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Originally Posted by Woogie Man  Thanks, Ann, for a most reasonable post. For myself, my original post summed up my opinion most accurately. I don't know what the answer is, I just see the numbers as being too high under any circumstance. To take the explanation you are offering seems to take a little faith in PETA's honesty and transparency that I just don't have. I cannot fathom a justifiable 90+% kill rate no matter the source of these animals. Do you really think it's such a clear either/or circumstance in all these cases? Possibly, I suppose, but I guess anyone that isn't there can never really know. I won't quote any more data from 'questionable' sources but folks are free to browse for themselves. I will try to become more informed on the specifics of the issue from all available sources and am open to anyone presenting unbiased information. I try to keep an open mind about any issue and this is no exception. Thanks again for your post. I know that you and I are able to disagree on some things without being disagreeable....Jim |
I understand where those numbers would be a shock. I also understand folks not having faith in PETA's transparency - PETA is very alienating to a LOT of people and I really do understand where it comes from.
I think the issue w/ the numbers/stats is their source - the CCF is kind of...I don't know how to label them really - but they kinda scare me. And,
I know 
, PETA scares you and others
. What scares me about stats from CCF is that they've been caught before inventing stats, so I just fear anything they present as fact.
I do expect PETA to have a rather unimaginable death/euth. rate bc their investigators will actually *sneak* animals out, if they
must for the worst, during investigations - they've done stories about this. So honestly, even if they had a 90% euth rate - it wouldn't totally surprise me based upon the level of severity in the cases they attend.
At the end of the day, any death rate is sad - I guess all we can do is offer support according to our comfort level and keep hoping someday we'll be talking about "euthanasia rate" like we now talk about 8-track tapes, which don't really exist anymore. We can hope anyway.