Here’s what the “PETA Kills Animals” website claims: PETA has killed 17,400 dogs and cats in the past nine years, and has a giant walk-in freezer to hide the bodies until a crematory service picks them up every month. In some cases, PETA employees have been convicted of tossing puppy and kitten bodies into trash dumpsters.

Here is a "must-see" video entitled: PETA Kills Animals.

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And here is a video showing a debate between PETA and the NRA; where the Andrew Butler, a PETA spokesman concedes that they DO kill animals.

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Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters. According to public records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 21,339 dogs and cats have died at the hands of PETA workers.

Despite having a $32 million budget, PETA does not operate an adoption shelter. PETA employees make no discernible effort to find homes for the thousands of pets they kill every year. Last year, the Center for Consumer Freedom petitioned Virginia’s State Veterinarian to reclassify PETA as a slaughterhouse. CCF Research Director David Martosko said: “PETA hasn’t slowed down its hypocritical killing machine one bit, but it keeps browbeating the rest of society with a phony ‘animal rights’ message. What about the rights of the thousands of dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens that die in PETA’s headquarters building?”

Martosko added: “Since killing pets is A-OK with PETA, why should anyone listen to their demands about eating meat, using lab rats for medical research, or taking children to the circus?” CCF obtained PETA’s “Animal Record” filings since 1998 from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Members of the public can see these documents at PetaKillsAnimals.com.

Okay. I’m dumbfounded. A friend sent me this last week, because apparently a “PETA Kills Animals” website is advertising on a few of the same blogs as we are.

Is nothing sacred?

Granted, with all the celebrity retards People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) engages to hide the ball, month after month, I assumed there was some great secret behind the group. Like an X-Files episode gone bad, or a secret back-room sex cult.

But PETA Kills Animals? Really

This just might be the biggest public hypocrisy story ever. You may as well tell me that Sean Penn is a raging capitalist, or that Alberto Gonzales carries an ACLU membership card.

I’m stunned.

Ordinarily, I would call “BS” on this whole thing. But they have legal documents. I did the math. It adds up to 17,400 dogs and cats.

Before any of you get on my case about pet overpopulation and the virtues of Bob Barker’s “spay/neuter” program, here’s my basic problem: PETA collects abo0ut $31 million every year. That’s around $2.6 million a month. Or $615,000 every week. With that kind of money, don’t you think they should be finding the odd stray kitten a home, instead of devoting so much of their income to hassling old ladies in fur coats? In 2006, PETA only adopted out 12 animals. The whole year.

A few observations.

(1) There’s no way those are forgeries. The first couple are printouts from a government website. (Click here for the 2006 report, then click here for the 2005 report, and click here for the 2004 report). They appear to be on the level.

(2) I looked both PETA and CCF up on the Guidestar website (a very cool resource, by the way). PETA has about 7 times the money of the other group. I’m guessing that PETA could afford 7-times-more-expensive lawyers. If the PETA Kills Animals website were in the least bit libelous, don’t you think PETA would have sued them (successfully) by now?

(3) Personally, I don’t care where good research information comes from. The right question to ask isn’t “what’s in is for them?” — but “is it accurate?”

(4) A few weeks ago I e-mailed CCF and asked if they would tell me where the documents and photos om the website came from. Here’s the (unedited) reply that arrived the next day.

Dear Oversneer:

The documents we used as a source for the information about PETA employees killing over 17,400 animals can be found at:

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/downloads/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf

These are copies of documents filed by PETA with the Virginia State Veterinarian. They are public records. It may be hard to believe, but we are not making this up.

The photographs of dead animals were scanned directly from court indictments in Winton, NC (at the Hertford County courthouse). These police evidence photos were attached to animal-cruelty indictments filed against two PETA employees. These are the photos of actual animals that PETA employees Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook admitted killing and discarding in a trash dumpster.

The pictures of the van and lethal-drug kit were taken by Mr. Cal Bryant, an editor at the Roanoke-Chowan News Herald, a newspaper in Ahoskie, North Carolina. He has graciously allowed us to share the photos with the public. In exchange, we made a substantial donation to the local animal shelter in his town — which, incidentally, is far more than PETA ever did for those animals.

Thanks for your interest. If you have further questions, feel free to e-mail me directly.

I’m also not buying the line that every one of the pets PETA takes in is too sick or pathetic to adopt out. My sister once adopted a pit bull that was near death, and a white cat that was completely lost as a stray. It can be done.

If PETA’s not interested in this, then ... WTF?