I came across this article entitled, "
PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008." For those who are unfamiliar, PETA stands for
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA's slogan is "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment." The organization focuses on four core issues: factory farming, fur farming, animal testing, and animals in entertainment.
From the article:
Hypocritical Animal Rights Group’s 2008 Disclosures Bring Pet Death Toll To 21,339. oday 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?”
I'm sure people pick on PETA because they probably rub some people their wrong way because they're usually perceived as extreme and/or militant. I mean, if you look at PETA's website, their leader wants the meat from her body to be used for a human barbeque to highlight that eating meat is wrong. This is also the same organization that launched a PR campaign, telling people that we should call fish, "
sea-kittens", in hopes that people would stop eating fish if they thought fish were cute and cuddly like kittens.