Thread: PETA Killed 95 percent of adoptable pets in its care last year.

Hypocrites much?


http://www.consumerfreedom.com/press...fm/release/258

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 www.PetaKillsAnimals.com.

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.

The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit coalition supported by restaurants, food companies, and consumers, working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices.

Originally Posted by Potemkine

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

Interesting

Originally Posted by CivilWars

How fitting. Summoning sjt.

Gwabs popcorn like a lil kid. Hopes BD shows up so that another classic mom and dad fight ensues.

I got some beer in the fridge. Let me go get. This is going to be interesting.

UNDERAGE DRINKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and if you don't believe the CCF here's newsweek.......

http://www.newsweek.com/id/134549

Nearly a decade later, Daphna Nachminovitch still remembers the rerelease of the Disney classic "101 Dalmatians" and the tragedy that followed. First there was a spike in sales of the famous spotted breed. Then, in the months that followed, shelters took in hundreds of Dalmatians from disillusioned pet owners around the country. "As soon as the puppies outlived their cuteness and the kids didn't want to scoop the poop anymore, the dogs were dumped in shelters," says Nachminovitch, vice president of cruelty investigations for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). "Many of them had to be euthanized, because there was simply no place for them to go."

But what many animal lovers don't realize is that PETA itself may have put down some of those unwanted Dalmatians. The organization has practiced euthanasia for years. Since 1998 PETA has killed more than 17,000 animals, nearly 85 percent of all those it has rescued. Dalmatians may no longer be the breed of the day, but the problem of unwanted and abandoned pets is as urgent as ever. Shelters around the country kill 4 million animals every year; by some estimates, more than 80 percent of them are healthy. In recent years those grim statistics have split the animal rights community. Ironically, PETA has emerged as a strong proponent of euthanasia. (The group is better known for its public condemnations of everyone from fashion designer Donna Karan for her use of fur to the National Cancer Institute for its animal research.) In defense of its policy PETA has insisted that euthanasia is a necessary evil in a world full of unwanted pets. But while the group has some well-known allies, including the Humane Society of the United States, a growing number of animal rights activists claim to have found a better, more humane way.

"Over-population is a myth," says attorney Nathan Winograd, whose recent book "Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America"" chronicles the rise of the no-kill shelter movement. "With better outreach and public relations, we can find homes for virtually all of the healthy animals we are now killing." As proof he points to a string of communities across the country whose shelters have managed to stop euthanizing all but the sickest animals. Bonney Brown, executive director of the Nevada Humane Society, says that in 2007, the first year her group went "no-kill," her shelters managed to save 90 percent of the 8,000 animals they took in. Among other strategies, the organization ramped up its volunteer force, from 30 to 1,700, expanded its hours so that people could come in after work and engaged in extensive media outreach.

"On balance, people love animals," says Brown, pointing out that animal causes are one of the fastest-growing segments of American philanthropy. "The biggest challenge has been convincing them to trust their local shelters. And with a little initiative we are finally starting to do that."

Shelters in Virginia, New York and San Francisco report successes similar to Nevada's, and communities in more than a dozen states have announced no-kill goals and added legislative mandates to their agenda. King County, Wash., passed a law requiring area shelters to achieve an 85 percent save rate by 2009. San Antonio, Texas, is aiming for zero kills by 2012. And Ivan City, Utah, saved 97 percent of its shelter animals beginning in 2006 when the animal control ordinances were rewritten to prohibit the euthanasia of healthy animals.

Those successes have not persuaded PETA or its allies. The group argues that in order to maintain their no-kill status these facilities simply turn away animals that are unlikely to be adopted, often leaving them to fates worse than death. "No one hates it more than we do," says Nachminovitch. "But we would rather offer these animals a painless death than have them tortured, starved or sold for research." PETA isn't the only group to take that stance. "No-kill is a noble goal," says Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States. "But the sheer number of animals make it almost unachievable."

How about the raw numbers for 2004 and 2005?

http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi...=157&year=2004

http://www.virginia.gov/vdacs_ar/cgi...=157&year=2005

Again Cop I am going to call you out on your statistics.

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/down...llsAnimals.pdf

Go look, they didn't kill 95% of animals that they took in. They euthanized (about) 95% of the animals that were not reclaimed by their owners, were not adopted or transferred to other facilities, or were already to injured to survive.

For example, in 2004 they had 10298 animals cross the threshold. 7643 were returned to their owners. 361 were adopted and 2278 were put down.

2278/10298 is not 95% it is actually 22%

I'm not saying that this isn't horrible. But lets face it, the ASPCA, the Humane Society, and every other animal shelter does pretty much the same thing (yes yes, there are no-kill shelters, but they are few and far between [not to mention almost prohibitively expensive to run]). Animals that aren't adopted, reclaimed by their owners or have uncorrectable behavior issues do end up being put down.

Originally Posted by Arreo

Again Cop I am going to call you out on your statistics.

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/down...llsAnimals.pdf

Go look, they didn't kill 95% of animals that they took in. They euthanized (about) 95% of the animals that were not reclaimed by their owners, were not adopted or transferred to other facilities, or were already to injured to survive.

For example, in 2004 they had 10298 animals cross the threshold. 7643 were returned to their owners. 361 were adopted and 2278 were put down.

2278/10298 is not 95% it is actually 22%

I'm not saying that this isn't horrible. But lets face it, the ASPCA, the Humane Society, and every other animal shelter does pretty much the same thing (yes yes, there are no-kill shelters, but they are few and far between [not to mention almost prohibitively expensive to run]). Animals that aren't adopted, reclaimed by their owners or have uncorrectable behavior issues do end up being put down.

Of those 7643, 7479 were only in their care for "Sterilization" so then the numbers become much more significant.

So really the number is 81%.......