Does Peta kill animals?
‘Absolutely,’ says Newkirk by Gina Spadafori PETA kills animals by the thousands, and that fact is indisputable. the official explanation from the group is that those killings are acts of mercy, but no-kill advocate Nathan Winograd, the author of “Redemption:the Myth of Pet Overpopulation and the No Kill Revolution in America” and a former prosecuting attorney, calls that a lie. Yesterday he promised to follow up on the by-the-numbers look at PETA’s 2008 kill statistics. from today’s post on the no-kill advocate’s blog: PETA has argued that all of the animals it kills are “unadoptable.” In fact, PETA’s attorney stated that in his letter threatening a defamation lawsuit if I did not back down. But this claim is a lie. It is a lie because the numbers historically come from the State of Virginia’s reporting form which only asks for data for animals taken into custody “for the purpose of adoption.” It is a lie because PETA refuses to provide its criteria for making that determination. It i
