Monday, March 30, 2009

PETA's slaughterhouses

The name could not be more ironic. PETA, or the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals killed 95% of the pets under its care in 2008. PETA Kills Animals reports:
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.

To put things in perspective, PETA's website tries to stop hunting of sea kittens thus:

Given the drastic situation for this country's sea kittens—who are often the victims of many major threats to their welfare and ways of life—it's high time that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) stop allowing our little sea kitten friends to be tortured and killed. Who'd want to hurt a sea kitten anyway?!

Sea kittens are just as intelligent (not to mention adorable) as dogs and cats, and they feel pain just as all animals do.


If this is not hypocrisy, what is?