PETA is a high kill shelter. Not sure what their affiliates are like, but they have a terrible track record of treating animals fairly.
There’s a massive smear campaign against PETA and not all the criticism the organization receives is deserved.
Center for Organizational Research and Education
The Center for Organizational Research and Education (CORE), formerly the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) and prior to that the Guest Choice Network, is an American non-profit entity founded by Richard Berman. It describes itself as “dedicated to protecting consumer choices and promoting common sense.”
Projects and campaigns of CORE include Humane Watch, a watchdog of the Humane Society of the United States; the Environmental Policy Alliance, which criticizes environmental activists; and Activist Facts, a site dedicated to tracking tax-exempt nonprofits. The Center for the Environment and Welfare (CEW) is a newer group connected to CORE and to Berman and Company that attacks animal rights, animal welfare and environmentalist organizations.
The organization defends the alcohol, meat, and tobacco industries and has been critical of organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Humane Society of the United States, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Berman himself has described his organization’s preferred tactics, many of which are characteristic of disinformation attacks. These include marginalizing your opponent, “making it personal”, being “nasty”, manipulating people through “fear and anger”, branding movements as “not credible”, undermining moral authority, and giving corporations “total anonymity.”
In 2020, CCF launched a campaign targeting plant-based meat products like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. CCF claims the plant-based meat is nothing more than “ultra-processed imitations.” The organization has run full-page ads in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal—in one comparing the product contents to dog food. The Center for Consumer Freedom also conducts polling, including one from 2021 which found that 73 percent of nutritionists don’t recommend fake meat. Several articles have stated that CCF’s campaign against plant-based meat contributed to the industry’s dip in 2023, including Plant Based News which called CCF’s campaigns “a far more significant issue than the article implies.”
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has responded "If you are in the business of putting veal or beef on the tables of America, and slaughtering more than a million animals per hour, and making an awful lot of money at it, you are going to try to neutralize PETA or other animal-rights groups
I’m old, they’ve had a bad rap for decades. This isn’t a new thing. They take animals from people, rightly or wrongly, and more often than not kill them rather than care for them or see them to a place of safety.