PETA Kills Animals!

PETA Kills Animals!

If the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) were ever to reach its goal and impose "total animal liberation" on the rest of us, meat and dairy foods would become things of the past. The same goes for zoos, aquariums, rodeos, circuses, hunting, fishing, leather, wool, silk, and even lifesaving medical research that requires the use of lab rats.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all credibility problems, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has it in spades. While loudly complaining about the "unethical" treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, the group has its own dirty little secret.

Since 1998, PETA--whose many tasteless campaigns included one telling young children that "Your Mommy Kills Animals"--has killed thousands of animals at its Virginia headquarters, rather than spending a portion of its enormous $29 million annual budget actually caring for them.


Actually, it's PETA that kills animals; despite it's whopping $29 million annual budget, PETA has killed over 10,000 animals since 1998.


PETA's Dirty Secret

From July 1998 through the end of 2003, PETA killed over 10,000 dogs, cats, and other "companion animals" -- at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. That's more than five defenseless animals every day. Not counting the dogs and cats PETA spayed and neutered, the group put to death over 85 percent of the animals it took in during 2003 alone. And its angel-of-death pattern shows no sign of changing.

Year Received† Adopted Killed Transferred % Killed % Adopted
2003 2,224 312 1,911 1 85.9 14.0
2002 2,680 382 2,298 2 85.7 14.3
2001 2,685 703 1,944 14 72.4 26.2
2000 2,684 624 2,029 28 75.6 23.2
1999 1,805 386 1,328 91 73.6 21.4
1998* 943 133 685 125 72.6 14.1
Total 13,021 2,540 10,195 261 78.3 19.5
* figures represent the second half of 1998 only
† other than spay/neuter animals

On its 2002 federal income-tax return, PETA claimed a $9,370 write-off for a giant walk-in freezer, the kind most people use as a meat locker or for ice-cream storage. But animal-rights activists don't eat meat or dairy foods. So far, the group hasn't confirmed the obvious -- that it's using the appliance to store the bodies of its victims.

In 2000, when the Associated Press first noted PETA's Kervorkian-esque tendencies, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk complained that actually taking care of animals costs more than killing them. "We could become a no-kill shelter immediately," she admitted.

PETA kills animals. Because it has other financial priorities.

PETA enjoys nearly $29 million in annual income, much of it raised from pet owners who think their donations actually help animals. Instead, the group spends huge sums on programs equating people who eat chicken with Nazis, scaring young children away from drinking milk, recruiting children into the radical animal-rights lifestyle, and intimidating businessmen and their families in their own neighborhoods. PETA has also spent tens of thousands of dollars defending arsonists and other violent extremists.

PETA claims it engages in outrageous media-seeking stunts "for the animals." But which animals? Carping about the value of future two-piece dinners while administering lethal injections to puppies and kittens isn't ethical. It's hypocritical--with a death toll that PETA would protest if it weren't their own doing.

PETA kills animals, while its leaders dare lecture the rest of us.

In order to spread the word about PETA's stunning hypocrisy, ConsumerFreedom.com has just unveiled a giant billboard in New York City's famed Times Square.

Source: http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
http://www.theomnivore.com/PETA_kills_animals.html

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