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Group Points Finger At PETA For Killing Animals





A People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) publicity stunt was crashed this week by a band of protestors who want to expose the group for its involvement in the destruction of thousands of animals.

On Nov. 9, PETA activists created a media spectacle in front of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to protest poultry consumption and advocate a vegetarian lifestyle. Minutes into the demonstration, advocates from the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), an organization that works to protect consumer choices, kicked off a counter-protest to expose the animal rights group’s involvement in the killing of an estimated 12,000 animals.

The PETA demonstrators lay in coffins and paraded in chicken and turkey costumes with signs reading, “Bird Flu Kills: Go Vegetarian.” The CCF protestors arrived and lined up in the middle of the PETA protest with signs reading “PETA Kills Animals.”

They mimicked PETA’s protest, setting up their own coffin with a protestor dressed as a dog and another pretending to inject it with a giant ooze-filled syringe. Literature was handed out that outlined the June arrest of two PETA employees for allegedly dumping dead puppies and other animals in a dumpster.

The pair of PETA staffers face felony animal cruelty charges in North Carolina in November.

David Martosko, CCF director of research, said his group copied the animal rightists’ tactic of using coffins “to tell the public that PETA ought to use those coffins to give proper burial to the thousands of animals they’ve actually killed.”

Police eventually separated the two groups of protestors. The CCF display shifted a few yards away.

Records show that the Virginia-based PETA has killed more than 10,000 dogs and cats since 1998. The CCF reports that in 2003, PETA euthanized over 85 percent of the animals it took in, finding homes for only 14 percent. By comparison, the Norfolk SPCA found adoptive homes for 73 percent of its animals and the Virginia Beach SPCA placed 66 percent of its animals.
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