The organization could not find a home for these animals, had to put them to sleep

Mar 21, 2013 07:44 GMT  ·  By

Following their reading about how PETA killed over 1,600 cats and dogs in the year 2012 alone, some people might feel the need to poke fun at the organization's anti-animal cruelty campaigns, which more often than not revolve around the idea that animals are our friends and must not in any way be harmed.

Information shared with the public by the Virginia Department for Agriculture and Consumer Services says that these animals were put to sleep at PETA's headquarters in Virginia.

The organization claims that the 1,647 cats and dogs it “humanely” euthanized were pretty much unadoptable, which was why they had to be killed.

Apparently, only 19 of these animals were lucky enough to find a new home and escape death following their being taken in by the organization.

Rest assured, it appears that PETA is fully aware of the fact that its putting these animals to sleep can and should be labeled as “evil.”

However, according to Daily Mail, it believes that the killings were no more and no less than a “necessary evil.”

Needless to say, the practice of killing animals for their meat and fur is plain “evil,” and by no means a necessity. Hence PETA's being able to still call themselves “animal rights activists.”

The same source quotes Justin Wilson, the current senior research analyst for the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF, for short), who commented with respect to the organization's ways of dealing with unwanted animals as follows:

“The animal rights group is talking out of both sides of its mouth – on one side preaching its animal liberation agenda, while on the other signing the death warrant of over 89 percent of pets in its care. It’s beyond hypocritical.”

“CCF's goal is to damage PETA by misrepresenting the situation and the number of unwanted and suffering animals PETA euthanizes because of injury, illness, age, aggression, and other problems, because their guardians requested it, or because no good homes exist for them,” a spokesperson for the organization replied to these accusations.

Just for the record, the CCF maintains that, since 1998 and up until present day, a total of 29,398 animals have been killed at PETA's headquarters in Virginia.