I've been emailing PETA three times a day for a week. My question was whether they would support a bill that if passed could promote skinning our pets and/or selling the meat for food to recoup our losses. Being they are fighting against us I thought this info would be useful.
Here is their response. We'll see what comes of this but it would supposedly put them on the fence if bill promotes this....
Dear Mr. Beilstein,
Thank you for contacting PETA again. We appreciate your concern about reptiles who are killed for their skins.
PETA is an animal rights organization that believes that animals deserve the most basic rights and consideration of their own best interests regardless of whether they are useful to humans. Like us, they are capable of suffering and have interests in leading their own lives; therefore, they are not ours to use—for food, clothing, entertainment, or experimentation, or for any other reason. Therefore, PETA not only supports legislation that would prohibit people from keeping and/or breeding exotic animals but opposes any bill that would permit killing them for their skins.
To the video exposing the cruelty of the exotic skin trade, please visit http://www.PETATV.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=exotic_skins.
Thank you again for writing and for your concern for this important issue.
Sincerely,
Karen Dickerson
Correspondence Assistant
The PETA Foundation
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