Ravenwood - 06/20/05 08:00 AM
PETA's dirty little secret just went mainstream. A month ago, the Center for Consumer Freedom purchased a billboard in an attempt to let people know that PETA kills thousands of animals a year, and has a much worse record for adoption than the local SPCA. Nobody was listening then, but now PETA employees have been charged with felony counts of animal cruelty.
On Thursday, two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) were arrested on 31 felony animal-cruelty charges for killing and disposing of dogs and puppies in a dumpster. The Center for Consumer Freedom is calling on Americans to stop making donations to support PETA.If this had been your or me, PETA would be having a press conference and fund raising campaign.When Ahoskie police arrested PETA employees Andrew Cook and Adria Hinkle late Thursday, they found 18 dead dogs in a nearby shopping-center dumpster (including a bag containing seven dead puppies), and 13 more dead dogs in the PETA-owned van the two were driving. Police observed them throwing several dark-colored bags into the dumpster before the arrests were made.
This is not the first public mention of PETA's large-scale euthanasia program. In May 2005 the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) unveiled a giant Times Square billboard and a new website (http://www.PetaKillsAnimals.com). CCF had obtained official records from the state of Virginia showing the militant animal-rights group had put over 10,000 dogs and cats to death since 1998.
In 2003 PETA euthanized over 85 percent of the animals it took in, finding adoptive homes for just 14 percent. By comparison, the Norfolk SPCA found adoptive homes for 73 percent of its animals and the Virginia Beach SPCA adopted out 66 percent. PETA's required report documenting its 2004 record is currently over 4 weeks late according to CCF.
Category: Schadenfreude
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Once upon a time, long ago, dog catchers were for problem dogs, which meant not a loose dog, but a loose dog that was a problem. Most dogs were loose dogs, and they socialized and played with the kids and guarded the neighborhood. They knew who belonged and who didn't, in short, as in Plato's Republic, where the duty of guarding the just city was reserved for dogs.
At some point, rounding up all loose dogs became the mandate, and this led to an overpopulation problem. The overpopulation problem comes from putting all the animals in one place, not from the number of animals. If you rounded up chipmunks, there would be a chipmunk population crisis. They don't, so there isn't.
So neither the SPCA nor HSUS nor PETA is on the right side of this one.
Vicki Hearne http://home.att.net/~rhhardin2/vickihearne.roundup.txt
I don't know what everyone is so worked up about. The animals didn't suffer and they are better off dead than in a life of slavery.
Pet ownership is slavery!!!
Posted by: Theresa at June 20, 2005 7:33 PMTheresa,
There is no moral equivalent between slavery and pet ownership. That you would even try to make that claim is insulting.
Posted by: Ravenwood at June 20, 2005 7:53 PMAhem!
Slave n.
1 A person who is owned or completely subject to another.
2 A person who is totally subject to some habit.
3 One who labors like a slave; drudge.
4 A machine or device that is controlled by another machine or device.
My dog is pretty much non-subjectia. She sits outside on the porch, has 30 acreas of land to run, no fence to keep her going even farther if she wished, and plenty of free food, if she wanted to leave she would but she doesn't. City animals are different in the fact that if they do go out they'll travel around a bit but will always come home in the end. So in today's society a dog doesn't have to hunt for its food or worry about the next level of the food chain. For you to misuse the word slavery is an insult to all those who were slaves.
Go back to school and quit miss-using the English language and emotion words.
Posted by: Rhett at June 22, 2005 3:11 PMKeeping animals alive long enough for adoption would cost money... money they would rather spend on anti-meat billboards, and stupid publicity stunts focused on brainwashing the population, (especially children like Theresa).
Excuse me, I must start preparing for bambi season.
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