Lyn MacDonald's post is right on the mark, and also leaves us in a dilemma: how do we partially support an organization that does wonderful work on one hand and kills unnecessarily on the other?

The second part of this puzzle leaves us scrambling to find another group of activists to support who are perfectly faultless, who have the same mandates towards animal welfare that we all require, who do not take exorbitant salaries, who are as well-known and widespread and carry the same clout, and best of all, have as huge a funding base as PETA.

I am no longer playing devil's advocate here; I am truly seeking just such an organization in order to lend my support. There are, indeed, wonderful grass-roots rescuers and movements out here, such as AAS and Second Chances and Big Heart, just to name a few, and I am so grateful to them for their unending dedication. I am sure they would agree, too, that we need the power and public image of a PETA-like group to have the impact needed to change the consumers' mentality towards animal testing on products, the public's attitudes towards animal cruelty and the scientific community's opinions on vivisection, etc.

I'm beginning to think that my original post here is raising more questions than answers in my frazzled brain.