March 19, 2010 Exclusive: PETA’s Pet Killing Program Set a New Record in 2009 Public Records: PETA Found Adoptive Homes for Just 1 out of 300 Animals Animal lovers worldwide now have access to more than a decade’s worth of proof that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) kills thousands of defenseless pets at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. Since 1998, PETA has opted to “put down” 23,640 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens instead of finding homes for them. PETA’s “Animal Record” report for 2009, filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, shows that the animal rights group killed 97 percent of the dogs and cats in its care last year. During all of 2009, PETA found adoptive homes for just eight pets. Just eight animals -- out of the 2,366 it took in. PETA just broke its own record. Why would an animal rights group secretly kill animals at its headquarters? PETA’s continued silence on the matter makes it hard to say for sure. But from a cost-saving standpoint, PETA’s hypocrisy isn’t difficult to understand: Killing adoptable cats and dogs – and storing the bodies in a walk-in freezer until they can be cremated – requires far less money and effort than caring for the pets until they are adopted. PETA has a $33 million annual budget. But instead of investing in the lives of the thousands of flesh and blood creatures in its care, the group spends millions on media campaigns telling Americans that eating meat, drinking milk, fishing, hunting, wearing leather shoes, and benefiting from medical research performed on lab rats are all “unethical.” The bottom line: PETA’s leaders care more about cutting into their advertising budget than finding homes for the six pets they kill on average, every single day. The Virginia Beach SPCA, just down the road from PETA’s Norfolk headquarters, manages to adopt out the vast majority of the animals in its care. And it does it on a shoestring budget. Years of public outrage has not been enough to convince PETA to eliminate its pet eradication program. Now the death toll of animals in PETA’s care has reached 23,640, including more than 2,000 pets last year. That’s not an animal charity. It’s a slaughterhouse. Click here to sign our petition to revoke PETA’s tax-exempt status. » read moreCelebrity PETA Supporters Have Blood on Their Hands Today the Center for Consumer Freedom criticized the celebrity supporters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in a full-page advertisement in Variety for endorsing the animal rights group even as it kills thousands of animals in its care. » read more All About the PETA Trial The North Carolina animal-cruelty trial of two PETA employees ended with a surprising result, but the animal rights group admitted under oath that it does, indeed, kill large numbers of animals. Our daily reports from inside the courtroom provide a rare look at one of the radical organization's most secret programs. » read more » Day 1 » Day 2 » Day 3 » Day 4 » Day 5 » Weekend » Day 6 » Day 7 » Day 8 » Day 9 » Day 10 » Summary PETA Spent $9,370 on a walk-in freezer Shocking Crime-Scene Photos » read more PETA's Dirty Secret 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. » read more and see the proof PETA's Lame Response We'll say this much for PETA's leaders: they've got an answer for everything. If you write to PETA and ask about our "PETA Kills Animals" website, the group will send back a form letter including some of these lame excuses. » read PETA's weak response PETA Trial in the News » CCF op-ed in the Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) » The Sunday Standard-Times (New Bedford, MA) » The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) » The Daily Trojan (University of Southern California) » The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) » The Sunday Telegraph (London, UK) » The New York Post » Court TV Press Release: PETA Killed 97 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2009 Spread the word about PETA's dirty secret! Link to us with any of our standard-size banners. » read more |
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