- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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?"
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- 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?"
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- 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 PetaKillsAnimals.com.
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- (http://www.petakillsanimals.com/downloads/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf
- Skeptical? Click here to see the documents.)
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- 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.
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- 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.
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ext. 115
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- http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/258
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