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 animal rights group managed to find homes for just 12 pets. The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is calling PETA hypocritical and to end its angel-of-death program.
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.
During that year, the animal rights group managed to find homes for just 12 pets. The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is calling PETA hypocritical and to end its angel-of-death program.
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.
"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."
PETA maintains a large walk-in freezer for storing dead animals, contracts with a Virginia cremation service to dispose of the bodies. Two PETA employees were convicted of dumping dead animals in a rural North Carolina trash dumpster.
In Virginia, another PETA employee will face felony charges in a dog-napping case. Andrea Florence Benoit Harris was arrested in 2006 for 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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