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FACTPETA killed 86.3% of the animals in its care in 2004.
In June 2005, police investigators staked out a garbage container in Ahoskie, North Carolina after discovering that over one hundred dead animals had been dumped over the course of a month. [42]
Police observed PETA employees Andrew Benjamin Cook and Adria Joy Hinkle approach the trash container behind a grocery store in a van registered to PETA and dump 18 dead animals into it. Thirteen more were found inside the van. The animals were from shelters in Northampton and Bertie counties, where they were going to be euthanized with gas - PETA picked them up to euthanize them by injection, which is considered more humane. Police charged Cook and Hinkle each with 31 felony counts of animal cruelty and eight misdemeanor counts of illegal disposal of dead animals. These were dismissed on 14 October 2005, and 25 felony charges (22 of animal cruelty and three felony charges of obtaining property by false pretense) brought in their place. The latter charges are based on PETA having euthanized three cats from an Ahoskie veterinarian after allegedly promising to find the animals new homes [43])
Newkirk condemned the dumping of the animals, but noted "PETA has never made a secret of the fact that most of the animals picked up in North Carolina are euthanized." [44] According to PETA's own filings with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 86.3% of the animals in its care in 2004. [45]. Similar filings for the Norfolk SPCA shelter, located 3.5 miles from the PETA headquarters, show that the Norfolk SPCA killed fewer than 5% of animals in its care. (PETA has pointed out that the Norfolk SPCA refuses to take in stray and unadoptable animals so they can continue to call themselves a "no-kill" shelter.) PETA has defended euthanasia by arguing that there are far more unwanted dogs and cats than there are good homes (millions of dogs and cats are euthanized every year in the US) and that euthanizing dogs and cats is more humane than leaving them on the street or putting them in a cage in a shelter for the rest of their lives.
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PETA has also been accused of targeting "vulnerable or emotionally sensitive" groups, particularly teenage girls, and was ordered by Great Britain's Advertising Standards Authority to discontinue claims it made about milk consumption in a campaign targeted at school children.[32] The ad featured trading cards with statements such as "Sue's milk-drinking led to her battle with zits." Other cards claimed that dairy products cause obesity, belching and flatulence, and excessive nasal mucus build up. In response to the ruling, PETA modified the cards to address the Standards Authority's regulations. wikipedia.org
PETA is a multinational corporate, with no morals or ethics. It claims McDonalds uses bad practices, when the animals PETA saves, are dumped behind grocery stores, it gases animals to death to save money; and tricks school kids with lies about milk!
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I haven't read all the comments yet, but I just want to point out that PETA also endorses and support Breed Specific Legislation - which amounts to dog racism where innocent loving family pets are stolen and murdered just because they look like/are pitbulls. PETA is the most hypocritical bullshit organization on the planet and they probably do try and recruit people who are least likely to think for themselves and question the status quo. I was down with PETA when I was a teenager, then I got wise to their bullshit. It's one thing to love animals, people, but seriously you gotta question shit that's going on around you. There is nothing that can justify killing innocent dogs that already have loving homes. Nothing at all. Yet PETA endorses and encourages this! It doesn't make you an animal-hater or a bad person to disagree with what PETA is about.
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cool, thats given me an amazing idea for a set of ads,
will try and find time
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Cool I'll look forward to seein them. Am I watching you? I think I saw your thing on some club...
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I would like to thank everyone for their replies,
this is officially the most controversial piece on DA?
Matt, it appears you deleted my work of adbusters,
ANOTHER case of PETA overstepping their power
Now you are trying to CENSOR me? where does PETA stop?
Thanks to adbusters for sorting out Matts little tantrum
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there are many alternatives to killing. for example, if you turn dogs into homeless people... we don't want to kill them because they have no home! I don't think "sacrifice" is the best option, as I culdn't do it with any other sentient beings.
in any case, I read some months ago that it's a campaign launched by animal exploitators, so they cannot complain since they enrich by using other animals, it's their businness.
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But you do want to kill them because they're pitbulls (or look like pitbulls)...even if they have good homes. That's fuckin pathetic. PETA sucks.
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I don't want to kill nobody... that's why I'm vegan
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You can be vegan without supporting PETA. PETA endorses and encourages killing family pets. It's just sick.
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NOW AVAILABLE IN DUPLEXSUPERCOLOURFRO or something like that....
I'm on board over at *adbusters [link] after this piece
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oh and do you eat meat/dairy/eggs?
just looking at the bottom piece on the deviation says only cowards kill animals
case rested
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Killing an animal for the reason of we donβt *think* it can be adopted is, to me, paramount to murder. Β Killing an animal for food or clothes, in such a way that it can be used to help a person, to make their life better, is more than okay to me.
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what case is rested?
the ad is merely intended to enlight the audience to the facts, that behind the mask is something much darker.
The animals that are killed for my food, are killed for a reason - food
The 'euthanasia' of animals, because they cannot be rehomed is a different matter entirely.
"we come under flak from people every day yet there are millions of people who would disagree with you"... so? along with every other political party/religion/MULTI-NATIONAL
like every other MNC, there is evidence of you cutting corners left, right and centre, but of course, none of these 'mistakes' were initiated by any specific management, they were commited by the animal 'lovers' who 'work' for you.
You claim you have a clever marketing team; yet I could knock up a better advert for your company in 5minutes, but i wouldn't I don't like lying... as the old saying goes LYING ISN'T BIG AND ISNT CLEVER...
So what does your marketing team do? package an organisation in a nice little brand wrapper, hiding the truths perhaps? At least my mock-up of ad doesn't contain any lies; unlike a high majority of yours
Theres little point arguing on here, if the public knew the truths then you would have no support, you target audience is the softer consumer, who would be against the majority of your org, if it wasnt for you 'clever' IMC.
If i really wanted to and had the time, I would conduct my own report into the activity of PETA, and show you are not what you seem.
I am not implying you personal make these decisions, infact the whole point of my arguement is that it's not personal; it's merely a portrait of a few facts that you keep tucked away.
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If i really wanted to and had the time, I would conduct my own report into the activity of PETA, and show you are not what you seem.
so do it - put your money where your mouth is and i would be able to discredit and prive you wrong at every turn!
don't hide behind the bullshit - call me on 0207 357 9229 ext 223 - we'll talk about it - go on i fucking dare you - challenge me to prove that we work for the protection of animals - that we save so many fucking animals that you wouldn't be able to count
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How is BSL protecting animals? Do you know what you support? In Denver the animal control thugs go from house to house and steal kids' beloved pets and murder them because they look like/are pitbulls. PETA endorses BSL, it used to be on their website, but I couldn't find it now. Perhaps they've lost too many supporters over that? I didn't find any retraction of it either, so I just assume they are being quieter about it now but still endorse it. PETA is bullshit.
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Well lets do a little case study:
PETA has also been accused of targeting "vulnerable or emotionally sensitive" groups, particularly teenage girls, and was ordered by Great Britain's Advertising Standards Authority to discontinue claims it made about milk consumption in a campaign targeted at school children.[32] The ad featured trading cards with statements such as "Sue's milk-drinking led to her battle with zits." Other cards claimed that dairy products cause obesity, belching and flatulence, and excessive nasal mucus build up. In response to the ruling, PETA modified the cards to address the Standards Authority's regulations. wikipedia.org
So this is not you lying through advertising?
Is there any evidence milk has any negative side-effects, without quoting facts regarding over consumption? I can't seem to find any empirical results, and i have access to the majority of the worlds research data through athens an other services. Why do you think you were made to change these advertisments by the authorities?
Are you ACTUALLY an official representative of PETA, because if you are, I would sack you for your outburst on here, even if it is under personal comments; you still made a point of quoting your PETA position.
You make your organisation seem unprofessional, reducing this little debate to a sparing match; haviing to retort with swearing as you cannot articulate a vaild answer
You claim you are 'sick of being the spokesman and taking all the shit' - well as you started this discussion, surely you have to accept that their are different views; I didn't 'give you shit' at all; I merely voiced an educated opinion supported by proven, and valid facts (unlike your advertising), there were no personal attacks on you (unlike the attacks you have made on me)
'read the facts for yourself - make up your own fucking mind' - Well suprisingly enough I have, hence the conclusion I came up with, In fact I have a whole host of concept designs that illustrate you lies
'if you trust the media' - Well I obviously don't as I don't trust your advertising...
I've no-doubt working at PETA you would able to come up with some 'facts' that would discredit parts of a paper against you, but thats not really the point is it? The point is not that you care for animals, I dont argue with that, i'm sure you love them in all sorts of ways; the point is the manner in which your organisation operates is unethically, and full of mispractices.
'call me on ***' 'i fucking dare you' - why? are we going to come to some mid-point about this discussion, and establish a new concept for PETA? I doubt it
'save so many fucking animals' - I know you keep going on about you like 'fucking animals', but the point is - is killing them, saving them?
'you wouldn't be able to count' - are you trying to insinuate that I am uneducated? And why would you make that assumption? Because I am an artist?
Well if this is the case, you are more stupid than I originally thought, My education is of a very high-level, and just about to get even better.
You just have to go to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council chair Fred Zeidman to look at the lack of ethics of you organisation, Zeidman said PETA "has chosen to ignore common decency," "to desecrate the memory of Holocaust victims, survivors and their families in its perverted effort to generate headlines."
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"The animals that are killed for my food, are killed for a reason - food" - actually it's money but what the hey
"The 'euthanasia' of animals, because they cannot be rehomed is a different matter entirely." you would rather they got killed inhumanely, seriously, this is the only other way of things, than with an injection that puts them to sleep peacefully and with as little pain as possible? if you answer yes to that question then it puts light on the sort of person you are
""we come under flak from people every day yet there are millions of people who would disagree with you"... so? along with every other political party/religion/MULTI-NATIONAL" so deviantart is a corporation, you're still on here...
"like every other MNC, there is evidence of you cutting corners left, right and centre, but of course, none of these 'mistakes' were initiated by any specific management, they were commited by the animal 'lovers' who 'work' for you." what evidence?
"You claim you have a clever marketing team; yet I could knock up a better advert for your company in 5minutes, but i wouldn't I don't like lying... as the old saying goes LYING ISN'T BIG AND ISNT CLEVER...
So what does your marketing team do? package an organisation in a nice little brand wrapper, hiding the truths perhaps? At least my mock-up of ad doesn't contain any lies; unlike a high majority of yours" i could knock up a better ad, - so could 100,000 other people - but you try and afford to put that ad in a newspaper, let alone tv, we can't afford that because we don't rake in millions, we scrimp and save money so we can educate vegetarian/animal testing/clothing issues
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dude, i'm glad to see that you have so much passion for a cause, but plain and simple PETA wants money too, If you really want to make a diffence, really want to change things, start your own animal rights group in your local community. Sitting back and throwning money in to a big corparation just screws you over.
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Do you also train lions to eat an entirely vegetarian diet?
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I would prefer they were killed inhumanely.
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we don't keep any facts tucked away, the media takes care of that - i'm actually really fucked off because despite all the excellent work we do people seem to still pick holes in stupid fucking things that the media twist to make out we're not the good company we make out to be - well who fucking isn't!!
you don't like it - too fucking bad - i'm sick of being the spokesman and taking all the shit - read the facts for yourself - make up your own fucking mind
oh and by the way - if you trust the media - then why the hell are you submitting stuff to adbusters (my founded group?)
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Thank you for showing this about PETA about the North Carolina situation. That means you care, and i wish everyone did. All comments we receive regarding this situation are being reviewed by PETA US senior staff as well as staff involved in the Domestic Animals Department.
First, the report from North Carolina regarding the dumping of animal bodies in a dumpster by a PETA US staff member is deeply upsetting. It is against PETAβs policy to put the bodies of euthanized animals in dumpsters, as you might imagine, and they are appalled that a member of their staff apparently did that. Despite the fact that PETA US knows this woman to be a caring soul and someone who has done much selfless work to help animals, there is no excuse for what happened. As an initial result, she has been suspended. They have launched their own investigation of the circumstances surrounding this case.
Because there has also been a great deal of misinformation in the news about this case and its circumstances, I want to provide you with some additional background information β something the media has not done.
PETA US started working in North Carolina in 2000, after they were contacted by a police officer who was distressed by conditions in a county pound. North Carolina has the second-highest rate per capita of euthanasia in the country β 35 animals killed annually for every 1,000 residents. Most do not die a humane death. When PETA US steps in to humanely euthanize animals β at no cost to the participating shelters β as they did in this instance, their involvement prevents animals from being shot to death with a .22 calibre firearm, being gassed to death in an old, rusty metal box, injected with a paralytic that causes slow suffocation without loss of consciousness, suffering for weeks on end from disease and illness, or worse. In some of those places, dogs had drowned in floods and frozen to death in winter.
PETA US are a βshelter of last resort,β offering a humane death to animals who would otherwise suffer a slow and painful end. To learn more about the conditions that led to PETA US involvement in these North Carolina counties, and some of the many improvements they have been able to make, please visit [link]
Sadly, the shelters PETA US works with in North Carolina also have no adoption programs or hours set aside for adoption. In fact, most of them have no staff on site. PETA US has begged for years, through formal proposals and numerous meetings, for officials to allow them to implement an adoption program as part of a larger picture of shelter improvements that would also include a spay/neuter program, a humane education program, 24/7 emergency services and rabies clinics.
It is important to add that PETA US does not run an adoption facility themselves β they refer most adoptable animals to known shelters open to public traffic, although they have managed to place 360 animals in excellent, lifelong homes in just the past year. There is, in fact, a North Carolina dog called Dovey in the US office as this is written.
It is also PETA US policy that no one on staff is ever to give anyone the impression that animals accepted are being taken for placement. From what they have been able to determine in this situation, the shelters from which PETA US staff picked up the dogs were fully aware of this fact, although it may be politic for them to deny that now, given the outcry. It is PETA US policy as well that the vast majority of animals they accept are only those who are in terrible conditions or unadoptable for some reason, such as aggression or sickness in old age.
I wish that there were other options available. PETA US cannot bring the majority of animals back to Virginia for placement. The same issues regarding adoptability of injured, sick, or old animals exist everywhere, and βall-admissionβ shelters (those which, unlike so-called βno-killβ, shelters, never turn their backs on any animal) are, as in the rest of the country, already unable to cope with the overpopulation of unwanted animals and cannot find enough homes for all of them. Using Virginia shelters also means that there would be fewer homes for animals already in Virginia adoption facilities.
Some might argue that the solution to this crisis of overpopulation of so many unwanted animals is to open sanctuaries. But the sad reality is that the math doesnβt add up. There is not enough money available to anyone to build enough sanctuaries or organize enough animal-adoption programs to keep up with the number of unwanted animals, particularly those animals deemed βundesirableβ because of their infirmities, age or behaviour. And putting all your resources into fostering and kennelling unwanted animals does nothing to stop the flow of more and more unwanteds. The source of the problem - trying to stop future unwanteds from being born β is where the money needs to go.
I and PETA believe that the spaying and neutering of animals, supported by appropriate local laws, is the single most effective tool in reducing the number of unwanted animals. For that reason, our humane education and outreach programs promote spaying and neutering. Our goal is to create a society where every dog and cat has a loving home. PETA have always advocated fixing the problems of overpopulation through practical methods, including encouraging people not to patronise pet shops or breeders. Those stories, however, rarely get coverage in the media.
As well as paying for sterilization of animals in North Carolina, PETA US run a mobile spay/neuter clinic in Virginia seven days a week. It focuses much of its work in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, where they offer free and low-cost surgeries and other services such as flea/tick treatments and worming. In the last year, we have sterilized more than 7,600 dogs and cats, including feral animals β many free of charge and all others at well below cost. To date, PETA US have sterilized nearly 25,000 in the clinic. Support for this program is much needed, as you can imagine.
PETA has always spoken openly about euthanasia, on their Web site and in their publications and β while I understand that it is upsetting to learn about β it is necessary in this imperfect world, and we hope you understand that it is gut-wrenching for the PETA US staff and the staff at shelters across the world who care deeply for animals to have to hold animals in their arms and take their lives because there is nowhere decent for them to go. Euthanasia will continue to be necessary until people prevent dogs and cats from bringing new litters into the world and as long as people hide their heads in the sand and leave the dirty work to others.
I hope this has shed some light on what happened, our policies and PETA USβs work in this area. Thank you for caring enough to bring this to light.
As for the fact that PETA is a Multinational Corporation, yes - you're right, we need money to do our work much as anyone else does, we aren't unethical in our advertising, we're just clever and have a whole team of marketing people behind us, we spread the word about vegetarian issues and stop cruelty in the world like no other organisation - we come under flak from people every day yet there are millions of people who would disagree with you
Matt Goldsmith
Administrative Assistant
PETA Europe Ltd
Mattg@peta.org.uk
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HI;GFY
(that means "hey idiot, go fuck yourself")
You're on a page that was created by to inform you of "truth" (despite his lack of proper citations, poor and sloppy "copy and paste" translation of wikipedia's articles to external sites, and inability to respond intelligently to differing views), and yet you blow off the chance to have the original message challenged? Sounds like you might miss out on some of this "knowledge is power thing". Whether is 100% right or 100% wrong, you're a moron.
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Thank you, good sir, for reminding me of something I did a good year ago. I was not disagreeing or agreening with veganvictim, I was simply pointing out how walls of text are bad.
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No prob. Thing is, it's not the best of places to tell someone with a passionate cause that they're being "boring" for turning an accuser's statements on it's ass.
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Now thats, Proper-'Proper'ganda
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no - you;re just taking one side and reading into it what you will
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I can't speculate as I don't know the facts.
That's the problem isn't it. We never really know what's propoganda and what's truth. We never will.
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