Quote Originally Posted by Crazy4Herps View Post
I keep hearing this and I'm interested to know how much of it is speculation. I have trouble seeing how ending pet ownership would benefit these organizations. I understand anti-reptile organizations being motivated by fear, but ending all pet ownership? Why would they take that stance? I'm not discrediting or attacking your post in any way, I'd simply be interested in seeing your sources.
I may be putting words in their mouths as they often do for us, but PETA is very anti breeders and in a world with only spayed/neutered "companion animals" they die out pretty quick. If you read PETA's stance on keeping pets you can see how they think keeping domestic pets is cruel. http://www.peta.org/about/why-peta/pets.aspx

I don't have a link from HSUS handy, but I have seen some very negative quotes floating around from the CEO of HSUS.