PETA Kills Animals. We're Serious !!!
From the desk of the Consumer Freedom staff.
May 9, 2005
Anyone familiar with People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals (PETA) knows that its
activists complain
bitterly about meat eating, livestock farming,
biomedical research, and every other sensible use of
animals by humankind. Hooking a striped bass, says
PETA, ought to be a crime. And raising a chicken for
food? Forget about it.
PETA's philosophy is built around the idea of "total
animal liberation," a strange utopian vision that
requires us to treat animals as our equals. But PETA,
it turns out, doesn't practice what it preaches. This
weekend the Center for Consumer Freedom unveiled a
gigantic billboard in New York City's famed Times
Square to announce that PETA kills animals.
It's true. PETA has been running its own doggie death
chamber since at least July 1998. Through the end of
2003, PETA killed over 10,000 dogs, cats, puppies
and kittens at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters.
That's more than five animals every day. Instead of
actually caring for these thousands of pets (the same
creatures PETA calls "companion animals"), the group
killed them. And PETA continues to lecture the rest of
us.
In a 2000 Associated Press story, PETA president
Ingrid Newkirk complained that actually taking care of
animals would cost more than killing them. "We could
become a no-kill shelter immediately," she admitted.
She's right. PETA raked in nearly $29 million last year,
much of it from pet owners who think their donations
actually help animals. That kind of dough could
provide food and shelter for every stray animal in
PETA's area code. But PETA has other priorities for its
money: equating people who eat chicken with Nazis,
lying in wait to indoctrinate small children with anti-
milk propaganda, strong-arming restaurant
executives, and even intimidating businessmen and
their families in their own neighborhoods.
PETA has also spent tens of thousands of dollars
defending arsonists and other violent extremists. But
it kills most of the animals it's asked to protect.
Hypocrisy is the mother of all credibility problems, and
PETA has it in spades. For more information, visit
PETAKillsAnimals.com.
PETA kills animals -- and they dare lecture the rest of
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