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WASHINGTON DC – Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters.

According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.

Despite having a $32 million budget, PETA does not operate an adoption shelter. PETA employees make no discernible effort to find homes for the thousands of pets they kill every year. Last year, the Center for Consumer Freedom petitioned Virginia’s State Veterinarian to reclassify PETA as a slaughterhouse.

CCF Research Director David Martosko said: “PETA hasn’t slowed down its hypocritical killing machine one bit, but it keeps browbeating the rest of society with a phony ‘animal rights’ message. What about the rights of the thousands of dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens that die in PETA’s headquarters building?”

Martosko added: “Since killing pets is A-OK with PETA, why should anyone listen to their demands about eating meat, using lab rats for medical research, or taking children to the circus?”

CCF obtained PETA’s “Animal Record” filings since 1998 from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Members of the public can see these documents at PetaKillsAnimals.com.

(Skeptical? Click here to see the documents.)

In addition to exposing PETA’s hypocritical record of killing defenseless animals, the Center for Consumer Freedom has publicized the animal rights group’s ties to violent activists, and shed light on its aggressive message-marketing to children.

Juan_Bottom wrote:http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/258

PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008
Hypocritical Animal Rights Group’s 2008 Disclosures Bring Pet Death Toll To 21,339

WASHINGTON DC – Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters.

According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.

Despite having a $32 million budget, PETA does not operate an adoption shelter. PETA employees make no discernible effort to find homes for the thousands of pets they kill every year. Last year, the Center for Consumer Freedom petitioned Virginia’s State Veterinarian to reclassify PETA as a slaughterhouse.

CCF Research Director David Martosko said: “PETA hasn’t slowed down its hypocritical killing machine one bit, but it keeps browbeating the rest of society with a phony ‘animal rights’ message. What about the rights of the thousands of dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens that die in PETA’s headquarters building?”

Martosko added: “Since killing pets is A-OK with PETA, why should anyone listen to their demands about eating meat, using lab rats for medical research, or taking children to the circus?”

CCF obtained PETA’s “Animal Record” filings since 1998 from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Members of the public can see these documents at PetaKillsAnimals.com.

(Skeptical? Click here to see the documents.)

In addition to exposing PETA’s hypocritical record of killing defenseless animals, the Center for Consumer Freedom has publicized the animal rights group’s ties to violent activists, and shed light on its aggressive message-marketing to children.

Is it hypocritical??? I dunno but seriously, lol @ PETA! That's what you get for sending me that flyer that stopped me from enjoying milk for 4 months. a**holes.

Juan_Bottom wrote:You asked for it.
Cow milk is tested many times before it reaches the store fridges. One of the tests is the "milk puss test" to see exactly how much of the milk is puss. Appearantly milk is made out of large amounts of pus. The flyer showed pics and everything. Luckely I grew up on a farm so nothing could turn me away from milk permenantly.

b.k. barunt wrote:So what pets were you getting milk from?

jonesthecurl wrote:PETA is an organisation I never heard of before arriving in the U.S.
Are they Vegans?
Some vegans want all pets exterminated (they call it something else) as having a wild animal in your home is "unnatural" and "cruel". Obviously all farm animals would be killed off too, since nobody's gonna raise those animals if no-one's gonna eat them.

Juan_Bottom wrote:You asked for it.
Cow milk is tested many times before it reaches the store fridges. One of the tests is the "milk puss test" to see exactly how much of the milk is puss. Appearantly milk is made out of large amounts of puss. The flyer showed pics and everything. Luckely I grew up on a farm so nothing could turn me away from milk permenantly.

PLAYER57832 wrote:

jonesthecurl wrote:PETA is an organisation I never heard of before arriving in the U.S.
Are they Vegans?
Some vegans want all pets exterminated (they call it something else) as having a wild animal in your home is "unnatural" and "cruel". Obviously all farm animals would be killed off too, since nobody's gonna raise those animals if no-one's gonna eat them.

People for the ethical treatment of animals is their name. They don't believe in killing pets or anything else, supposedly.

But .. you raise an interesting point. I have said many times over that farm animals are one thing in no danger of extinction. The easiest way to ensure animals thrive is to find ways they can be directly useful to human beings. Then"extinction" just does not seem to happen

MeDeFe wrote:Newsflash!

100% of all living beings will die!

TheProwler wrote:I think PETA thinks it is more humane to euthanize cats and dogs than let them live as pets. I am not sure of their official stance, but I think PETA would prefer that people do not have dogs and cats as pets.

I actually agree with PETA on some of their battles. But they are extremists and much of what they do is overboard, in my opinion.

I will say that I support local farmers and I am against factory farming. I think that we should provide a decent quality of life for animals before we kill them for food.

Spay and neuter your pets. There are too many unwanted dogs and cats and if you are adding new pets to the population, it is simple math. X number of homes for pets. Y number of pets. Y>X, so Y-X have to be killed. If you add a litter to the population, it is that many that have to be killed to make room.

TheProwler wrote:I think PETA thinks it is more humane to euthanize cats and dogs than let them live as pets. I am not sure of their official stance, but I think PETA would prefer that people do not have dogs and cats as pets.

TheProwler wrote:I actually agree with PETA on some of their battles. But they are extremists and much of what they do is overboard, in my opinion.

I will say that I support local farmers and I am against factory farming. I think that we should provide a decent quality of life for animals before we kill them for food.

Spay and neuter your pets. There are too many unwanted dogs and cats and if you are adding new pets to the population, it is simple math. X number of homes for pets. Y number of pets. Y>X, so Y-X have to be killed. If you add a litter to the population, it is that many that have to be killed to make room.

PLAYER57832 wrote:

TheProwler wrote:I think PETA thinks it is more humane to euthanize cats and dogs than let them live as pets. I am not sure of their official stance, but I think PETA would prefer that people do not have dogs and cats as pets.

I don't agree here. Dogs are in no way wild animals any longer.

PLAYER57832 wrote:

TheProwler wrote:I think PETA thinks it is more humane to euthanize cats and dogs than let them live as pets. I am not sure of their official stance, but I think PETA would prefer that people do not have dogs and cats as pets.

I don't agree here. Dogs are in no way wild animals any longer. I do think extreme and over-breeding is an issue, but dogs and cats are quite happy in their associations with humans. There is no other place for them to be.

TheProwler wrote: I am speaking mostly about contentment and how a dog or cat would prefer to live.

b.k. barunt wrote:

PLAYER57832 wrote:

TheProwler wrote:I think PETA thinks it is more humane to euthanize cats and dogs than let them live as pets. I am not sure of their official stance, but I think PETA would prefer that people do not have dogs and cats as pets.

I don't agree here. Dogs are in no way wild animals any longer.

My parents live in the mountains above Grass Valley, CA. When i go to visit them i walk up the mountain about 100 yds and sleep out in the open in a sleeping bag. There's a few bears and cougars around, but i wasn't concerned enough to sleep with more than a hunting knife, until i had a pack of 7 or 8 dogs run within 50 ft of me one night. I'd heard of these dogs from my parents, and they were simply pets from surrounding homes of well to do yuppies and retirees who live up there to get away from the cities, but certain nights they would run together. They would take down deer regularly and one time chased a bear and treed it. A couple times they menaced people - one climbed a tree and one made it to his car in time - both times the people reported that the dogs attacked viciously. I slept with a pistol after that night.

All domesticated animals are capable of reverting, given the right circumstances - hell i've seen people revert to savage behavior quite a few times. Don't ever make the mistake of considering a dog to be less than what it is - a wild animal that has been temporarily tamed.


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