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The equivalent organisation in the UK, the RSPCA, has similar troubles. A couple of years back they tried prosecuting a 5 year old girl and her family for cruel
by blowski 9y ago
The equivalent organisation in the UK, the RSPCA, has similar troubles. A couple of years back they tried prosecuting a 5 year old girl and her family for cruelty to a hamster for no obvious reason.
edit: I stand corrected that PETA are generally much more extreme than the RSPCA
- dragonwriter 9y agoThe RSPCA has always seemed more similar to the SPCA than PETA. They may be overzealous in prosecuting animal cruelty, but I've never heard of widespread action by RSPCA or SPCA practicing animal cruelty based on their political viewpoint. PETA takes the position that animals are better dead than kept as pets, and because of that they don't merely kill many animals given to them, they've been known ro actively take adoptable animals from shelters to kill them.
- blowski 9y agoWow, I didn't know that, thanks for mentioning it.
- Nexxxeh 9y agoI think comparing PETA with the RSPCA is a bit of a stretch. PETA are closer to an extreme wing of The Vegan Society. The RSPCA do have issues. Yet they remain important protectors of animal welfare. They also arguably predate our police forces as we'd know them today.