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Report: PETA Kills 95% of its Animals
A new report claims animal rights group PETA killed 95% of the animals which turned up at its Virginia headquarters last year. But in this case, it is important to consider the source of the report.
The Daily Mail reports that according to the Center for Consumer Freedom, PETA received 1,992 cats and dogs in 2011, and 1,911 were put to sleep.
"PETA hasn’t slowed down its slaughterhouse operation," CCF executive director Rick Berman said. "It appears PETA is more concerned with funding its media and advertising antics than finding suitable homes for these dogs and cats."
Now, Berman has long been at war with the animal rights movement. Among his many endeavors includes a website called PETAKillsAnimals.com.
Another Berman target, The Humane Society of the United States, writes of him:
Recently, he has aligned himself with the agribusiness lobby and appealed to factory farming interests for support, telling them that he will try and slow down The HSUS’s advances in improving the treatment of farm animals. By attacking The HSUS, Berman and his organizations have given encouragement to others who profit from the status quo cruelty to animals—whether large-scale puppy mill operators, criminal cockfighters, the seal slaughter industry, horse slaughter profiteers, or others.
PETA has never hidden that fact that it does indeed put animals to sleep.
"We would rather offer these animals a painless death than have them tortured, starved, or sold for research,’ Daphna Nachminovitch told Newsweek last year.
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Comments
Whether the person who came
Whether the person who came out with this claim is bias or not doesn't matter, because it is in fact true... I live in Maryland and have actually visited the shelter they are referencing in this article, my mom adopted a dog just a few days before they were about to put it down. They hardly keep the animals long enough to try and find homes for them, when they first get an animal they have a couple week period for observance, in which the animals are not allowed to be adopted, and then once that is over the animals have two more weeks before they are put down. I understand that some shelters don't have the resources to keep animals that don't get quickly adopted, but two weeks is just ridiculous. At this point, it basically is a slaughter house and nothing else. If they were giving each pet a better chance at being adopted, as in more time, then I could believe that they were actually trying to help. But they aren't even giving them a fair chance, which makes you question the motives behind the organization.
And the funniest part of all
And the funniest part of all of that is that Peta is trying to get all of the animal shelters to be "no-kill" shelters. Now THAT is the ultimate hypocrisy. I guess, like any other evil cult, Peta is "do as I say, not as I do".
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
PETA has also said that it
PETA has also said that it wants to halt the breeding of companion animals and farm animals, letting the current stock live out their lives and die without offspring. It would seem a 99% kill shelter is a little extreme.
The overwhelming majority of people will continue eating animals and owning animals as pets. PETA's mission is doomed before it starts. However, everyone agrees that reducing cruelty is a good thing, and that is the common ground that PETA may find with people who will not swallow their missing statement.