When anyone — even a sports blogger — thinks Michael Vick’s house would be a safer place for a pooch than yours, chances are good that you have a serious problem. Especially if you’re an animal rights group.
Here’s New York Times NFL blogger Tony Monkovic a guest writer subbing for New York Times NFL blogger Tony Monkovic today:
[T]he right to life does not seem to be an animal right that they put a lot of stock in. PETA as an organization euthanizes a higher percentage of the animals entrusted to them than just about any other animal “rescue” organization. As high as 90 percent in some years. Some breeds go higher than that …
If I delivered my pit bull to [PETA president Ingrid] Newkirk, I would at least know his fate — he’d be headed out the back door in a plastic bag by the time I drove back home. I couldn’t be completely sure about Vick, but I think I’d have to take my chances with him.
Ouch.
But you know what? He’s right. PETA keeps on killing animals. In fact, the PetaKillsAnimals.com people just published PETA’s report on what happened to all the furry animals it received in 2008. (How they get this stuff, I have no idea.) And it’s not pretty.
Here’s a chart of all the little Marleys that PETA has offed. (Shamelessly stolen from here.)
Now, I’m not trying to influence your Deceiver Madness “Snark Sixteen” vote. Really.But this is why PETA is a #1 seed in the “Activists” bracket. They’re shaming me into saving barnyard animals with one hand, and pushing the lethal-injection plunger with the other. Into a puppy. A cute one.
I’m genuinely stumped for analogies here. And I write a blog about hypocrisy. My brain wants to say “This would be just like if …” — and then I come up empty.
What’s the appropriate “for instance”? Here’s a list off the top of my head. Only the first one is true — as far as I’ve heard.
- PETA killed 95 percent of its “rescue” animals in 2008.
- Al Gore was seen in Kuwait yesterday, lighting oil wells on fire with a flaming cheeseburger.
- On his way to prison, Bernie Madoff stopped at a New York City credit union to help an old lady with her Christmas club account.
- Barney Frank has just sponsored a bill to reinstate sodomy laws in the Deep South.
- On Rush Limbaugh’s show today, he admitted having a secret love affair with Hillary Clinton thatgoes all the way back to the Arkansas years.
- Wody Harrelson just contributed $1 million to a UCLA researcher who’s working on ways to sterilize marijuana plants.
- UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown just eliminated all British government support for the blind.
Can you add a better one?
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What?…Look at that cute pupp-.. How could, I mean oh poor baby… *sniff*
What? I got something in my eyes. Both of them at the same time. It happens you know.
SHUT UP! I’M ALL MAN!!
All I can think of is the song “See My Vest”, as jollily sung by Mr. Burns. For those not in the know, I’ve attached a link. But be forwarned; the song is catchy as all heck!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=32409198
To bad Peta doesn’t take the human rescues. We could start with those who made the “sweet sixteen”.
PETA disgusts me. We should go light em on fire!
I am actually not a big animal lover, although I would punch my grandmother in the head if I caught her being cruel to one. But even I find PETA beneath contempt. They’re loathsome and repugnant, on every level and in every way.
It’s unfair! You need to give equal time to the other contenders in that category.
Looking at the numbers it’s obvious they are not even trying to place animals any more. Amazing
“This would be just like if …”
China gave out awards for the best anti-communist speech
Iran donated $10 million to the IDFWO
(IDF Widows and Orphans Organization for Israel’s killed soldiers)http://www.idfwo.org/About_us.htm
Lindsay Lohan started doing porn…um ok maybe not that one
I could not read anymore. That is just horrible. My yellow lab and black lab are my babies and anyone who attempted to hurt them would die a slow and painful death. I have connections.
Here is another one “for instance”
Obama actually brought hope and change to our nation.
I sympathize with your similie problems… it does seem almost impossible.
However, you do realize that PeTA has just kindly released these animals from their earthly prison, right?? Because it’s not like they could just release them on the streets. That would be cruel… like Deceiver. Tsk tsk.
Really – the Center for Consumer Freedom is your source? A site financed by cigarette makers and slaughterhouse owners and fast food restaurants – nice ethics there! You make your living questioning hypocrisy and yet you find none at an organization like CCF?
Perhaps you should spend a day on the road with the people at PETA who find dogs that are neglected, continually abused, starving, near death, frozen to the ground, hair matted so badly they literally scream in pain if they are touched. Then ask yourself how you would deal with the situation if you had to decide the next step in the life of an animal so badly treated that you can barely make out what species it is.
Quit your bitching, come out from behind the keyboard and spend some time in the real world. Ask to spend a day at PETA and then ask to spend a day at CCF, then make your judgments – I dare you.
Just to clarify one thing: it’s not Toni Monkovic who wrote the bit about picking Vick over Newkirk, it’s one of her commenters. And he, “Rich in Atlanta,” is a Vick apologist. While he’s right that a pit bull has slightly better survival odds with a dogfighter than with PETA, his claim that torturing animals is “just machismo” makes me want to punch him in the face.
Oh, I get it. PETA is really just a bus full of angels of mercy. See, guys? We were all wrong. I feel so bad now.
So wait, these starving dogs… are we supposed to hold them captive and feed them or not???
It’d be just like if PETA supported the dude who allegedly tossed a puppy off a cliff!
…They didn’t support him, right?
“Perhaps you should spend a day on the road with the people at PETA who find dogs that are neglected, continually abused, starving, near death, frozen to the ground, hair matted so badly they literally scream in pain if they are touched.”
So ALL of the dogs they kill are sick? Nope. Many of the people who originally filed suits against PETA were families who handed their animals over before a move to a non-animal-friendly house or apartment. They figured, “hey, this is PETA! If we give the animal to a shelter they might put it down, but PETA LOVES animals!” Then PETA put their pet to sleep.
By the way, how exactly can you question what PETAKILLSANIMALS.com puts on their site? It’s not like it’s propaganda, it’s the damn court documents! Most of the info about PETA’s shelters and kill numbers were provided by PETA themselves to the court, or are public record as tax returns. So if someone is lying, as you’re accusing, then it would be PETA falsifying their own numbers to make themselves look bad – doesn’t make much sense does it?
Face it numbnuts, they got caught red handed and their own documents prove it.
I can’t even say anything snarky or clever to this. I love animals, I adore dogs, I have known great pit bulls including one that would jump off the ground and into your arms when called, and reading stats like this just kills me. People not giving these animals a chance breaks my heart. An organization that claims to love animals and then just tosses them in the trash because they think they are too badly abused to ever be rehabilitated… it’s too much. I know some animals really don’t have a chance, they are so badly damaged or in so much pain that to keep them alive would be cruel but I damn sure doubt that is the case for 95% of these animals.
Hey Animal Lover, if the information is true, what difference does it make who the source was?
Or are you saying the information by peta kills animals provided is false? (Sorry hit submit too soon.)
@”Animal Lover” — The question isn’t the absolute number that PETA puts down, but rather, the percentage which is so far out of wack vs other rescue organizations.
Some animals may be so far gone that any other degree of rescue isn’t possible, true enough, but this simply isn’t the case in the majority of cases.
What really scares me is this: I have personally found homes for more animals in need then PETA did in 2008. I’m not an animal rescuer, nor do I work with animals professionally, this is entirely finding homes for animals in need when one crosses my path.
So Animal Lover, you’re saying you’d kill them too? Hm.
Interesting argument.
It’s notable that she (I’m assuming it’s a “she”) didn’t choose the screen name “People Lover.”
@Simon: Most of the more passionate animal lovers I’ve ever met were also profoundly misanthropic. I mean, I’M profoundly misanthropic most of the time, but I don’t claim to be an animal lover.
“The question isn’t the absolute number that PETA puts down, but rather, the percentage which is so far out of wack vs other rescue organizations.”
Yep. Some of us have 100% adoption records, despite our extremely thin budgets.
Plus, breed rescue groups like the one I’m affiliated with help to increase the live stats for local ASPCA and humane groups, because they transfer animals to us rather than put them down.
PeTA’s transfer rates are almost as bad as their kill rates, given the wide availability of volunteer breed groups like mine. We gladly accept any dog that remotely resembles our target breed. Hell, PeTA isn’t even availing themselves of last resort city-run shelters.
There is absolutely no reason for a 95% kill rate. NO reason.
And notice that Peta’s kill rate gradually increases each year despite fluctuations of intake level. That’s a direct reflection of policy. In my experience, the ratio of abused/neglected animals to loved but surrendered animals stays fairly constant from year to year.
While I often either disagree with the authors of this site or think that you’re just being way too nitpicky, I have to say, I am truly, non-sarcastically grateful for your constant revelations regarding PETA. I’ve known for a while, on some level, that they weren’t the height of integrity, but since I found you guys – woah.
When I was but a young, rather emo lass, I was all up in arms about animal testing. OMG TEH BUNNIES! (Except “teh” wasn’t really in use yet, but you get what I mean.) I remember talking about it once at a family dinner, and my dad pointing out that most of the hardcore anti-animal-testing activists (i.e., PETA) could apparently care less about travesties being committed against, y’know, humans. (Actually, I think the example he used was abortion – he’s very Catholic – but the comparison works with pretty much any less-controversial humanitarian/human rights issue.) That was the beginning of the end for me and PETA. I mean, I still care about animals and how they’re treated, but I realized that some people (i.e., PETA) really don’t have their priorities straight.
BTW, when I told my dad a few weeks ago about this blog I’d just started reading that “calls out famous people on their hypocrisies – you know, celebrities, politicians, that kind of thing,” he just replied, “That’s what we call a target-rich demographic.” (He himself is pretty good at not being a hypocrite, though I’m sure that will shock some people in conjunction with the Catholic-ness.)
I have a feeling the CCF people kill fewer animals for their lunches than the PETA employees kill during the work day.
I knew that PETA killed animals given to them, but I didn’t know that the numbers and proportions were so high. You can’t tell me that 95% of animals given to them are in such bad shape that euthanization was the only humane option. For heaven’s sake, there is a prison in Idaho that takes “mean” dogs (as in so mean they can’t be adopted out) and uses them as prison sentries. An organization full of animal “lovers” can’t come up with a creative solution like that? Oh wait, that makes the animals work, that’s bad. Much better to just kill them. Why not create a dog sanctuary?
Really, a lot of these so-called animal rights organizations only approve of herbivores, and won’t support any omnivorous or carnivorous animals. The zoo that I volunteer at used to get food donations at Christmas for the animals from a PETA type group (I am not sure if it was actually PETA in this case). Strangely enough, there was only food for the herbivores. Apparently lions and other secondary consumers are on the evil list along with humans.
By the way, is there any way of knowing how much money PETA gives to their brain-dead, phony vegetarian spokespeople? Or to the defense funds of tofu-pie-throwers? Granted, most of their celebs are C- and D-listers and probably wouldn’t command too high a price, but still, I’d wager anything that all the money they spend could keep rescue animals alive for years.
PETA kills their rescue animals because they would rather spend their money on slick ads. Their whole purpose is to be “shocking” and “edgy” and rake in money from suckers and celebrities so they can…produce more ads.
They have killed healthy, adoptable animals. As for animals that have been neglected and abused, organizations that genuinely care will try their hardest to nurse these animals back to health so they can be placed in a loving home.
Deceiver, please keep exposing the truth about PETA. Their credibility has been diminishing the past few years because sites like yours and PETA Kills Animals have exposed them for the phonies and extremists they are. However, there are still too many gullible people and attention whoring celebrities keeping them afloat.
This simple broad could easily beat Michael Vick to the title “Dog Owner of the Year”:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0318091dog1.html
This simple broad could easily beat Michael Vick to the title “Dog Owner of the Year”:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0318091dog1.html
Sorry, forgot to add great post! Can’t wait to see your next post!
I think Animal Lover doesn’t realize that petakillsanimals.com is pulling information from public record, and not a propaganda machine. However, when you support a group like PETA, you probably assume that everyone functions exactly as PETA does, which is sad, really.
I have petakillsanimals bookmarked and I read it every time they update even though it usually tends to piss me off.
PETA is the Vegan Al-Qaeda.
PETA feels they are rescuing animals by killing them. They would rather no one owns any kind of animals. Pet or farm animal. They beleive they are doing us and the animals a service. Ingrid Newkirk and her minions are twisted
OH, EWW. Nati, that was horrible, horrible, horrible. What a freak.
Ingrid Newkirk was seen cutting the Christmas Ham…
lol, sorry, Beige…I was pretty freaked out myself when I saw that. Almost as freaked out as I was when I saw comment no.30 in this thread. I have no idea where it came from. I didn’t post it, I only posted once this time. Hmmm…a mystery.
“This would be just like if …”
-Barack Obama admitted he doesn’t have a Hawaiian birth certificate;
-The NRA said “Yeah – the Second Amendment doesn’t apply to individual citizens”;
-Members of Congress decided to be fiscally responsible;
-Franklin Raines & Jimmy Johnson were to get the same treatment as Ken Lay and Dennis Kozlowski, instead of being Valued Administration Advisors. . .
Who’s got more to add?
PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008
Hypocritical Animal Rights Group’s 2008 Disclosures Bring Pet Death Toll To 21,339
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/258