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Press Release | PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008 - 0 views

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  • the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008
  • Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it." - Ingrid Newkirk, President and Co-Founder of PETA
  • Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters.
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  • PETA killed 2,124 pets last year and placed only seven in adoptive homes.
  • the Center for Consumer Freedom petitioned Virginia’s State Veterinarian to reclassify PETA as a slaughterhouse.
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PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk - News Story - WPTZ Plattsburgh - 0 views

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shared by sirgabrial on 05 Oct 08 - Cached
  • PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk
  • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.
  • "PETA's request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow's milk in the food he serves," the statement says.
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  • PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.
  • "The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn't make sense," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "Everyone knows that 'the breast is best,' so Ben & Jerry's could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk."
  • "We applaud PETA's novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother's milk is best used for her child," said a spokesperson for Ben and Jerry's.
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PETA Kills Animals | PetaKillsAnimals.com - 0 views

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shared by sirgabrial on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Exclusive: PETA Killed More than 90% of the Animals in its Care in 2007
  • killed more than 90 percent of the adoptable animals in its care during 2007. 
  • Last year, PETA wrangled with the Virginia government for nine months before its 2006 records were finally made public.
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  • Virginia's public records law,
  • In comparison, the Virginia Beach SPCA, right down the road from PETA’s Norfolk headquarters, managed to adopt out almost 70% of the animals in its care last year. And it did it on a relative shoestring budget.
  • the group has put down over 19,200 dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens. While it's possible that some of these animals were too broken or sick to be rehabilitated, humane societies in Virginia managed to save an average of nearly 65 percent of their animals in 2007. PETA found adoptive homes for less than 1 percent.
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Growing meat without growing animals. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine - 0 views

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shared by sirgabrial on 07 May 08 - Cached
  • Tastes Like Chicken
  • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has just offered a $1 million prize to anyone who develops a commercially viable "in vitro chicken-meat product." The catch is that the product can't contain or entail the use of "animal-derived products, except for starter cells obtained in the initial development stages."
  • The idea is simple: Instead of growing a chicken embryo into a bird and cutting meat from it, you skip the bird part and grow the meat directly from the embryo.
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  • if you can grow a hunk of flesh for transplant, you can grow it for food.
  • Purists see it as a moral surrender. "It's our job to introduce the philosophy and hammer it home that animals are not ours to eat," a dissident PETA official tells the Times. Purists also point out that carnivores suffer more obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. Getting your meat from stem cells might not change that.
  • Pragmatists point to all the issues lab meat would resolve. No more cages. No more body-inflating drugs. No more slaughter. Less environmental harm. "We don't mind taking uncomfortable positions if it means that fewer animals suffer," Newkirk concludes.
  • product that has a taste and texture indistinguishable from real chicken flesh."
  • has to satisfy "a panel of 10 meat-eating individuals sourced from a professional focus group services provider."
  • "If God wanted us to be vegetarians, why did He make animals out of meat?"
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