Gosh, it sounds like someone has some anger issues. Have you tried therapy yet, sweetheart? Maybe you should look into it.

Like I said, PETA and PETA's President could care less what people like you think. PETA has over 800,000 members, and those people (and the hundreds that join everyday) help us out with what we need. The only thing nitwits like you do is make us want to work harder on our causes. So thanks for the encouragement, hon. Now go take your meds, and maybe you'll calm down a little.

Based on the limited reading I have done (on the USDA sites and some of the AVMA sites plus a few others) and what my vet told me, its not an acceptable method for dogs and cats. I have read it being ok for small rodents (guinea pigs, mice, rats, hamsters, etc) but my vet told me never to use the CO2 chamber to put down a rabbit (not like I had planned to). Something about a rabbits lungs being very sensitive and that it actually causes pain to rabbits and takes an hour to kill them. Haven't heard if its ok for chickens so I am not sure on that. I also have never seen it mentioned as an approved way of putting down ferrets (not that I have really looked) so I am not sure about them either.

by all means put up the link. I've written twice to no avail. :)

In all fairness, if none of these better funded news sites ever hears of or picks up a story, you won't find anything about it there. It's possible that CNN and ABC never ran with it. Even if PETA went to them with a statement, it depends on what else is going on in the world whether or not they run the story. The Olympics, Federal developments, war developments and presidential campaign developments are trumping just about everything else at the moment. And after the feds, the war and the pres. race, there's very little time left on the standard 30 minute broadcast for anything else. And if they do run it, they will make edits to allot for time, they'll paraphrase or take snippets of quotes. I guess the bottom line is, even with these news sites, it's difficult for the viewer to get a good line on a story that isn't part of the public focus right now.

Admittedly, I haven't looked at all those sites, mainly because I'm at work and have to budget my 'playtime' on the web, but (and this question is for anyone, not just Garnet) does it appear that these quotes were taken from an issued statement? Or were they noted during a speech or rally or taken from a personal interview?