Posted: Mar 05, 2010 3:00 pm
tnjrp wrote:I don't know much about PETA personally but they've been accused of taking part in some "better dead than pet" campaigns, such as poisoning dogs at some American dog shows with antifreeze (you find precious little love for PETA on any of the US-based show dog folk forums or mailing lists...). Obviously I can't corroborate that but the very idea does make me a bit leery of them my must admit
Don't get me wrong, I fucking hat dog show people also, I watched a very good BBC doc on how all the purebred dogs a riddled with disease and genetic weaknesses (which I knew already) but it was that the dog breeders were perfectly ok with this as long as they looked the way they "should" i.e. humans had decided they should in some dog catalogue.
Here it is...
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/pedigree-dogs-exposed/
If that link doesn't here's a youtube one;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O0l0f50AAk&feature=fvw
Despite thinking that this is very very wrong, it doesn't change my opinion that PETA are a bunch of attention seeking knob jockeys.