PETA KILLED 2000 SHELTER ANIMALS IN 2013 - AND 31,000 SINCE 1998

Animal rights group says its doing what's best for the animals in its Virginia shelter but critics point to unseemly 82 percent kill rate

According to the Center for Consumer Freedom, PETA has killed over 31,000 animals since 1998

These numbers come from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), which requires such annual disclosures.  In 2013, PETA killed 1,792 cats and dogs, an average of 5 per day. The 1,792 figure represents 82 percent of all animals PETA took into its shelter throughout the year.   

 

'This delusional animal rights group is talking out of both sides of its mouth – on one side preaching animal rights, while on the other signing the death warrant of 82 percent of cats and dogs in its care.   Labeling PETA as hypocritical would be the understatement of the year,' said Will Coggin from the Center for Consumer Freedom. 

 

In 2005, two PETA employees were arrested in North Carolina after allegedly killing adoptable pets and tossing the bodies into a supermarket trash dumpster.  Trial evidence showed they killed animals they described as 'perfect' and 'adorable.'

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk previously indicated to The Virginian-Pilot that the animal rights group could stop killing pets any time they want.  'We could become a no-kill shelter immediately. It means we wouldn't do as much work,' she said.

 

According to VDAS, in 2010 discovered that 84 percent of the animals PETA took in were killed within 24 hours. 

 

'PETA’s so-called ‘shelter’ might as well be called a slaughterhouse,' said CCF. 'For an organization that once disgustingly compared the treatment of farm animals to the Holocaust, you’d think PETA would avoid the appearance of systematic killing.'  Meanwhile, PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch emphasized the pets that could be saved.  'The nearly 400 adoptable animals PETA received were placed in carefully screened, permanent homes or transferred to the Virginia Beach SPCA and other high-traffic open-admission shelters for a chance to be adopted,' she said.

 
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