by Jack Lee
PETA is a non-profit organziation and the funds it uses are from donations, however a number of recent news stories indicated the donations may not be going to where they were intended. Like most of you, I thought PETA was mostly about lobbying and protesting for animal rights. I was surprised to know they run animal shelters that they claim are for finding dogs and cats good homes. I was even more suprised to find out that 95% of pets in their care…were killed. So where are all those many millions in donations going, executive salaries? One thing is for sure, the money is not going to find good homes for the animals in their care!
According to a recent news story, “an official report filed by PETA itself shows that the animal rights group put to death nearly every dog, cat, and other pet it took in for adoption in 2006. During that year, the well-known animal rights group managed to find adoptive homes for just 12 animals. The organization killed 2,981 of the 3,061 “companion animals” it took in.
According to David Martosko, Research Director for CCF… “It is absurd to classify PETA as a ‘humane society’ when its employees are slaughtering nearly every companion animal they bring in. PETA has killed over 17,000 pets since 1998. Given the group’s astonishing habit of killing adoptable dogs and cats with such ruthless efficiency, it’s only fair that the state of Virginia refer to PETA as a slaughterhouse.”
This story, which tracks similarly to the previous story, came out yesterday, March 29th, 2009 – by Melissa Clouthier “In Virginia, PETA takes the notion of killing with kindness literally: only seven animals found a home out of the 2,216 it cared for in 2008. Seven animals managed a reprieve; the rest were loved to death.
PETAs 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? PETAs continued silence on the matter makes it hard to say for sure. But from a cost-saving standpoint, PETAs hypocrisy isnt 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: PETAs leaders care more about cutting into their advertising budget than finding homes for the nearly six pets they kill on average, every single day.