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PETA, Organisation Behind Jallikattu Ban, Responsible For Deaths Of 34,000 Animals Since 1998
Indian students calling for a ban on PETA at Marina Beach in Chennai. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an organisation which claims that “animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on or use for entertainment” and claims to work for their “welfare and rehabilitation”, was reportedly responsible for the death of around 2,000 domestic animals in it’s care in 2011.
A 2012 report by a non-profit organisation has revealed that PETA has “killed” 34,000 animals at its headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia since 1998.
An investigation by Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services revealed in 2010 that the organisation lacks the infrastructure to house the number of animals it claims to have “rescued” at any given time. Among other things, the investigating agency found that around 99.3 per cent of the 2,317 dogs and cats brought to PETA’s shelter in the last six years (ending 2010) were euthanised (killed).
In a controversial interview given to Newsweek in 2011, the organisation said that it would rather give animals a “painless” death than have them “tortured, starved, or sold for research”. In 2012, Jane Dollinger, PETA’s media officer, had informed The Daily Caller that many animals under the organisation’s care died because of ‘injury, illness, age, aggression” or because “no good homes exist for them.”
Contradicting this, a report prepared by Centre for Consumer Freedom (CCF), which also runs the website petakillsanimals.com, said that “laziness, and not a lack of funding or volunteers, is to blame for the death rate”. According to the report, PETA employees make little to no effort to find homes for the animals in it’s care despite its $37.4 million budget. The report is available here.
According to CCF, PETA hasn’t slowed down its slaughterhouse operation. The organisation, a CCF executive said back in 2012, is “more concerned with funding its media and advertising antics than finding suitable homes for these dogs and cats”.
According to The Daily Caller, two employees of the organization were arrested in the United States in the year 2005 after police caught them throwing dead bodies of animals into a North Carolina dumpster after killing them in the back of a PETA-owned van.
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