| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Earle Bingley | Once again the SPCA condones the eating of animals to raise funds to protect animals.
That is the ultimate meaning of: IRONIC
Shame on the SPCA |
| 2 | Kathy Watson | Bow your heads in shame. Prevention of cruelty, and fostering attitudes of caring and compassion, should extend to ALL animals. |
| 3 | Patrizia | |
| 4 | Marco | |
| 5 | Trudi Rankin | Obviously not a real animal charity to encourage slaghtering other animals for food. |
| 6 | Judith Swain | |
| 7 | Nathan Roche | The institutionalized animal cruelty and commodification of sentient beings in the meat industry is as evil as abusing cats and dogs |
| 8 | elizabeth kyle | all the way, people |
| 9 | Menkit Prince | I don't understand why the SPCA can't have tofu sausages, weiners, fake chicken and bacon, marinated tofu etc at their BAR-B-Qs instead of dead animal flesh. It's time they looked at the horrific slaughterhouse video footage and realized what double standards they have. Wake up SPCA! And that includes all animal welfare groups on the planet. |
| 10 | April Scoggins | |
| 11 | Betty Jean Herner | I don't believe in eaiing aniamls |
| 12 | Carol Marcus | Who do you eat & who do you pet?? |
| 13 | Patricia Salazar Luna | It is controversial and unethical that you raise funds accepting the killing of other animals. These is against the policy and moral accomplishment your organization acquired. Organize events with non animal products on the menu. |
| 14 | Anonymous | I agree wholeheartedly with the text of the petition. No one that eats meat truly cares and loves animals. To call oneself an advocate of animals, and yet turn around and eat them is pure hypocrisy. Unfortunately most people are like that (we are disgusted if our pets are treated badly, yet we have no problem sitting on thanksgiving with a dead bird in front of us and call it a holiday). Personally, I am a vegetarian, and have been for a long time. Do the right thing and extend your compassion towards ALL animals. |
| 15 | Fran Gallante | This is barbaric. You support NO CRUELTY to Animals , then you eat them? Would you eat your neighbor? Get real here. If you are saving animals , save them all! |
| 16 | Sinikka Crosland | Let's look at this from the perspective of the animals. Factory farming situations are far from being humane. Dying in terror in a slaughterhouse is not a "kind" ending when one is a sentient being. It is time for the SPCA to include animals other than cats and dogs under their protective umbrella, and to end the hypocrisy of helping some chosen species while contributing to the mass killing of others. |
| 17 | Deb Gleason | No more serving animals to save animals please. |
| 18 | Brent Forder | We're not saying all members of the SPCA should immediately adopt a vegan/vegetarian diet, but it is a huge double-standard to say that you are working to prevent cruelty against animals while actually promoting cruelty to animals on the other hand. |
| 19 | Dian Hardy | Killing some animals to save other animals is insane. Please make appropriate amendments to your fundraisers. ALL animals are deserving of compassion! |
| 20 | prad basu | The SPCAs do a lot of good work, but for some reason don't seem to realize that cows, pigs, fish and crabs are also animals and hence entitled to 'Protection from Cruelty'. |
| 21 | Eli Kohnert | there is a hypocracy in these fundraisers - that I am certain, has hardly ben noticed by the SPCA Fundraising Committees - the animals that were slaughtered to produce 'Hot Dogs' - lived and died under human imposed cruelty - there MUST be 'cruelty Free' fundraising opportunities - it takes imagination and - true compassion - something that appears in short supply with the organization. |
| 22 | lee niesig | to save animals you must destroy other animals?what is wrong with this picture . |
| 23 | Melissa Murphy | "Food" animals experience fear and pain just like companion animals do. The BC-SPCA should recognize the hypocrisy of using meat products as a fundraising gimic. |
| 24 | Eileen Weintraub | |
| 25 | Kerry McQuaide | I have to ask myself why an organisation that promotes animal welfare contributes towards animal suffering! Have the SPCA become a money making machine like so many others? I am just so disgusted by this - get your priorities straight!!!! No way will I be donating any more funds towards this organisation! |
| 26 | Marion Eaton | How do you love your animals best? Baked, boiled or raw?
How glad am I that you don't love me!!! |
| 27 | Anonymous | |
| 28 | Anonymous | SPCA fundraising = hypocritical. 'Animals' encompass more than just dogs, cats, and rabbits. I'm very disappointed and will not be supporting the SPCA financially until they become the society they purport to be.
S.D.
British Columbia |
| 29 | Michael Alvarez-Toye | Signed on behalf of the Calgary Animal Rights Coalition.
Perhaps ALL SPCAs can take such a proactive, enlightened, and ethical stance. |
| 30 | Alice Hooper | I think this is an opportunity to examine what our values are when it comes to "cruelty to animals". Personally, I do not want to contribute to cruelty to animals or any livng being and based on information that I have read and seen, I include the slaughter of animals as being cruel and unnecessary. I have been a vegetarian for 11 years and am in better health now than I was before. Since there is cruelty in slaughter houses I will not eat meat. The SPCA is in a unique position as an organization that wants to prevent cruelty to "animals". It does not say "pets". Perhaps they need to reevaluate their name or their values so that the two are congruent. Thank you. |
| 31 | Lynwyn Aebli | So sad that an organization will exploit one animal to "benefit" another. Why not have a vegetarian fundraiser?! |
| 32 | Maria Borremans | Isn't it a bit contradictory and even ridiculous trying to save some species of animals while taking part in the slaughter of other species? |
| 33 | Anita Carswell | |
| 34 | Dr Sandeep K Jain | |
| 35 | Jose Waechter | Some idiots don't see the contrdiction |
| 36 | Nicola Newington | |
| 37 | Anonymous | |
| 38 | Lisa Diana | |
| 39 | Denise Bennett | This is sick. There has to be "something missing" to even contemplate doing this. I went to my local animal home recently. It was a fund raising day and all food was vegan. |
| 40 | Jane Roberts | All animals suffer. It is hypocritical in the extreme to eat animals to fund raise for the fluffy ones. |
| 41 | Gaye UK | What about factory farming - the worlds biggest animal killer and cruel beyond belief. Why do you care about some animals but not others? Jeez, get it off your menu. |
| 42 | Paul Watson | I wonder what some people think these words mean? SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, ducks, fish and crabs are animals. The process of raising them or catching and transporting them slaughter is cruel. So how can a Society dedicated to opposing cruelty participate in cruelty for the purpose of preventing cruelty. Very strange. |
| 43 | Tyler Adams | They have to be told this? Are you going to check their other policies and change eveyone of them with a petition? Good luck!! |
| 44 | Deb Ozarko | Is the SPCA the Society for the PREVENTION of Cruelty to Animals or is it the Society for the PROMOTION of Cruelty to Animals? Currently it is confusing while serving dead animal carcasses disguised as "food" to people who care to help dogs and cats. The word "animal" comes from the Latin word animal, of which animalia is the plural, and ultimately from anima, meaning vital breath or soul. Personally I see far more than dogs and cats as having "vital breath or soul". Come on SPCA, make your message consistent and stop promoting killing! |
| 45 | The Council Animal Advocacy (CLAW) | "We speak for those unable to speak for themselves" - It is unethical and thus inappropriate for an organization dedicated to abating Animal Cruelty to use Animals killed, the cruelest act of all, to raise money to assist in preventing cruelty to other species of Animals. |
| 46 | Stephan | "Doggie Bobbin" as a fund raiser for the SPCA? Come on, that's a joke, yes? |
| 47 | Valerie Elliott | It doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine that promoting this event should have no reference to EATING "dogs" or any meat. The PR folks should be advising appropriately that even the concept of a BBQ or bobbing for weiners is a danger to their reputation, as well as a disgusting concept.
I question if the SPCA is in business to protect animals or eat them! I'll keep my dogs and cats far away from the SPCA from now on, as well as my donations until they change their fundraising themes. |
| 48 | Maria Daines | |
| 49 | Roxanne Acosta | |
| 50 | Judith Duggan | |