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PETA
KILLS 97% OF ANIMALS IN ITS SHELTERS IN 2006
State
Average is under 35%
WASHINGTON,
Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An official report from People
for The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), submitted nine months
after a Virginia government agency's deadline, shows that the
animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the
dogs, cats, and other pets it took in for adoption in 2006. During
that year, the well-known animal rights group managed to find
adoptive homes for just 12 pets. The nonprofit Center for Consumer
Freedom (CCF) is calling on PETA to either end its hypocritical
angel-of-death program, or stop its senseless condemnation of
Americans who believe it's perfectly ethical to use animals for
food, clothing, and critical medical research.
Not counting animals PETA held only temporarily in its spay-neuter
program, the organization took in 3,061 "companion animals"
in 2006, of which it killed 2,981. According to Virginia's Department
of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), the average euthanasia
rate for humane societies in the state was just 34.7 percent
in 2006. PETA killed 97.4 percent of the animals it took in.
The organization filed its 2006 report this month, nine months
after the VDACS deadline of March 31, 2007."Pet lovers should
be outraged," said CCF Director of Research David Martosko.
"There are thousands of worthwhile animal shelters that
deserve Americans' support. PETA is not one of them."In
courtroom testimony last year, a PETA manager acknowledged that
her organization maintains a large walk-in freezer for storing
dead animals, and that PETA contracts with a Virginia cremation
service to dispose of the bodies. In that trial, two PETA employees
were convicted of dumping dead animals in a rural North Carolina
trash dumpster.Today in Southampton County, Virginia, another
PETA employee will face felony charges in a dog-napping case.
Andrea Florence Benoit Harris was arrested in late 2006 for allegedly
abducting a hunting dog and attempting to transport it to PETA's
Norfolk headquarters."PETA raised over $30 million last
year," Martosko added, "and it's using that money to
kill the only flesh-and-blood animals its employees actually
see. The scale of PETA's hypocrisy is simply staggering."To
speak with a spokesman contact Tim Miller at 202-463-7112.
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