People for the Ethical Slaughterhouse

[UPSNewbie]

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

Exclusive: PETA’s Pet Killing Program Set a New Record in 2008

Public Records: PETA Found Adoptive Homes for Less than 1 out of 300 Animals

Animal lovers worldwide now have access to more than a decade’s worth of proof that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) kills thousands of defenseless pets at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. Since 1998, PETA has opted to “put down” 21,339 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens instead of finding homes for them.

PETA’s “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? PETA’s continued silence on the matter makes it hard to say for sure. But from a cost-saving standpoint, PETA’s hypocrisy isn’t 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: PETA’s leaders care more about cutting into their advertising budget than finding homes for the nearly six pets they kill on average, every single day.

The Virginia Beach SPCA, just down the road from PETA’s Norfolk headquarters, manages to adopt out the vast majority of the animals in its care. And it does it on a shoestring budget.
Years of public outrage has not been enough to convince PETA to eliminate its pet eradication program.

Now the death toll of animals in PETA’s care has reached 21,339, including more than 2,000 pets last year. That’s not an animal charity. It’s a slaughterhouse.

 

[soberups]

The problem here is one of balance.

I do agree with PETA on some issues, mainly involving factory farming and the use of leg hold traps for fur. I am also opposed to the use of animals for testing cosmetics.

On the other hand, I also hunt, fish and eat meat. That is part of the cycle of nature, and always has been. PETA's problem is that it was founded by people who grew up watching Bambi on TV and have no concept of the realities of the natural world.

 

[Babagounj]

How true.
When most of the people grew up on farms, we did not have these
problems. One had to plant & grow their own food. Animals were just that, another food source.
Our urban society life has removed many from that rural lifestyle.
Resulting in some very twisted ideals.

 

[soberups]

The majority of the meat my family eats is either wild game that was killed by me personally, or beef purchased from a small local farmer that raises a few head of cattle at a time. These cattle live a serene life out on an open pasture and are not given hormones. They are never herded onto a truck and into a slaughterhouse either....instead, a mobile butcher goes out to the farm and shoots the cow in the head with a high-powered rifle. Quick, clean and humane. It is possible to eat meat in an ethical and sustainable manner. Same goes for eggs, we buy locally grown "free range" eggs instead of the factory farm eggs at the grocery store.

 

[UPSNewbie]

There is nothing better than fresh beef. I use to be a big hunter, but the land that we hunted on, the owner lost it in a court battle with his ex. Haven't been deer/rabbit/turkey hunting in about four years.

I live in the city, so there aren't too many sources of fresh, humanely killed meat.

Just don't know the right people, I guess.