Hypocritical Animal Rights Groups 2008 Disclosures Bring Pet Death Toll To 21,339
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.
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.
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 Virginias State Veterinarian to reclassify PETA as a slaughterhouse.
CCF Research Director David Martosko said: PETA hasnt 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 PETAs headquarters building?
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?
CCF obtained PETAs 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.
In addition to exposing PETAs hypocritical record of killing defenseless animals, the Center for Consumer Freedom has publicized the animal rights groups ties to violent activists, and shed light on its aggressive message-marketing to children. 
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