PETA Euthanised More Than 90% of its Adopted Animals Last Year
Posted By Freelance Writers Date: 8/05 Posted Under: Animal Charities, Animal WelfareAn official report filed by People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) with the Virginia government shows that the organisation put to death more than 90 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets it took in for adoption during 2007. During that year, the well-known animal rights group managed to find adoptive homes for just 17 animals.
A non profit group, the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), has called on PETA to stop its routine condemnation of Americans who believe it’s perfectly ethical to use animals for food, clothing, and medical research.
This comes on the heels of last week’s Newsweek report, which revealed that since 1998 PETA had killed, “more than 17,000 animals, nearly 85 percent of all those it has rescued.”
Not counting animals PETA held only temporarily in its spay-neuter program, the organization took in 1,997 “companion animals” during 2007, of which it killed 1,815. According to Virginia’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), the average euthanasia rate for humane societies in the state was just 36.2 percent in 2007. PETA killed 90.9 percent of the animals it took in.
“Pet lovers should be outraged,” said CCF Director of Research David Martosko. “There are thousands of worthwhile animal-welfare organizations that deserve the support of compassionate Americans. PETA is not one of them. This is the kind of cold, heartless behavior that would draw a naked PETA protest if anyone else were doing it.”
In January, CCF petitioned VDACS to consider officially reclassifying PETA as a “slaughterhouse” instead of a “humane society” and an animal “releasing agency.” VDACS Commissioner Todd Haymore responded in a January 25, 2008 letter that while PETA’s rate of killing animals is “extremely high,” the state’s laws “do not provide the authority for [VDACS] to ’strip’ PETA of its designation as a ‘humane society’ or ‘releasing agency.’”
“It’s horribly ironic that PETA kills so many animals” Martosko added. “PETA raised over $30 million last year, 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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Bunnyhuggers out of control, are they, for or against animals?
What is the point of this organisation, they raise buckets of money, then use it to rescue animals that they subsequently kill, why are they doing this?
I know from some of the campaigns they have ran around the world that when you see their adverts, they are so slick that it gives out the wrong type of credibility because the style of the advert and graphics is so ‘professional’ looking.
Although the posters etc were truly amazing, some of the messages were a bit scary….as in ‘Axe Murderer Alert’ scary!
Sadly it seems that they are truly a bunch of misguided people possibly hell bent on stopping people in the USA from owning pets or other animals, what right do they have to do that?
Dangerous goings on in the land of the free (unless your an animal that falls into the domain of PETA)
Are there not a number of ‘celebs’ that are associatied with PETA?
Yet another year of hypocrisy from this sick organisation.
I just don’t understand how these ‘Celebrities’ and the general public can fall for their spin year after year.