Better Dead Than Fed

PETA's kills animals. Lots of them. Mainly because it's easier than finding them homes or, you know, feeding and watering and housing them. Read the whole thing, as they say.

This is not the first report that PETA killed animals it claimed to protect. In 1991, PETA killed 18 rabbits and 14 roosters it had previously "rescued" from a research facility. "We just don't have the money" to care for them, then PETA-Chairman Alex Pacheco told the Washington Times. The PETA animal shelter had run out of room.

The Center for Consumer Freedom, which represents the food industry, a frequent target of PETA campaigns, released data filed by PETA with the state of Virginia that shows PETA has killed more than 10,000 animals from 1998 to 2003. "In 2003, PETA euthanized over 85 percent of the animals it took in," said a press release from the lobby, "finding adoptive homes for just 14 percent. By comparison, the Norfolk (Va.) SPCA found adoptive homes for 73 percent of its animals and Virginia Beach SPCA adopted out 66 percent."

Fuck PETA. Fuck them right in the ear. What do they really exist for except as an outlet for monied morons and rabble rousers? And yet it stumbles onward, an overfunded international object of ridicule by anyone with a functioning cerebellum.