PETA Reportedly Killed 2,352 Animals in 2009; Just 8 Adoptions

PETA, where killing animals is better than keeping them as pets. crazy assholes. I'm all for treating animals with respect and care but peta are all just nutbags!

This is a mind-blowing revelation, and terrible shame on PETA. They should stick to the PR game they're so good at, but they won't be getting another dime from me, and a lot less respect.

Wow, people really do not see what is going on? Honestly...are you all robots?

PETA obviously is a business that gets away with the fine print, lol. It's about money people.

You want to save animals, go to a shelter and adopt one, don't finance third-party.

Same deal with the red cross.

Honestly? Where do you think we live? It might "seem free" to some of you, but we're just being misguided.

It's ethical to put a dog to sleep if it's in pain or so close to death that it has no substance of life. That doesn't seem to be the case at all in this. Peta needs to get over this "holier than thou" B.S. and stop acting as if they are the only authority on how to treat animals.

I'm all for Ethical treatment of animals myself. But the idea that Peta would take animals without issues, that could be placed in loving and caring homes, and put them to sleep is ridiculous.

Seems to me that Peta has become more of a lobbying group than an animal rights organization.

It's ethical to put a dog to sleep if it's in pain or so close to death that it has no substance of life. That doesn't seem to be the case at all in this. Peta needs to get over this "holier than thou" B.S. and stop acting as if they are the only authority on how to treat animals.

I'm all for Ethical treatment of animals myself. But the idea that Peta would take animals without issues, that could be placed in loving and caring homes, and put them to sleep is ridiculous.

Seems to me that Peta has become more of a lobbying group than an animal rights organization.

I'm all for the ethical treatment of animals but I've never been a fan a PETA. They are just way over the top and at times seem to care more about shock value than the lives of animals

Sometimes it is ethical to put an animal to death, instead of letting it suffer. That being said, PETA should/could definitely do a better job (apparently) at rescuing animals and providing them with the right to a satisfying life. They could open PETA farms in every state for stray animals - no idea if they do this.

They still do a lot for promoting awareness on many animal related issues that most people would normally pay no attention to. So, I guess they have their goods and their bads but overall I would say that they do promote the Ethical Treatment of Animals....

Call me crazy, but I think PETA can do a little better than this.

I took 1 in last year

soo that's what "ethical treatment" means!

I thought everyone knew this? PETA cares about animals as much as Bush cared about innocent Iraqis...

Brainwashing can work for both sides...
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/downloads/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf

The above are official state records submitted by PETA. It might be easy to look at those numbers and say, oh look most of the animals they care for do get placed back into their homes. That's because the PETA shelter, unlike any other virginia shelter includes spaying and neutering cases. In an effort to downplay the huge amount of animals they kill they simply add on unrelated, simple vet procedures onto their total number of "shelter cases".

If you look at the official numbers mentioned above you can actually see that PETA does transfer some of the animals to other adoption shelters... a grand total of 31 out of few thousand they put down. Additionally you can see how many get transfered to the PETA shelter by nearby animal shelters, 7. A number far lower than you would expect were it the official "last resort" shelter.

Additionally, for some fun, since they do talk about the animals that they take in and find homes for, go to their site and try to find out how to adopt one of their sheltered animals. Couldn't find it? Ok, try googling it. Can only find more media crap of them bragging about their celebrity backers? Ok, go onto petfinder.com and try searching for animals in their area. Nope, still not there huh?

http://www.nokillnow.com

Its actually a rate of %0.34 animals being adopted.

But, that doesn't mean that PETA takes animals in, but doesn't give two cents. These statistics give no account for animals that were horribly abused and on their last legs.

PETA is on one extreme, but that doesn't validate the other extreme.

PETA is a great and noble organization that has done a great deal to raise public awareness to the sad plight of many animals.

This article and thread is but an example of statistics being twisted so as to demonize PETA.

This is exactly what the meat packing industry, factory farming interests, hunters, furriers, circus owners and others who make a living exploiting and torturing animals want. Those of you who are hating on PETA have been manipulated by these corporate interests. These interests fear the power of PETA to enlighten and inform.

Congratulations kids, you have been astroturfed.

PETA might as well be a terrorist group. Assaulting people, (the infamous paint throwing), and targeting little kids, (handing out those McMurder meals or whatever they called them to kids at McDonalds. Would have gotten a roundhouse to the teeth had they harassed my kids like that.) No better than anti-abortion extremists flying airplane banners of pieces of aborted babies over elementary schools. Terrorists!

Don't you understand. It's ok when THEY do it, but when YOU infringe on an animals right to eat your cattle or spread diseases all over your food then you are Hitler. /sarcasm

have your pets fixed...................

It’s probably a matter of animals like the type rescued by the aspca where it’s a long shot at survival or rehabilitation

I wouldn't donate a dime to PETA. I don't like radicalism of any sort and PETA stands at the top.

I also saw this reported on CNN with Jack Cafferty the other day. The reason they used was that those animals were already near death. I don't accept that. If this is true, it surely shows them for the hypocrites they are while they wag their fingers at others.

super sad yo......open ur eyes, who cares whos right or wrong stats an facts, in a world where systematic killing of humans is still tolerated, did you really think animals had or have a chance, all you can do is hold on to the ones ya got...

Statistics alone do not adequately represent the events.

You gotta hand it to Guyatthebusstation - he's a sport.

This article is misleading, deliberately, and should not be taken at face value.

My hometown's adopt-a-pet shelter has an annual budget of $5,000 and manages to find homes for at least a dozen animals MONTHLY!!

Wonder how many PETA members actually know this info, and the one's that do know--how do they spin it in their minds to make it justifiable.

PETA is not an adoptive agency but a "shelter of last resort," taking in animals that other shelters reject because they are unadoptable and euthanizing those that are suffering. They refer adoptable animals to the nearby Virginia Beach Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

A little fact checking goes along way.

If you really believe, like the leadership of PETA says they believe, that the life of a dog or cat or person is the same then you shouldn’t support PETA. There are plenty of example of no-kill animal shelters that make due without a fraction of the money PETA pulls in a year and they only put down animals with terminal conditions.

I been around long enough to know this happens all the time. One large no kill shelter in the northeast sends animals they cannot adopt to the local SPCA. This way they don't kill them but leave it to the SPCA to do their dirty work. Most people are unaware but up to 85% of all cats and kittens turned into shelters are killed. If the shelter is crowed they will kill up to 30 kittens a day. But who is really to blame. Most shelters are on a tight budget and most of their money is spent on dogs. I worked at a shelter who put a cat with a broken leg down and yet spent over 4500 on medical care for a 12 year old dog. the dog died from old age a couple months later but because a board member had a thing for older dogs it got its injuries fixed. You can compare cats in a mixed shelter to people on death row in Texas. They may be innocent but hell we love to kill in Texas. every time you allow you cat to have a litter of kittens another litter has to die to make room for it. Animal rights groups are not in the business of saving animals but making you aware of the ways it can be done by membership, buying their wares and following them blindly while their profits shoot thru the ceiling. Some are no better than companies like Haliburton. Attend a local meeting of any animal right group and I bet you will have more concerned about circus animals, mouse traps than you will about getting stray animals spayed and finding homes for. Want to really save an animal life, save your money you usually give to groups and spay/neuter a unwanted animal at a shelter, they do not euthanize spayed animals as a rule or your neighbors pet who keeps having litters. Feed stray animals, a cat has to catch up to 11 mice a day to be able to survive. Take a stray in and make it house friendly while trying to find a home for it. Even though shelters do kill they are still the best place for the unwanted, help them with money, buy pet food, donate old towels, blankets, pillows. Many have flea markets that they need help running and getting donations. They do more that the groups with their fancy magazines and pictures.

source is not credible; smells like a smear campaign; voted down

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