Report Claims Animal Welfare Group Killed 97% of Animals it Took in
The Center for Consumer Freedom is reporting that controversial animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), destroyed a staggering 97% of the dogs and cats it took in for adoption in the year 2006.
According to the CFCF, a long time opponent to PETA, 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 end what it refers to as a “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.”
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It’s important for people to know what the Center for Consumer Freedom is. It’s a deceptively named group that was founded with money from the tobacco industry. (For more information, visit SourceWatch or ConsumerDeception.org.) The CCF’s goal was to put a positive spin on smoking. When that failed, they moved to other industries and are now funded by the restaurant, alcohol, meat and dairy industries.
The CCF opposes Mothers Against Drunk Driving. And their MO is to try to discredit those groups that oppose the CCF. Peta is one of those groups because it cares about animals and doesn’t want people to eat them.
Even if you disagree with Peta — and I know a lot of people do — please realize that even some animal-rights groups do not agree with everything Peta does. So if you hate Peta, look into supporting less-extreme animal-rights groups like Vegan Outreach or Farm Sanctuary.
The bottom line is that we all care about animals and don’t want to see them suffer.
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Yeah…and I’d think any responsible journalist would have looked into their shady “source” and the motives therein ahead of time.
“No-kill” (aka turnaway shelters) advocates are sadly delusional and usually end up warehousing a ton of animals like the humane society in my home town and their “farm” filled with kennels full of inbred, heartworm positive dogs that never get any exercise and live for years going crazy in a cramped little cage. People want to pretend like just keeping them alive is better than a humane death, but there are things far worse than peacefully going to sleep.
PETA largely takes in animals whose owners bring them in to be euthanized and/or who are not adoptable for various reasons, they’re not there to find your spoiled grandchild a purebred poodle. This makes total sense to me and attempting to sensationalize just tells me the author/publication has an axe to grind or it was a super slow news day.
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Well-said Tracy and Hales!
This isn’t even a story – it’s a rehash of spin from front-groups that oppose animal rights and know that PETA is the most successful animal rights organization out there.
PETA took dogs who were going to be painfully gassed (which would have caused them to suffocate for up to 20 minutes), and offered to have them painlessly euthanized instead. PETA was standing up or animals when no one else will.
And PETA has been extremely successful in pressuring the largest companies, from McDonald’s to Ralph Lauren, to drastically change the treatment of animals used by their suppliers, or to stop using animals in ways that cause suffering.
Every year, for example, 250 million fully-sentient egg-laying hens spend their lives in cages so small that their beaks must be sliced off to prevent them from pecking each other to death under the stress. Investigations find them with broken wings permanently tangled in cage wires, and rotting corpses in cages with live birds.
PETA has forced these companies to make the cages big enough for the animals to move around – the first time in American history. They’ve pressured many major companies to stop selling fur – for which foxes, who are as intelligent as dogs, are kept in tiny cages and anally electrocuted.
If there is one animal organization that we should all support, it is PETA, and now ESPECIALLY because of these front groups going after them for their success!
Please find out more, including how you can join PETA or help in other ways – visit PETA.org
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Simply put, the Center For Consumer Freedom is a front group for the restaurant, junk-food, alcohol and tobacco industries, and they regularly run elaborate media campaigns opposing the efforts of scientists, doctors, health advocates, animal rights and environmental groups.
Founded in 1995 as the Guest Choice Network with a grant from the tobacco company, Philip Morris, the misnamed Center for Consumer Freedom has never strayed far from its roots. Consumer freedom — or consumer health — is not nearly so important to them as corporate bottom-lines.
A quick tour of the CCF website reveals article after article dismissing reputable scientific studies that demonstrate the dangers of high fat, trans fats, high sugar, processed food, meat-consumption diets, the dangers of high mercury levels in fish, etc., and attacking advocates of healthy lifestyles.
Public health, environmental, animal advocacy groups have always been targets for the CCF, because they all threaten the bottom lines of the CCF’s corporate meat, dairy, restaurant and beverage-industry sponsors.
Reporters who cite the CCF favorably or as a reputable source for this kind of information haven’t done their homework.
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The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) tries to enhance its own image by circulating misleading and downright false ads and media releases about PETA. There is probably no greater compliment or validation of PETA’s work than that this greedy industry front group—opposed as they are to even modest reforms in our society and funded by such businesses as Outback Steakhouse, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and Philip Morris, as well as ranching and logging interests—feel compelled to spotlight (even if only to criticize) PETA’s vital efforts in behalf of animals. To learn more about CCF, visit http://www.ConsumerDeception.com. You may also be interested in this article: http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8984.
CCF feels threatened when PETA reveals documentation proving that bulls are castrated without anesthetics and dismembered at slaughterhouses while still conscious, when PETA brings to public attention yet another scientific study linking animal fat to cancer and heart disease, and when PETA attacks decades-long smoking experiments on animals. In addition to animal protectionists, targets of this reactionary group includes National Public Radio, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and anyone who draws attention to the health risks of smoking and drinking.
CCF and similar groups have been desperately trying to overcome their failures in the wake of PETA’s hard-hitting campaigns—actions that have persuaded McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s to make unannounced visits to their slaughterhouses to ensure that humane killing and other improvements in animal treatment have been implemented. PETA’s campaigns have caused a ripple effect throughout the factory-farming industry and have brought some relief for millions upon millions of animals. Corporations know that they’re going to have to change the way they do business in order to adhere to fast-food companies’ new rules.
Coming to the Euthanasia; CCF have made misleading claims about PETA’s euthanasia rate compared to the rates of various animal shelters. Although PETA does not run an adoption facility (PETA refers most adoptable animals to well-known shelters with a high rate of public traffic), PETA have managed to place hundreds of animals in excellent lifelong homes. For many of the animals PETA accepts—such as those who are severely injured, aggressive, or otherwise unadoptable — PETA is often a “shelter of last resort,” offering a ‘humane death’ to animals who would otherwise suffer a slow and painful end.
While some of the animals PETA takes in are lost companion animals or adoptable strays, many of the animals we receive are broken beings for whom euthanasia is, without a doubt, the most humane option. To cite a local instance, PETA’s caseworkers were able to gain custody of a dog who was tied to a 15-pound chain and who was starved until she was severely emaciated. PETA had to carry her into the emergency clinic because she could barely walk. A vet recommended that the most humane option for her was a peaceful and dignified release from her suffering. PETA pursued criminal charges against those responsible for her condition, leading to their convictions for cruelty to animals. To learn more about PETA’s work for animals, visit http://www.HelpingAnimals.com On another occasion, when a power-line transformer explosion burned a flock of starlings, PETA was the only agency to come to the birds’ aid, offering the animals a painless escape from their suffering.
PETA receives calls every week from people who do not have the inclination or money to provide veterinary care. Many of these people request that PETA euthanize their animals because they cannot afford to have them euthanized by a vet or because the animals would suffer excessive stress and pain if they were transported. PETA will not turn its back on these animals simply because they might make PETA “numbers” look bad.
Unlike “no-kill” shelters, PETA does not refuse animals simply because euthanasia is the only humane option for them. Many of the animals PETA took in are given to them because they have been rejected by other facilities.
Animal abusers are terrified of the strides that PETA is making. It is a measure of PETA’s effectiveness that they are feeling so threatened by PETA’s achievements, and it only inspires PETA to work even harder for animals.
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PETA is an animal RIGHTS group, not an animal welfare group, that means they WANT to stop all uses of animals (even guide dogs), in fact here are some quotes from it’s top members, about its policy
“I openly hope that it [hoof-and-mouth disease] comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment.”
“Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use … It’s time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.”
“Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.”
“There is no hidden agenda. If anybody wonders about — what’s this with all these reforms — you can hear us clearly. Our goal is total animal liberation. ”
“the cat, like the dog, must disapear”
“To those people who say, `My father is alive because of animal experimentation,’ I say `Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.’ Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade off” PETAs vice-presidant sufers from insulin, youd think belonging to an organisation which says people should die, if the need treetmennts tested on animals, she would not take insulin, and let the diabetties kill her, but no she takes it reguly
Euthanising an animal becuase its in pain, can’t be rehomed, etc, is one thing. taking an animal in from a person,and promising to them that youl find it a good home, then killing it as soon as you get behind closed doors, without even checking if its adoptable or not, is another.
and they even campaign FOR BSL.
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