People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PETA) euthanized almost 90 percent of the animals sheltered at the
group's headquarters in Norfolk ,
Va.
Critics are charging PETA — renowned for
its aggressive anti-cruelty campaigns — with hypocrisy after the group's
euthanasia statistics were posted on the website of theVirginia
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
PETA, however, insists the allegations are
financially motivated by an industry group whose "goal is to damage PETA
by misrepresenting the situation," said Jane Dollinger, spokeswoman for
PETA, in a statement.
According to the published records, PETA
euthanized 1,675 of the 1,877 animals in its care in 2012, including 602 dogs
and 1,045 cats.
"It seems PETA is more dedicated to
publicity stunts than to keeping the animals in its own care alive,"
Justin Wilson of the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) told the Daily
Mail.
"It's the height of hypocrisy for
PETA to demonstrate for the 'rights' of rats and pigs, while killing tens of
thousands of pets. It's time that the Commonwealth
of Virginia finally reclassifies
PETA's pet shelter for what it is — a slaughterhouse," Wilson
The CCF is a nonprofit organization
"devoted to promoting personal responsibility and protecting consumer
choices" from "animal-rights misanthropes and meddling
bureaucrats," according to its website.
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