Don't ring PETA's bell if you're looking for sanity.
Posted on 01/15/2008 8:39:24 AM PST by Clint N. Suhks
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
Don't ring PETA's bell if you're looking for sanity.
Dysfunction is a byproduct of Liberalism.
But....this is a stat about PETA, generated by PETA. Did they *really* want to put themselves in this bad a light? Are they that stupid?
Psychos
Executing
Trusting
Animals
PETA is clearly a dangerous lunatic cult, complete with a cadre of true believers running little Dachau and Buchenwald death camps out of the back of PETA minivans.
I cannot fathom what sort of perverse and twisted logic would lead the “People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals” to murder almost 3,000 helpless and abandoned canines.
They have accomplished raising hypocrisy to a whole new level. That's something.
Is that a trick question?
Liberal best intentions gone wrong every time it's tried.
Your local un-funded cat rescue groups do better than that.
Let’s do a little math here... 30 million dollars divided by 12 pets is — $2.5 million per adoption.
PETA:
These are the same people who support murdering
innocent Americans at the rate of 3000 per day
I sent the press release to some friends. Ethical Treatment indeed. The ASPCA does a lot more good here in Fresno.
Not only cats but our near-by small town animal pound (shelter) has an excellent record of placing/adopting out animals, especially dogs. Well run, clean and ethical. (I check up on them fairly often) Very pleased with the dedication of the permanent and volunteer staff.
I noted some obviously older dogs and remarked how they probably didn’t “make the trip” for adoption. One of the staff said that even to his surprise, the adoption rate for the “special needs” dogs was in the 90+ %.
But we’ve always known that PETA and similar organizations propagandize and lie about their activities, nothing new here.
...and you thought is was tofu in the chicken fried rice?
...right next to the pet store. Not kidding.
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