Quotes About Euthanizing

of the benefits of spaying and neutering, it wasn't until the 1990s that their catchy tag line, "Less born, less killed, less cruelty," really caught on. In the 1980s, shelters were euthanizing twenty million animals each year. But then birth rates dropped and admission rates dropped, and today, while the three to four million animals they kill annually is a slaughter, it's also a significant improvement over the massacre that came before.

One of PETA's agenda items is the extinction of problem breeds like the pit bull; the claim is that making them extinct is the only way to protect the animals from abuse. Apparently the problem of abuse is not one that involves the behavior of the abusive human. Following this line of "ethical" thinking, the problem of divorce should be solved by banning marriage, and child abuse is best addressed by euthanizing children.

Nothing. But who shuts down a machine with five years uptime? That's like euthanizing your grandmother.