PETA: Not Just For Animal Lovers Anymore

Recently I came across a website called PetaKillsAnimals.com which is apparently dedicated to the outing of PETA's hypocrisy. I've never been a sympathizer for PETA being that I thoroughly enjoy eating meat, hunting, and fishing, but this website is much more than just a bunch of people who like to eat meat getting together to think of funny alternatives to the PETA acronym.

The very first article I saw was one of the most shocking things I've read in a while. PETA has their own adoption program apparently, where just like any other agency they take in the animals, shelter them, and work to find them homes. The only problem is the multi-million dollar animal activist mustn't put as much effort (read money) into advertising their animals for adoption as they are at advertising their group.

Exhibit A


That was the ad PETA paid for to run during the Super Bowl, but was banned by NBC for being too racy (ie they thought people would start fucking pumpkins and ruin Halloween for everyone). While the ad in itself must have been relatively expensive to film and edit, to actually have it run in a large enough block during the Super Bowl would have cost them even more (assuming the models were paid in asparagus).

But PetaKillsAnimals.com has this to say about how much they fail at actually helping animals, instead of just being the en vogue organization:

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

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.”

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. [Edited for space]

Yah! Go PETA! Check out more dirt on PETA for yourself at PETAKillsAnimals.com.