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PETA killed 97% of pets up for adoption in 2006
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:18 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Death toll up to 17,400; overdue report describes PETA's deadliest year ever
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An official report from People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), submitted nine months after a Virginia government agency's deadline, shows that the animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets it took in for adoption in 2006. During that year, the well-known animal rights group managed to find adoptive homes for just 12 pets. The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is calling on PETA to either end its hypocritical angel-of-death program, or stop its senseless condemnation of Americans who believe it's perfectly ethical to use animals for food, clothing, and critical medical research.
Not counting animals PETA held only temporarily in its spay-neuter program, the organization took in 3,061 "companion animals" in 2006, of which it killed 2,981. According to Virginia's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), the average euthanasia rate for humane societies in the state was just 34.7 percent in 2006. PETA killed 97.4 percent of the animals it took in. The organization filed its 2006 report this month, nine months after the VDACS deadline of March 31, 2007.
"Pet lovers should be outraged," said CCF Director of Research David Martosko. "There are thousands of worthwhile animal shelters that deserve Americans' support. PETA is not one of them."
In courtroom testimony last year, a PETA manager acknowledged that her organization maintains a large walk-in freezer for storing dead animals, and that PETA contracts with a Virginia cremation service to dispose of the bodies. In that trial, two PETA employees were convicted of dumping dead animals in a rural North Carolina trash dumpster.
Today in Southampton County, Virginia, another PETA employee will face felony charges in a dog-napping case. Andrea Florence Benoit Harris was arrested in late 2006 for allegedly abducting a hunting dog and attempting to transport it to PETA's Norfolk headquarters.
"PETA raised over $30 million last year," Martosko added, "and it's using that money to kill the only flesh-and-blood animals its employees actually see. The scale of PETA's hypocrisy is simply staggering."
To speak with a spokesman contact Tim Miller at 202-463-7112.
For more information about PETA's massive euthanasia program, visit
http://www.PetaKillsAnimals.com.
Well that's....unexpected. I've never particularly liked this group, but I wouldn't have expected this.
Source
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:21 pm
by Reliant121
Sweet Jesus! (no offense to the religious of you)
Well that was...a twist in the plot...
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:26 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Indeed. Quite unexpected.
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:28 pm
by Reliant121
How the bloody hell can a organization be so hypocratic!!!
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:31 pm
by Sionnach Glic
It's PETA. They were never exactly the greatest bunch around. Though you're right that they're being incredibly hypocritical.
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:16 pm
by Teaos
I have always hated PETA and have long known about this and other things they try to hide from the public.
PETA and Greenpeace aldeserve to die slow and painful deaths for the crimes they have commited against nature and humanity (I'm not joking)
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:40 pm
by Sionnach Glic
I think this is one of those rare instances in which we agree on something, Teaos. Both of those organisations have done precisely nothing but cause harm and disrupt things, helping neither people, the enviroment, or animals.
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:26 pm
by Jordanis
I've known this for years. PETA's real mission is to remove all animals from human control. Livestock, pets, test animals, the works. They don't talk about it much since that goal is so unpopular. They consider an animal dead to be better than an animal in human hands. Don't ask me, I don't know what the hell they're thinking. They pass money to out-and-out animal rights terrorist organizations as well.
Also, their second-in-command is diabetic, and uses insulin derived from research on pigs, which they oppose vehemently.
A good resource for finding out about how PETA sucks is
http://petakillsanimals.com/
They managed to get a billboard up in Times square for a while, which was pretty funny.
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:54 pm
by Sionnach Glic
That link was included in the story, you know.
Though it's really quite suprising. I knew they were a bunch of hypocritical asses, but I never thought they were
that bad.
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:08 am
by Jordanis
Rochey wrote:That link was included in the story, you know.
Though it's really quite suprising. I knew they were a bunch of hypocritical asses, but I never thought they were
that bad.
I missed that (obviously
). Mostly because I'd heard about the major information in this article before and didn't actually read it. Oops.
(Your link is broken, though)
They are that bad, in any case. The writings of their director are hilarious and horrifying at the same time. Basically, hilarious until it gets through your head that she's serious.
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:27 am
by Mikey
I also always knew that they were a bunch of worse-than-useless lunatics, but this is just terrible. If you take in tha many animals and only advertise with a 4'x5' sign on the road, you'd have more animals than that adopted by accident!
This is a perfect example of why extremism is inherently hypocritical and flawed, and of how extremist groups discredit all the true efforts towards what could be a decent cause.
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:34 pm
by Monroe
Wow that's pretty bad.
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:29 pm
by sunnyside
I think Jordanis is right about their real goal though. I've known about the shelter thing. And groups like them are also known for "releasing" animals into the wild from facilities when.
1. The animals have no idea how to live in the wild.
2. The may not be in their natural habitat and thus freeze or some such even if they find food.
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:40 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Indeed. These morons just end up doing more harm than good.
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:21 pm
by Tsukiyumi
Hopefully, they at least get turned into hotdogs.
Just kidding, guys.