$34 Million Later, PETA Saves Eight Animals?
Found on Care 2 on Saturday, 20 March 2010
"In 2009, PETA euthanized 2,301 dogs and cats -- 97 percent of those brought in -- and adopted only eight, according to Virginia state figures. And the rate of these killings has been increasing."
"It's whoring itself out for media coverage," David Martosko, director of research at the Center for Consumer Freedom, said of PETA. "They'll do the ridiculous stuff, but they won't put an ad in the Norfolk press saying, 'We have puppies and kittens, come adopt one.'"
Daphna Nachminovitch from PETA also said that, although animal shelters are rather cheap to build and maintain, the animals in there will suffer if too many are inside. While this may very well be true, it's a pretty twisted way of thinking. Instead of increasing the capacity they just put the animals down. Perhaps PETA should run prisons too...