About PETA

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is an extremist animal rights organisation based in the United States. According to PETA’s website the organisation has 1.8 million members and total revenue of $31,224,376 US.

PETA is against the use of animals for food, clothing, entertainment and legitimate medical research.

PETA’s mission statement states categorically that “…animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.” Consider the implications of this – no meat, no pets, nothing but synthetic clothes (most of which are petroleum based and far from environmentally friendly) and no medical research no matter how regulated or potentially life saving.

PETA's dark secret

Even though its mandate is to protect the rights of all animals, PETA spends less than one percent of its multi-million dollar budget actually helping animals. This begs the question: How much does PETA spend on advertising for homes for the animals they "rescue" - and subsequently kill?

In 2006 PETA killed over 97 percent of the animals it took in, finding adoptive homes for just 0.39 percent.

In 2005, police in North Carolina arrested two PETA employees on various criminal charges after they were caught dumping dead dogs and cats in a shopping centre garbage bin.

Investigators monitored the bin after discovering dead animals dumped there every Wednesday for four weeks. Upon apprehending the suspects, police allegedly found 18 dead dogs in the bin and 13 more in a van registered to PETA.

After a lengthy trial in the Hertford County Superior Court, the offenders were convicted of illegally disposing of the carcasses and given suspended gaol sentences together with a year of supervised probation and $4,000 in fines and restitution. The van used by the PETA employees in their illegal activities was confiscated by police.

These criminal activities, and PETA’s persistent readiness to use euthanasia, suggests that PETA promotes expenditure on the high profile celebrity-style status of the organisation and its employees above the wellbeing of the animals it claims to protect.

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