I am heartsick about PETA"s actions.
I've always respected and admired PETA for the fabulous work they have done in raising awareness about cruelty to animals, including vivisection, zoos, circuses, animal laboratory testing and so on.
Which may explain why I just can't get my head around the PETA sanctioned killing that Hinkle and Cook are on trial for.
Part of me expected that such a large organization could not have 100% ethical staff or volunteers.

But it appears to me that PETA as a whole, has strongly immoral policies. They have killed over 14,000 animals in the past few years. They have paid employees such as Hinkle and Cook to mislead people into handing over animals, some of them young and vigorous, and some harder to find homes for.

PETA is sanctioning this killing, paying for the killing, paying employees to do the killing, and paying for the lawyers to defend them in court - is this what PETA stands for in the end?
Does all their good work "balance" this out somehow? I don't think so.
Does the killing that Hinkle and Cook (and likely others) are responsible for, negate the good work that PETA has done? I don't know.