Posted on 06/18/2005 7:26:53 AM PDT by moneyrunner
PETA is a national spectacle with its HQ in our fair city, Norfolk, Virginia. It is widely known for terrifying children who go to KFC or McDonalds. It is continually in court harassing the circus. Its primary methods of operation are to commit outrages against the American people for the purpose of collecting donations for its executive staff.
One of it’s lesser-know tasks is collecting pets from animal shelters and killing them. Why shelters allow PETA to do this is the subject for another day. However, they recently expanded their “services” to North Carolina. And here, according the Virginian Pilot, is what happened.
At least one county in North Carolina has cut its relationship with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals after two PETA workers were arrested Wednesday for allegedly dumping animal carcasses into a trash container behind a grocery in Ahoskie , N.C.
“As of today, we have temporarily suspended our agreement with PETA until the issues are resolved,” Sue Gay, health director for Northampton County, said Friday evening. In a news conference at PETA’s Norfolk headquarters Friday, President Ingrid Newkirk said the dumping was “hideous, it’s wrong, and it never should have happened.” Police suspected that PETA workers were killing the dogs and cats they were picking up from shelters and clinics because carcasses wrapped in plastic bags were found in the bins every Wednesday for four straight weeks, according to Ahoskie police Detective Jeremy Roberts. A total of 80 dead animals were dumped, he said.
Officers staked out the garbage bins, which were at a Piggly Wiggly supermarket. They found 18 dead dogs in the container and 13 other animal carcasses in the van, which was registered to PETA, and arrested the two workers.
(Excerpt) Read more at home.hamptonroads.com ...
SHRIEK!!!! Defends euthanizing animals????
Why...why...that's... treating animals no better than..than...unborn humans! (sarcasm)
Other posts about this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1425373/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424987/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424795/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424738/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424570/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1424427/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1423274/posts
And another post about PETA:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1423027/posts
NC PETA pingers :)
This contradictory behavior is not without precedent. Planned Parenthood used to be in the planned parenthood business, now it's in the abortion business. PP makes big bucks and has political power. One day, PETA will operate slaughterhouses for big bucks and political power. It's a natural progression.
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