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PETA Killed 97 Percent of 'Companion Animals' in 2006

sev.prnewswire.com — An official report from PETA shows that the animal rights group put to death more than 97 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets it took in for adoption in 2006. The average euthanasia rate for humane societies in the state was just 34.7 percent.

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  • neio, on 01/12/2008, -13/+462PETA = People Euthanising Tons of Animals.
  • akkibaba, on 01/12/2008, -11/+326Apparently there's only a 3% difference between a PETA shelter and a slaughterhouse,
  • pooper, on 01/12/2008, -30/+316PETA is a damn scary organization. The amount of power they have is frightening. They burn and vandalize buildings. Just watch that *****! episode on PETA.
  • mablco, on 01/12/2008, -12/+218thats up from 90% in 2005
  • neio, on 01/12/2008, -28/+200Peta are a bunch of donkey ball sucking *****.
  • benroy, on 01/12/2008, -15/+157P.eople for the
    E.thical
    T.ermination of
    A.nimals
  • duggtodeath, on 01/12/2008, -18/+156***** PETA
  • jetblackz4, on 01/12/2008, -20/+140So they rescue animals only to kill them? They do not care about animals all they care about is causing havoc.
  • carpespasm, on 01/12/2008, -3/+123a 3% death rate, but the amount of wasted meat between a good slaughterhouse and PETA is pretty disparaging.
  • QGYH2, on 01/12/2008, -18/+111this is disturbing news.. to sasy the least
  • allaboutdatiki, on 01/12/2008, -8/+88PS: "The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit coalition of restaurants, food companies, and consumers working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices."
  • akkibaba, on 01/12/2008, -6/+79They're stepping up to the plate 3% of the time. The other 97% of animals are murdered, aren't they? So where does PETA get the balls to criticize meat eaters or even medical research done on animals?
  • revslowmo, on 01/12/2008, -4/+75I think PETA should start adopting crows in my area, they keep waking me up. I am sure they will do the right thing and kill them.
  • inactive, on 01/12/2008, -3/+70This "disturbing news" has been around for at least 3 years. 2006 is just the latest in a long line of reports showing PETA to be a joke. They killed over 10,000 animals from 2003-2005 (when I first heard about their crap).

    The last line of the story says it all"


    "PETA raised over $30 million last year," Martosko added, "and it's using that money to kill the only flesh-and-blood animals its employees actually see. The scale of PETA's hypocrisy is simply staggering."
  • KC67, on 01/12/2008, -7/+74Are we really surprised?? Look at the lengths they go to just to get their point across. PETA sucks and I'll never support anything they do.
  • akkibaba, on 01/12/2008, -6/+64Don't do the whole ad hominem thing here.
    Are his numbers true or not? That is the one and only question here. If they are, and PETA indeed kills 97% of the animals they take in, why does it matter what the source of the information is?
  • InspectorGadget, on 01/12/2008, -19/+74There's a disturbing number of people in here defending PETA: an organization that has given money to the ELF (notorious "green" arsonists), lobbies ceaselessly against milk in schools (go osteoporosis!), and consistently issues completely made-up statements about how terrible meat is.
    Animal proteins are the ONLY proteins that are individually complete (source: World Health Organization), humans are not and have never been vegetarians (we have canine teeth for tearing meat, no real appendix, an inability to digest cellulose meaning that a majority of plant tissue is worthless to us as a nutrition source), and milk is one of the most bioavailable sources of calcium.
    Lastly, I have a bone to pick with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (a PETA front): they are headed by a man who by training is a psychiatrist and has NO physical health credentials. Most of their members are likewise not medical doctors, and those who are have done little or no nutritional research. Neither organization has any facts to back up their positions; they literally make it up as they go along.
  • inactive, on 01/12/2008, -3/+53So murdering puppies because they didn't get adopted in 30 days is "humane and ethical"?
  • achoo5000, on 01/12/2008, -4/+50I'm an animal lover and vegetarian. PETA sucks. There are much better organizations, such as the SPCA and Humane Society.
  • Linzee82, on 01/12/2008, -1/+45@kinseyincanada - Look at the numbers. You can't seriously believe that only 12 people in the US wanted pets. And if you do, you fail. I'm sure that if all the diggers out here asked their friends if they wanted pets, WE could have rescued more than twelve.
  • sexualpredator, on 01/12/2008, -3/+39PETA has nothing to do with saving animals and everything to do with narcissism.
    Lets get it straight, PETA did a great thing during the 80s by ending the standard of inhumanity in regards to animal products across the United States. But after they fixed that, they had nothing else to bitch at, but they loved the money so they had to get pissed about something else =(
    I was a vegetarian for over 10 years of my life, when I was 13 I sent PETA $25 and have regretted it since.
  • j519638, on 01/12/2008, -1/+33so do the local SPCA organizations, and you don't hear about them killing 97% of the animals they rescue. Regardless of how you look at the situation PETA is not doing the job that they say they are committed to accomplishing, saving animals by treating them ethically. Killing something in the name of treating them ethically is dumb, should we kill all of the homeless people because that is the type of argument that the articles implies
  • jmpeagle, on 01/12/2008, -6/+37are the number inaccurrate? No. I don't care if the news source is Al-Qaeda or the local Neo-Nazi network or some young Communists group...if the information is factual then it is still news.

    So instead of attacking the onformation, you are attacking the messengers...basically resulting into ad hominems
  • 28dayslater, on 01/12/2008, -8/+39I would rather be set free to become feral than killed. That would be more ethical to me.
  • inactive, on 01/12/2008, -4/+35PETA are the worse people on earth. Their level of "better than thou" attitude makes me sick, especially after this article. Who are they to tell me what I can and cannot eat? Every time I see PETA protesting or causing a scene somewhere, it makes me want to stab a bunny, just to balance out the universe. PETA people are seriously nuts, look at the ads where they compare animals as pets to humans as slaves. As humans, our bodies are designed, from our hunter instinctual brains, to our meat digesting stomachs, to be omnivores. Why is it the vegans are always paper-thin and have medical conditions, and look like cancer patients? If you are a member of PETA or even a casual sympathizer you can suck my balls, you self-righteous, pompous, hypocritical ***** tool.
  • Rikkochet, on 01/12/2008, -7/+37Yeah, PETA just supports them.
  • warlokaz2004, on 01/12/2008, -9/+39Penn and Tellers "*****" does a great expose on PETA and the fact that yes, so many animals lovingly 'adopted' wind up killed
  • sirbeta, on 01/12/2008, -11/+41Alright guy, we get it. You really like PETA. You can move along now. The rest of us sensible people will continue hating the massive contradiction/hypocrisy that is PETA.
  • cxzsaq, on 01/12/2008, -11/+39i think there maybe more statistics in there that need to be observed. PETA adopts distressed animals too, who may need to be killed. whatever though. *****' crazy!
  • Grommy, on 01/12/2008, -5/+33I usually don't digg comments like this, but damn if you don't deserve one.
  • Linzee82, on 01/12/2008, -7/+34Here's the problem. Everyone thinks it stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. In reality, it stands for People for Extortion, Terror, and Abuse. So there is nothing ethical about them.
  • Alphabet, on 01/12/2008, -2/+26@leftcoastfunk

    wtf? Both the humane society and peta takes in healthy/diseased animals. You just said so yourself. Both the humane society and peta takes in ALL animals. The humane society, however, kills diseased animals instantly. Peta, on the other hand, kills both healthy AND diseased. That's why peta has a 97% euthanasia rate, while the humane society only has 34..7%.
  • jmpeagle, on 01/12/2008, -5/+29basically PETA sucks at their job. Other organizations who do the same stuff have a much better record. What is specifically wrong with PETA that other animal rights groups have seemed to have overcome?
  • rarson, on 01/12/2008, -2/+26PETA kills animals. This is not news.

    It makes no sense for PETA to be supported by animal lovers. For one thing, they kill animals. Secondly, they don't think your pets should be "enslaved," meaning they don't think you should be allowed to have pets. How many pet owners donate to PETA? You're a sucker if you do.
  • sirbeta, on 01/12/2008, -5/+29I really don't care what the reasoning is. It's entirely hypocritical that they hate on us meat eaters/pet owners, but their 3% success rate is horrible. I don't care how many animals they get in, if they truly believe what they preach themselves--they would not let this happen.
  • explnx, on 04/27/2009, -5/+28Supports them with cash, to be clear.
  • LLamaStar, on 01/12/2008, -1/+24ROFL..."they are humanly put to death"
    ...yeah instead of being able to roam around in our society....we wouldn't want that!
    god you ***** are such hypocrites.
  • pendrachken, on 01/12/2008, -5/+28***** off, peta loving tool.

    Guess what, humans have been killing animals for food for a lot longer than we have been raising them.

    And i REALLY hope you are vegan and get grossed out.... But us meat eater do the humane thing and KILL out food, just think of the last apple you ate...... you ate it ALIVE.
  • inactive, on 01/12/2008, -2/+25"They can't release them into the wild to become ferals feeding on natives" Why not? I would love to see a population of wild miniature dachshunds in my area. It'd be awesome.
  • technoredneck, on 01/12/2008, -2/+24This is very true, but there are a lot of other sources, including PETA itself to an extent, that admit to them doing this sort of thing. Google it. From what I gather, they consider domesticated animals (especially those kept as companions) immoral and somehow 'second-class' animals, because they wouldn't exist without human intervention.
  • lowryba, on 01/12/2008, -7/+29Penn & Teller, ***** episode about PETA:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTQCQ1eI7Is
  • jmpeagle, on 01/12/2008, -5/+27so basically we hould be allowed to eat dogs and cats because that would solve a lot of our over0supply problem
  • inactive, on 01/12/2008, -2/+24Their definition of suffering is being owned by a human. They believe animals should have equal if not more rights than humans. This is insane. In their rational, its better dead than as a human slave. ***** wackos
  • aywwts4, on 01/12/2008, -0/+21Thats simply not true, at least where I live, Human Societies often take in large numbers of puppy mill, stinking of their own urine, crazy cat lady, crazy pit bull dude, animals. Often the human society puts out press releases saying they need certain types of homes without children and whatnot to try and adopt some of these dogs.

    My mother in law's dog which was adopted from the humane society was a crazy drooling mess of a dog that stunk of piss for weeks and wouldn't move after being locked in a tiny cage for 4 years. Now you would never know.
  • 4orced4door, on 01/12/2008, -0/+21Tastey? Seriousley?
  • Linzee82, on 01/12/2008, -4/+23Just to help your point, PETA provided the paperwork to show how many animals they killed. And it's not the only one they put out.
  • inactive, on 01/12/2008, -3/+22@ killwize
    I think you need some protein, if you don't belived that humans are designed to eat meat, explain why we cave canines or lack an appendix? Any meat eaters who assault you are in the wrong, but I find it hard to believe people actually hit you because you don't eat meat. Every single vegan I've ever met all spend most of their time preaching the evils of meat consumption, this probably has something to do with the so-called "assaults" if they ever even happened.
  • CokeBear, on 01/12/2008, -7/+26I always thought it was People Eating Tasty Animals
  • amoirae, on 01/12/2008, -2/+20But they only suck the donkey balls as a compassionate outreach gesture.
  • mnocket, on 01/12/2008, -2/+20bitcloud, I have set up an animal rescue group. It's not hard at all. Our annual budget is only a couple of thousand dollars, not $30 million. With that amount, we placed 126 animals last year. We put down 3 do to illness. The money donated to PETA would be much more effectively utilized if given to the many small rescue groups spread throughout the country. PETA is not interested in saving the animals placed in their care. They are interested in pushing an ideology. I guess you are too.
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