PETA broke their own animal killing record in '08

[PythonWallace]

PETA kills more than 90% of the animals they "rescue", while a no-budget, practically unfunded shelter down the street from the PETA headquarters adopts out more than 60% of the animals they rescue. Where is the donation money PETA receives from animal lovers going?

Exclusive: PETA’s Pet Killing Program Set a New Record in 2008
Public Records: PETA Found Adoptive Homes for Less than 1 out of 300 Animals

Animal lovers worldwide now have access to more than a decade’s worth of proof that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) kills thousands of defenseless pets at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. Since 1998, PETA has opted to “put down” 21,339 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens instead of finding homes for them.

PETA’s “Animal Record” report for 2008, filed with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, shows that the animal rights group killed 95 percent of the dogs and cats in its care last year. During all of 2008, PETA found adoptive homes for just seven pets.

Just seven animals -- out of the 2,216 it took in. PETA just broke its own record.

Why would an animal rights group secretly kill animals at its headquarters? PETA’s continued silence on the matter makes it hard to say for sure. But from a cost-saving standpoint, PETA’s hypocrisy isn’t difficult to understand: Killing adoptable cats and dogs – and storing the bodies in a walk-in freezer until they can be cremated – requires far less money and effort than caring for the pets until they are adopted.

PETA has a $32 million annual budget. But instead of investing in the lives of the thousands of flesh and blood creatures in its care, the group spends millions on media campaigns telling Americans that eating meat, drinking milk, fishing, hunting, wearing leather shoes, and benefiting from medical research performed on lab rats are all “unethical.”

The bottom line: PETA’s leaders care more about cutting into their advertising budget than finding homes for the nearly six pets they kill on average, every single day.

The Virginia Beach SPCA, just down the road from PETA’s Norfolk headquarters, manages to adopt out the vast majority of the animals in its care. And it does it on a shoestring budget.

Years of public outrage has not been enough to convince PETA to eliminate its pet eradication program.

Now the death toll of animals in PETA’s care has reached 21,339, including more than 2,000 pets last year. That’s not an animal charity. It’s a slaughterhouse.

www.petakillsanimals.com

[filly77]

wow.. all i can say is this is disgusting, disturbing and sickening!!! Peta freaks have problems, this accult needs to be stopped... problem is most of the members aren't all there in the head.us they'd just start bombing places (or something??)

[mainbutter]

People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.

[dc4teg]

all the money goes into mahogany caskets for each animal.... no they spend in on big freezers to put the animals inside of!

[Melicious]

Doesn't surprise me. -Shrugs.-

[Bruce Whitehead]

Wish I had a link to the info, but Pammie Anderson donated her leather seated car to an auction that PETA had, and they had no problems collecting the money for it.

Hyppocrisy to the extreme.

Or the head of PETA's insulin shots that she takes daily (developed VIA animal research)...

UGH, I will not start. Today has been the first calm day in a while.

[PythonWallace]

Wish I had a link to the info, but Pammie Anderson donated her leather seated car to an auction that PETA had, and they had no problems collecting the money for it.

Hyppocrisy to the extreme.

Or the head of PETA's insulin shots that she takes daily (developed VIA animal research)...

UGH, I will not start. Today has been the first calm day in a while.

7) PETA frequently looks the other way when its celebrity spokespersons don’t practice what it preaches. As gossip bloggers and Hollywood journalists have noted, Pamela Anderson’s Dodge Viper (auctioned to benefit PETA) had a “luxurious leather interior”; Jenna Jameson was photographed fishing, slurping oysters, and wearing a leather jacket just weeks after launching an anti-leather campaign for PETA; Morrissey got an official “okay” from PETA after eating at a steakhouse; Dita von Teese has written about her love of furs and foie gras; Steve-O built a career out of abusing small animals on film; the officially “anti-fur” Eva Mendes often wears fur anyway; and Charlize Theron’s celebrated October 2007 Vogue cover shoot featured several suede garments. In 2008, “Baby Phat” designer Kimora Lee Simmons became a PETA spokesmodel despite working with fur and leather, after making a $20,000 donation to the animal rights group.

[DavidG]

Pretty disturbing post. Very good info though.

[mainbutter]

My favorite episode of Penn and Teller's BULL$H!#! is the PETA episode.

[blackcrystal22]

I've known about this for a long time. This isn't really a new story.. same thing was posted in '08 about '07. People are always so shocked to hear that I'm a vegetarian that hates PETA.

PETA's goal is to rid all animals that have been tainted by 'humans'. By means of euthanasia.

There was also a bill that I read over that explained the main shelters income and expenses. Majority of their budget ran over to 'extra-large freezers'.
Hm, wonder what those were for..