People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
TO INGRID NEWKIRK:
DEMAND of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) By Sharon Lee Davies-Tight aka The Original Animal-Free Chef.
“Not only is PETA against pet ownership, but it kills the vast majority of animals it takes in every year. Since 1998, official government records show that PETA has killed about 40,000 animals. A state inspection found that most animals are killed within 24 hours.”
If you really do perform euthanasia services against unwanted pets and other animals CEASE and DESIST.
Recently I read that PETA mostly can only help small animals, and by ‘help small animals’ I thought you meant not to abuse or destroy or to politic for the end of suffering of small animals. Now I’m thinking you might have meant those that you actually accept into your offices to euthanize. I know people call you, but you need to refer them to somebody else.
You are an animal rights organization and need to get out of the euthanasia business. There are others who can provide the same service and spend more time actually finding homes for these animals.
I’m beginning to also wonder if you’re selling some of these animals to hospitals and clinics that use them for science experiments. If that’s the case, then your efforts to stop animal experimentation aka vivisection are hypocritical when you process then kill those animals yourself.
Sure they don’t endure the long painful process of experimentation, but you kill them none-the-less. Killing should not be a part of who you are as an organization. What message is that giving the rest of the world when you tell them to stop the slaughter, then turn around and participate in that same slaughter of innocents.
I don’t know if you’re licensed to kill or again if you receive financial benefit, but you do need to end the practice and follow your own ideology which is to ‘do no harm’ or as you say, ‘vegans are about ethical treatment of all animals’.
You may also want to consider what ‘cruelty’ means and use words that better fit what you’re describing. Enslavement, torture and slaughter are not cruel. They are horrific. Teasing an animal is cruel, poking an animal with sticks through a fence is cruel. Sending an animal to the slaughter house is horrific.
A cruelty-free diet, what does that mean? Please in future use “a suffer-free diet”. Every human knows what the word suffer means intuitively, since they all experience it, so they can identify with it more readily. Cruelty somehow conjurs up in the mind something that hurts one’s feelings. Slaughter hurts one’s skin and flesh and bones beyond comprehension. Or “a pain-free diet” or a “pain-free” method or pain-less of whatever else you describe.
Thank you for your relentless efforts to help all those who suffer. I will always be in your debt for your self-less sacrifices. Please keep growing and I’ll be there right beside you.
Sharon Lee Davies-Tight, The Animal-Free Chef, as always, at your service
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