conditions at the place. Then they took all their video, notes, and other evidence and turned it over to the cops. Did they stay awhile and volunteer at the shelter? Did they donate money to help legalize the shelter? Did they help walk dogs, clean litterboxes, or build better kennels and doghouses? No. They simply walked around without identifying themselves, then ran to the cops. If they had been successful, the owners would have been arrested and all the animals would have been confiscated and immediately killed, which I guess is the idea. I suppose they spend too much money on their costumes for any to be left over for the animals who really need it.
PETA did initially offer to take some of the animals, but the shelter owners turned them down. . . think this might be why?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/23/EDG11DC9BK1.DTL
A 2003 New Yorker profile included PETA top dog Ingrid Newkirk's story of how she became involved in animal rights after a shelter put down stray kittens she brought there. So she went to work for an animal shelter in the 1970s, where, she explained, "I would go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself. Because I couldn't stand to let them go through (other workers abusing the animals.) I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day."