People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, based in Virginia, has an annual average budget of approximately $32 million - derived from the contributions of kind-hearted vegetables who believe in their professed goal of humane treatment for animals. While much of that money goes to administrative overhead, 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.”
In order to maintain their status as a non-profit, PETA also runs an animal shelter.
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.
According to PETA, fishing is inhumane. They go so far as to refer to fish as "sea kittens" in some of their propaganda:
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.
Please take just a few moments to send an e-mail to H. Dale Hall, the director of the FWS, asking him to stop promoting the hunting of sea kittens (otherwise known as “fishing”). The promotion of sea kitten hunting is a glaring contradiction of FWS’ mission to “conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats.”
It seems that of all organizations to blat about "glaring contradictions", PETA is among the least credible. Why people continue to donate to them, and how the organization can sustain tax-free status as a non-profit, is mystifying.
