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Not to beat a dead horse...

kthappy76kthappy76
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But maybe we should, it would piss off PETA to no end...  They ARE just publicity hounds using IF to further their own cause.  Sickening, I wish RESOLVE could sue their pants off...

From their Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150209811045250

Thank you for contacting PETA about our contest offering a free vasectomy. We meant no offense to those who are struggling to conceive. Please know that there are many people who wish to be sterilized?it?s those people that we?re aiming to reach. To learn more about this contest, please go to https://www.PETA.org/features/win-a-vasectomy-from-peta.aspx.

Since the best way to prevent animal companions from having unwanted litters is to spay and neuter them, a kind PETA member offered to cover the cost of a vasectomy for one compassionate man who wants to get himself ?snipped? just like his furry friend. While humans can manage their reproductive urges and make informed choices, dogs and cats can?t?we must take responsibility for them. In addition, men are often particularly reluctant to neuter male dogs?a ridiculous hesitation given that Fido won?t notice the change and will be healthier for it.

We know that this offer might raise a few eyebrows, but it will also raise awareness by generating the kind of media coverage of the cat and dog overpopulation crisis that money could never buy. In addition to our more outrageous actions, PETA also educates the public about the need to spay and neuter through pamphlets, billboards, letters to the editor, ads, articles, public demonstrations, and humane education in schools. We also put our words into action: PETA?s three mobile spay-and-neuter clinics have performed tens of thousands of low-cost and free sterilizations in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. Since starting our first mobile clinic in 2001, we have sterilized more than 67,000 animals, including 10,500 in 2010 alone.

 

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Re: Not to beat a dead horse...

  • nikinikininenikinikinine member

    maybe all of the IF community should rally together and wear fur coats or something ;)

    Seriously though. There is nothing we can do that is as hurtful because I don't think a single one of us would harm an animal to prove some stupid point. Why are they harming (emotionally) a whole group of people who have already suffered enough? 

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  • kthappy76kthappy76
    imagenikinikinine:

    Why are they harming (emotionally) a whole group of people who have already suffered enough? 

    Because apparently controlling the animal population is more important to them than the feelings of one in eight people.  I hope this completely backfires on them and they lose tons of funding.

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    5 REs + 3 surgical hysteroscopies for septum/lap + 3 failed IUIs
    IVF w/ICSI/AH & acu = BFP!, unexplained spontaneous m/c @ 8w2d (our little girl),
    FET w/acu = BFP!, B/G twins!, lost MP @19w, dx w/funneling cervix @20w,
    twins nearly lost to IC @21w, saved by rescue cerclage, 17P & 16w of bedrest
    Our twins born @36w4d via CS when A came foot first

    Thankful for every day

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  • inlovewithBinlovewithB
    I wasn't able to make a comment on the FB page? Absolutely horrible I will forever HATE peta!!
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  • Nature LoverNature Lover
    Maybe they should set up a mobile sterilization unit for people! They disgust me. And this is one horse that is not yet dead (they're still tuning their contest) so beat away!
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  • 3citygirl3citygirl
    I am forever over PETA.  
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    The whole ridiculous thing makes me sick.
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