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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is actively shopping for a drone that would "stalk hunters," the organization said Monday. [READ: Drones to Monitor Endangered Animals in Africa] The group says it will "soon have some impressive new weapons at its disposal to combat those who gun down deer and doves" and that it is "shopping for one or more drone aircraft with which to monitor those who are out in the woods with death on their minds." The group says it will not weaponize the drones, but will use them to film potentially illegal hunting activity and turn...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is actively shopping for a drone that would "stalk hunters," the organization said Monday. The group says it will "soon have some impressive new weapons at its disposal to combat those who gun down deer and doves" and that it is "shopping for one or more drone aircraft with which to monitor those who are out in the woods with death on their minds." The group says it will not weaponize the drones, but will use them to film potentially illegal hunting activity and turn it over to law enforcement. "The talk is...

Animal rights charity PETA killed almost 90 per cent of dogs and cats placed in the care of the shelter at its Virginia headquarters last year, it has been revealed today. The charity, well-known for attention grabbing publicity campaigns such as the 'I'd rather go naked' anti-fur campaign, euthanized 1,647 cats and dogs last year and only placed 19 in new homes according to the data submitted to the Virginia Department for Agriculture and Consumer Services. PETA told Mail Online that the animals they take in at the center are 'unadoptable', however 89.4 per cent of pets is much higher...

Documents: PETA kills more than 95 percent of pets in its care By Alexandra Myers - The Daily Caller 11:29 PM 02/24/2012 ADVERTISEMENT Documents published online this month show that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an organization known for its uncompromising animal-rights positions, killed more than 95 percent of the pets in its care in 2011. The documents, obtained from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, were published online by the Center for Consumer Freedom, a non-profit organization that runs online campaigns targeting groups that antagonize food producers. Fifteen years’ worth of similar records show that...

PETA Proposes Ad for Memphis Garbage TrucksPosted by Bianca Phillips on Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:41 PM Last week, Memphis was named the fourth dirtiest city in the country by Travel+Leisure Magazine, but staffers at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) think they have the solution. The animal rights organization will offer to pay the city's sanitation department for advertising space on garbage trucks. The ads would feature a lady wearing a lettuce leaf bikini with the message, "Meat Trashes the Planet. Go Vegan. Free Starter Recipes: PETA.org." They may have a point. Factory farming is one...

PETA is a non-profit organziation and the funds it uses are from donations, however a number of recent news stories indicated the donations may not be going to where they were intended. Like most of you, I thought PETA was mostly about lobbying and protesting for animal rights. I was surprised to know they run animal shelters that they claim are for finding dogs and cats good homes. I was even more suprised to find out that 95% of pets in their care...were killed. So where are all those many millions in donations going, executive salaries? One thing is for...

Texas Legislation Would Restore Constitution For Animal Owners Please Support House Bill 1046 To Fight Against Robbery Of Rights For Seizures, Forced Euthanasia by JOHN YATES American Sporting Dog Alliance http://www.americansportingdogalliance.org asda@conline.net This article is archived at: http://eaglerock814.proboards107.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=31 AUSTIN, TX – In Texas, a not guilty verdict can be a dog owner’s worst nightmare. Under current law, even if a dog owner conclusively proves her or his innocence of animal cruelty charges in a court of law and is fully exonerated, it would be too late to save his or her dogs from confiscation, forced adoption, sterilization and death. The...

Records obtained from the Virginia state government show an interesting statistic regarding animals in PETA's Virginia HQ shelter. The group, known for it's hot ads and hotter rhetoric against carnivires, killed more than 90% of its guests in 2007. When you pay attention to the news it becomes increasingly difficult to be surprised at any level of hypocrisy displayed by leftists. Wealthy socialists who are anxious to spread everyone else's wealth. Environmentalists who take private jets. Silver-spoon anarchists rioting at Starbucks. But this one might take the cake...

Ken Bartelt, principal of Northwestern Middle School in the small town of Poplar, Wisconsin, refuses to bow under PETA pressure for a bulletin board in his school that shows photos of students with the game they have harvested. PETA wrote to Bartelt asking him to remove the bulletin board because it encourages students to have a dangerous mindset of violence. Sangeeta Kumar, who wrote the PETA letter to Bartelt, said hunting and animal abuse leads to abuse of human beings. Bartelt, however, isn't knuckling under to PETA. He was quoted as saying, "Half of our school board are hunters." He...

The Michael Vick dogfighting scandal is morphing into a broader NFL dogfighting scandal, as other NFL players also appear to be involved in this very weird pastime. But as animal-rights groups get more aggressive in their accusations and demands, the whole scene is getting stranger. And the closer you look, the more you see the deep conflicts in core values that fracture our society. among PETA's prohibitions, is the use of animal skins. The ball, as in football, is an inflated leather object endearingly called the "pigskin." Why does PETA oppose existing NFL conduct policy, and not football itself? J.C....

Snatched Hunting Dog May Have Been Slated For Death At PETA's Norfolk Headquarters. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) employee Andrea Florence Benoit will be arraigned today in Southampton County (VA) Circuit Court on a felony charge of stealing a local Animal Control officer's hunting dog. The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom, which tracks PETA's program of killing adoptable dogs and cats at PETAkillsAnimals.com, is calling on the animal rights group to stop playing God with other people's pets. Benoit was indicted by a Grand Jury on July 16. Benoit was arrested in October 2006, shortly after allegedly...

Steve Irwin Ripped by PETA: Crocodile Hunter 'Cheap Reality Star' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Josh Hart Sep 11, 2006 Steve Irwin has barely been laid to rest but the critics from his enemies already seem to be reveling in the fact that he was killed by an animal. Aussie feminist Germaine Greer got the ball rolling by saying that animals took their revenge on Irwin. Steve Irwin Ripped by PETA: Crocodile Hunter 'Cheap Reality Star' "The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin, but probably not before a hole generation of kids in shorts seven sizes too small has learned...

A dead raccoon was found in the back of a truck owned by the North Port Animal Control Department in Florida. No one knows how it got there. Flies and vultures were seen buzzing the truck, but it wasn't until a vulture landed on it that an officer bothered to investigate. When she did, she discovered the rotting raccoon, which police said had been dead for a week. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the officer assigned to the truck, Jessica Miller, charged with animal cruelty, and subjected to psychological evaluation and counseling. "PETA is asking that if...

The animal rights activist group PETA seems to have its own "ethical" problem -- urging the sacrifice of human life rather than that of laboratory animals for medical research. Amid this week's hullabaloo over embryonic stem cell (ESC) research, which culminated in President Bush's veto of a bill overriding his limitations on federal funding of such research, curiosity got the better of me and I wondered what PETA's position, if any, might be regarding the controversy. I assumed that PETA most likely opposed ESC research since it necessarily involves the sacrifice of animal lives as well as human embryos. Au...