Press Release Source: Center for Consumer Freedom CCF Launches Global Campaign to Expose PETA's Animal-Killing Track Record
Wednesday November 14, 2:00 am ET
"PETA Kills Animals" Website Launches in Five Languages WASHINGTON,
DC--(MARKET WIRE)--Nov 14, 2007 -- While loudly complaining about the
"unethical" treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers,
scientists, and clothing retailers, People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PETA) has been hiding its own dirty little secret. Public
records from the State of Virginia show that PETA has killed at least 14,479 dogs, cats, and other "companion animals" at its headquarters.
Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) re-launched its wildly popular website focusing on this hypocrisy -- www.PetaKillsAnimals.com
-- in the English, French, Italian, German, and Russian languages. "PETA
is not what it seems," said CCF Director of Research David Martosko.
"The group kills around 90 percent of the flesh-and-blood animals it
takes in. As PETA tries to globalize its appalling 'animal liberation'
message, people all around the world need to group's horrible hypocrisy."
PETA raises more than $30 million (US) every year, largely from pet
owners who falsely believe their donations help animals.
In reality, PETA has been killing pets for many years. Meanwhile, it has spent tens of millions of dollars on programs equating meat eaters with Nazis, opposing live-saving medical research, scaring young children away from drinking milk, and even defending arsonists and other violent extremists.
"Someone needs to tell the world the truth about PETA," Martosko added.
"PETA accepts animal-lovers' donations with one hand while administering
lethal injections to puppies and kittens with the other." Documents and
photos related to PETA's massive animal-killing program are now
available online at:
English: http://www.PetaKillsAnimals.com French:
http://www.PetaTueAnimaux.fr German: http://www.PetaTotetTiere.de
Italian: http://www.PetaUccideAnimali.it Russian:
http://www.PetaKillsAnimals.ru
During a 2007 U.S. criminal trial, a PETA employee acknowledged killing
pets and disposing of their bodies in a trash dumpster. Another PETA
employee testified that PETA has a walk-in freezer for storing dead
pets, and that PETA uses a crematory service to discard over a ton of dead pets each month.
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