A vegan animal-rights activist who defends PETA’s 90 percent-plus kill rate by attacking others for eating meat is not going to be won over by any discussion of the humane treatment of food animals. “Happy meat” doesn’t play with this crowd.

Same is true of people who insist those of us who believe in the reputable, ethical breeding of our heritage dog and cat breeds have to support puppy mills and factory farms because they believe it’s a “slippery slope” from ending these disgusting animal cruelties to the complete elimination of all domestic animals.

I couldn’t care less about extremists on both sides who drop in and can’t articulate anything beyond off-the-shelf opinions sucked up by drinking their respective brand of Kool-Aid. They come and they go. Please don’t feed the trolls. Thanks.

And if you want to play a numbers game, no, in fact, the number of animals that die to supply the amount of meat I personally consume in a year, is not even remotely comparable to the number that die on the altar of PETA’s hatred of domestic animals.

It’s not even close to being a valid comparison.

Plenty of ‘animal lovers’ though, aka people who love to use animals.

Comment by jojo — July 26, 2008 @ 9:59 pm

Because real animal lovers prefer to kill animals, right jojo? Like PETA does!

These kill numbers are not those of the industry front group. They’re from the Commonwealth of Virginia, required by law to be reported by all shelters.

The fact that the so-called Center for Consumer Freedom was first to report them is irrelevant. PETA kills more than nine of 10 animals that come into its shelter, year after year after year.

THAT is the point. Not how they got reported.

Plenty of ‘animal lovers’ though, aka people who love to use animals.

PETA is a threat to community responsibility by soliciting funds for pet “welfare” but delivering pet death.

PETA is a threat to groups who desperately need funds to actually try and find homes for pets but are underfunded because PETA has cut so deeply into their target market.

Um, to repeat:
And what they want is not a world that has pets, police dogs, guide dogs, house cats, feral cats, any horses, any cattle—any domestic animals at all.

They want to fundamentally change our relationship with animals. Not ensure that animals are humanely treated, but instead to eliminate all use of animals in any way.

No pets—dogs, cats, ferrets, rabbits, nothing.

No guide dogs, no service or assistance animals of any kind. Sorry, blind people, sorry, hearing impaired people, sorry anyone who has an assistance animal of any kind. No use of animals.

No police dogs, no cattle dogs. Not no horse racing, but no horses.

No domestic cats, but no feral cats, either.

Apparently you’re totally cool with that and don’t regard this goal as at all threatening. I do.