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PETA’s Sinking Ship
As we wrote last week, PETA’s long-standing practice of euthanizing over 90 percent of the dogs and cats in its pet shelters has garnered attention from the New York Times. Apparently, we’re not the only ones who picked up on this coverage, as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette also editorialized today on the hypocritical position in which PETA has placed itself […]
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If You Give Money to PETA, You Contribute to Pet Killing
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an animal liberation group made notorious by its providing financial support to arsonists; giving money to the Earth Liberation Front, a group then-Deputy Assistant Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Carson Carroll testified was one of “the most active extremists movements in the United […]
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PETA’s Shelter Killing Gets NYTimes Treatment
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ name should say it all: A group of people who are standing up for dogs and cats to be treated well. At least that’s what PETA would have you to believe, such as when it pictures a cute dog on its “Donate Now” webpage. But as a recent article in The New York Times makes clear, if that dog ends up in the radical animal […]
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Is PETA SLAPPing the Internet?
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) doesn’t like it when other people — including us, through our PETA Kills Animals project — point out that the world’s most notorious animal liberation group kills large numbers of dogs and cats in its Virginia animal shelter. Last year, state records show that PETA killed nearly […]
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PETA to Local Shelter: Kill More Animals
Normally, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) — the latest entrant to the drone market — takes every media hit it can performing stunts to oppose the killing of animals. Whether for clothing, eating, or curing AIDS, you can be sure PETA “lettuce ladies” will be out in force trying to stop the […]
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PETA: Putting Drones Before Homeless Pets
A heartwarming story from Portsmouth, Virginia is crossing the wires: A dog found near death by animal control and sent to the Portsmouth Humane Society has been adopted and is doing well in the care of her new owner, a veterinary technician. The dog — named “Hope” by Portsmouth Humane staff — was lucky to […]
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Are We All Vegans Now?
Claiming that vegetarianism is just about to break through, this time is a classic animal liberationist tactic to peer-pressure omnivores into giving up their milk, bacon, and eggs. We covered a story last week that said all the cool pre-tweens were going veggie—a report that was full of more holes than Swiss cheese. Now the […]
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Newkirk Defends PETA’s Doggy Killing
The sordid tale of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) doggy-and-kitty-killing ways has made a big splash across the pond, and a reporter with the Sunday edition of The Guardian sat down with the group’s president, Ingrid Newkirk, to let her explain herself. At the end of the profile, the reporter challenges Newkirk […]
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PETA’s True “Colours” Exposed
For all the talk People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) offers on “ethical treatment,” the group does seem to kill a lot of pets in its animal shelter — over 1600 last year, for a kill rate just shy of 90 percent. Our PETA Kills Animals project collects PETA’s animal record summaries provided […]
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PETA’s Death Toll Nears 30,000 Pets
Since at least 1998, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has operated a pet “shelter” — more than the misnamed Humane Society of the United States can claim. Unfortunately the dogs and cats that are taken into PETA’s shelter are usually killed. And those that were sheltered in 2012 are no exception: According to Virginia state regulatory […]