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TELL PETA Let Ingrid and other PETA employees know just how much you enjoy your pit bull life-companions. She can be reached at: PETA 501 Front St., Norfolk, Va. 23501 Or email them at: |
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A man in a hazemat suit removes the body of a puppy killed by PETA and covertly thrown in a dumpster belonging to another company. They want to get rid of pets - one way or the other. |
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THE TRUTH ABOUT PETA |
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Do you know the truth? I was once a proud PETA supporter. I now know them to be a well financed threat to the ownership of all dogs. All because of one woman's fear of pit bulls, her twisted view of Nature and her inability to understand animals. |
Consumer Group Asks Virginia Government to Reclassify PETA as a Slaughterhouse 01/16/08 WASHINGTON, DC- Yesterday the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom formally petitioned Virginia's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), requesting that the government agency officially reclassify People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) as a slaughterhouse. An official report filed by PETA itself shows that the animal rights group put to death nearly every dog, cat, and other pet it took in for adoption in 2006. During that year, the well-known animal rights group managed to find adoptive homes for just 12 animals. Not counting pets brought to PETA for spaying or neutering, the organization killed 2,981 of the 3,061 “companion animals” it took in. According to VDACS, the average euthanasia rate for humane societies in Virginia was 34.7 percent in 2006. PETA's "kill rate" was 97.4 percent.
“It is absurd to classify PETA as a ‘humane society’ when its employees are slaughtering nearly every companion animal they bring in,” said CCF Director of Research David Martosko. “PETA has killed over 17,000 pets since 1998. Given the group's astonishing habit of killing adoptable dogs and cats with such ruthless efficiency, it's only fair that the state of Virginia refer to PETA as a slaughterhouse.” CCF’s letter to VDACS Commissioner Todd Haymore reads as follows: Dear Commissioner Haymore, The Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) enjoys nonprofit status as a “humane society” and “releasing agency” as defined in Virginia Code § 3.1-796.66. But when PETA filed its required online “Animal Record” report for the year 2006, it reported something startling. Setting aside the dogs and cats the group sterilized that year, PETA euthanized (killed) 97.4 percent of all the domestic animals it took in.[1] This percentage has been steadily increasing each year since 2001, when PETA’s “kill rate” was 72.4 percent. In 2006, the state average for “humane societies” was less than 35 percent. In 2006, PETA employees killed 2,980 dogs, cats, and other pets; they transferred 46 to other Virginia releasing agencies; they adopted out only 12. During a 2007 criminal trial in North Carolina, a PETA manager testified that her organization maintains a large walk-in freezer for the storage of animal carcasses. She testified that PETA employs a crematory service to periodically dispose of the bodies. And she also affirmed that (despite its $32 million budget), PETA does not operate a public “shelter” where members of the public may select dogs or cats and adopt them into their homes. Given PETA’s apparent practice of killing animals shortly after they come in the door (or, in the North Carolina case, inside a cargo van), without making a good-faith effort to find them adoptive homes or provide necessary long-term veterinary care, its classification as a “humane society” and “releasing agency” seems inappropriate. Accordingly, I am requesting as a resident of Virginia that your office strip PETA of these designations, and regulate it instead in the future as a “slaughterhouse.” I recognize that Virginia law presently provides only for the regulation of slaughterhouses, packing facilities, and stockyards which handle animals defined as “livestock.” I respectfully suggest that you should also amend your regulations to account for the fact that at least one Virginia institution (PETA) already operates a slaughterhouse for dogs and cats. Sincerely, David Martosko |
PETA's New World Order |
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You could call me "pro-animal". I strongly oppose the use of companion animals in medical or psychological research. I believe strongly in improvement of farm animal management. I raise my own eggs from happy hens. I'm not a vegetarian, but won't eat veal. I don't hunt, but I don't believe in outlawing everything I don't enjoy myself. Killing animals is not my idea of fun, but obviously it is for some folks. I understand prey drive in dog or man. PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has turned her fear and dislike
for bulldogs into an active campaign to see these dogs discriminated
against, banned, and even killed for no reason other than being
a bulldog. But it isn't just her dislike of pit bulls. It's much, much more.
PETA lawyers show up at court cases involving pit bulls to make sure the innocent victims are killed. Adults, brood bitches, puppies - all killed in the name of "love". I find it difficult to reconcile this wholesale exclusion of animals from compassion, with being "ethical". Pit bulls are going through a tough time right now as they take their turn as a "fad breed". They are in need of compassion during this time. PETA, in their quest for media attention - and following Ingrid Newkirk's twisted vision of Nature - is taking the low road where our bulldogs are concerned. And because of it, innocent, friendly dogs are dying. |
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals can easily be defined as radical. Instead of working to educate people to their ideas, they try in various ways to force their personal opinions upon the public. They do this through shock tactics such as assaulting people or businesses which have different ideas or practices from their own extreme beliefs. While their actions may bring attention to their ideas, they create a hostile attitude toward legitimate animal welfare work. |
A much loved "pet". PETA sees this happy,
vintage, summer scene as "cruel".
PETA wants all pets gone; out of the picture. It takes an empty heart to wish that. |
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PETA is popular with high profile people such as movie stars, as a way to be "for animals" without having to actually get their hands dirty doing direct animal care. PETA offers an easy, mindless way to create an appearance of being "hip" about animal welfare. PETA offers a place to throw money. PETA makes great use of any affiliation with "stars". These same folks don't bother to research what they are supporting. Actress Linda Blair (former PETA spokesperson) had no idea PETA was aggressively and actively working to the detriment of her dogs. |
This child is 100 times more likely to be killed by its own mother
than a dog.
Perhaps PETA will want to ban mothers next? |
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PETA is pouring large amounts of money and energy into stopping the ownership of all pet animals. The idea of the thousands year old relationship between animal and man is repugnant to these folks. I suspect no PETA employee has ever shared a meaningful working relationship with an animal, and therefore have no idea how mutually enjoyable it can be for both parties. The soul of a working dog is unknowable to them. One PETA employee I spoke with kept three large dogs in an apartment in the city. No wonder they think owning pets is cruel! This ignorance of the symbiotic relationship between domestic animal and man is evident in PETA statements: "it is important to stop manufacturing pets, thereby perpetuating a class of animals forced to rely on humans to survive." In fact, humans and animals have both relied on each other to survive further back then we can see into history. |
The pit bull has been a cherished family pet for hundreds of years. This classic looking pit bull pup sports cropped ears and check out that snappy car in the background |
PETA sees breed bans as a first step to the banning of the ownership of all dogs. Here are their own words directed against a breed they feel they can attack at will...
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PETA's Attack on Pit Bulls The following is a statement from "BREED
SPECIFIC LEGISLATION (WITH A GRANDFATHER CLAUSE FOR THOSE
Links for information about PETA's actions Petition to remove PETA's tax exempt status
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