RE: This makes me ill...

Melody, I can't even comment. This is truly appalling and vile.

Andrea H
Beaufort, SC 


> [Original Message]
> From: Melody <mhobertm@excite.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 7/23/2005 11:29:15 AM
> Subject: [CHAT] This makes me ill...
>
> I wondered how many of our animal lovers on this list had seen this 
article.  It about made me  ill when I read it.   
>
> Melody
>
>
>
> "ETHICAL" DEFINED: After more than 100 dead dogs were dumped in a trash
> dumpster over four weeks, police in Ahoskie, N.C., kept an eye on the
> trash receptacle behind a supermarket. Sure enough, a van drove up and
>
> officers watched the occupants throw in heavy plastic bags. They
> detained the two people in the van and found 18 dead dogs in plastic
> bags in the dumpster, including puppies; 13 more dead dogs were still in
> the van. Police say the van is registered to the headquarters of People
> for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and the two occupants,
>
> Andrew B. Cook, 24, and Adria Joy Hinkle, 27, identified themselves as
> PETA employees. An autopsy performed on one of the dogs found it was
> healthy before it was killed. Police say PETA has been picking up the
> animals -- alive -- from North Carolina animal shelters, promising to
>
> find them good homes. Cook and Hinkle have been charged with 62 felony
> counts of animal cruelty. In response to the arrests PETA President
> Ingrid Newkirk said it's against the group's policy for employees to
> dump animals in the trash, but "that for some animals in North
>
> Carolina, there is no kinder option than euthanasia." (Roanoke-Chowan
News-Herald)
>
>
> THE MORE I LEARN ABOUT PETA, the less I think of them. The story of them
> killing animals isn't even unusual. According to PETA's own filings, in
> 2004 PETA *killed* 86.3 percent of the animals entrusted to its care --
>
> a number that's rising, not falling. Meanwhile, the SPCA in PETA's home
> town (Norfolk, Va.) was able to find loving homes for 73 percent of the
> animals put in its care. A shortage of funds? Nope: last year PETA took
>
> in $29 million in tax-exempt donations. It simply has other priorities
> for the funds, like funding terrorism (yes, really). But don't take my
> word for it: I got my figures from
>
>     http://www.PETAkillsAnimals.com
>
> --and they have copies of PETA's state and federal filings to back it
> up.
>
> The bottom line: if you donate money to PETA because you think they care
> for and about animals, you need to think some more. PETA literally yells
> and screams about how others "kill animals" but THIS is how they
>
> operate? Pathetic. And you know what I wonder? PETA's *official* count
> of animals they kill is 86.3 percent. But if they're going around
> picking up animals, killing them while they drive around and not even
> giving them a CHANCE
>
> to be adopted, and then destroying the evidence by dumping the bodies in
> the trash, are THOSE deaths being reported? My guess: no. While 86.3
> percent is awful, the actual number is probably much, MUCH higher. How
>
> DARE they lecture ANYONE about the "ethical" treatment of animals!
> (I was *inundated* with requests by Premium subscribers for a way to
> spread around the story and comments above. They're thus of course now
> posted at
>
>     http://www.thisistrue.com/peta.html
>
> -- along with special
>
> permission and formatting for bloggers to use. Of course, as
> thecopyright notice says, you can forward this issue in its entirety,
> too,by e-mail to anyone you think would find it of interest.)
>
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