Animal-Rights Groups Disagree on Treatment
March 13, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
While groups defending animal rights commonly agree on opposing cruelty to animals, controlling animal populations, and advocating for an end to dogfighting, they don’t agree on the treatment of abused, high-risk animals once rescued, reports The New York Times.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) typically advocates euthanizing rescued fighting dogs, while other groups, such as Best Friends Animal Society, advocates rehabilitation. PETA argues that such animals are unsafe and therefore should be destroyed. Best Friends Animal Society argues that fighting dogs are victims of forced brutality and should not receive death sentences.
The groups’ disagreement over the treatment of rescued fighting dogs came to a head in response to Michael Vick’s dogfighting case last summer, for which he is now serving a 23-month federal sentence.
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