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Hypocracy... I had written about these troglodytes before: here - killing animals given to their no-kill shelter and here - purposefully mis-quoting the Dalai Lama. Now two other stories have cropped up. The first deals with killing animals again -- from FOX News:

PETA Workers Charged With Animal Cruelty
Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (search) have been charged with animal cruelty after dumping dead dogs and cats in a shopping center garbage bin, police said.

Investigators staked out the bin after discovering that dead animals had been dumped there every Wednesday for the past four weeks, Ahoskie police said in a prepared statement Thursday.

PETA has scheduled a news conference for Friday in Norfolk, Va., where the group is based.

Police found 18 dead animals in the bin and 13 more in a van registered to PETA. The animals were from animal shelters in Northampton and Bertie counties, police said.

WAVY has photos of these mokes: I present Adria Joy Hinkle and Andrew Benjamin Cook. The WAVY website also had this interesting set of numbers:

PETA has euthanized animals for years. In Virginia last year, the activist group euthanized 2,278 animals, sterilized 7,641 and found homes for 361.

Placing only 361 critters is piss-poor performance. The Friday news conference was covered by The Charlotte Observer. They use archaic registration -- use Bug Me Not for a password.

PETA leader calls acts hideous, but not cruel
Newkirk says dead animals dumped in trash bin didn't suffer

Dumping the bodies of dead dogs and cats in the garbage is wrong, but the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said Friday that animal cruelty charges against two employees won't stick.

Ingrid Newkirk, president of the animal rights group, called the dumping of animals "hideous."

But she told a news conference there was no indication of "pain or suffering" among the 31 animals that police in northeastern North Carolina found. Police in Ahoskie, in Hertford County, about 60 miles southwest of Norfolk, found 18 dogs and cats in a shopping center garbage bin and 13 more in a van registered to PETA.

The animals had received lethal injections, Newkirk said.

Some officials in Hertford County, however, said PETA had broken a promise to find homes for the animals.

The Virginia Pilot/Hampton Roads has some more info and talks about how the counties are reacting:

At least one county in North Carolina has cut its relationship with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals after two PETA workers were arrested Wednesday for allegedly dumping animal carcasses into a trash container behind a grocery in Ahoskie , N.C.

"As of today, we have temporarily suspended our agreement with PETA until the issues are resolved," Sue Gay, health director for Northampton County, said Friday evening.

And some more:

Police suspected that PETA workers were killing the dogs and cats they were picking up from shelters and clinics because carcasses wrapped in plastic bags were found in the bins every Wednesday for four straight weeks, according to Ahoskie police Detective Jeremy Roberts. A total of 80 dead animals were dumped, he said.

How stupid -- don't bother changing your Modus Operandi. Don't think that someone might be checking the contents of the dumpsters and reporting animal carcasses. Just come by every Wednesday and drop off 20 dead critters. Sheesh... They have more -- this is Susan Gay (the health director for Northampton County) mentioned a few paragraphs above:

"What I understood," she said, "was that they would pick up the animals from us and they would be assessed as to whether they could be adopted or not."

Many of the animals were strays and sick, she said, and probably not good candidates for adoption. But there was supposed to be an examination by PETA’s medical team.

PETA has veterinarians on staff to make sure the animals are healthy enough to be adopted, Gay said, "and if they are healthy enough, there would be an attempt to adopt it out."

Tonya Northcott , a veterinary technician at the Ahoskie Animal Hospital, said that among the dead found Wednesday were a mother cat and her two kittens picked up that day by PETA.

"There was nothing wrong with them," she said of the animals, noting that they had been dewormed and that she had been told there would be no problem finding homes for the cats.

"They’ll never get another one of them from us," she said.

The other PETA story starting to break is this one from The Chicago Tribune. Again, use Bug Me Not to get a registration username and password.

PETA sues to block transfer of 4 elephants from farm

The plan to send four elephants from a controversial farm in McHenry County to a foundation in Oklahoma that is affiliated with a circus has sparked a federal lawsuit to stop the transfer.

Unable to reach an agreement that would send all 12 of Hawthorn Corp.'s remaining elephants to a Tennessee sanctuary, the U.S. Department of Agriculture last month approved the transfer of four of them from the circus-training facility near Richmond to the Endangered Ark Foundation in Hugo, Okla.

That angered People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals because the foundation is run by the same family that manages the Carson & Barnes Circus. PETA calls all circuses "three rings of abuse."

Jen's comment: "So it's better to leave the critters where they'll get substandard care than to have them cared for properly but maybe get trained to do some things." My thoughts -- I am not an authority on Circuses and there are probably some bad Circuses out there but I am seeing a mental pattern in PETA similar to the mental pattern environmental groups have towards logging. All Bad. Must Stop. Living here in the middle of logging country reveals the truth that loggers are the most environmentally conscious people out there. They want the trees to grow so that their next generation can come back and harvest them. Practices that damage the soil or creates environmental problems are simply not done. If a procedure is discovered to cause damage, it is changed. Jen and I have both taken tours through managed forests and they are gorgeous and healthy. As for the Elephants, they may be asked to do tricks but they are very social animals and I bet that these critters are acclimated to large groups of people and would love to perform. To read more about this group of loving individuals (here is a photo of their founder Ingrid Newkirk -- what a harpy) check out this entry at the Activist Cash website. Be sure to check the links: SOURCE LIBRARY AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Click here to learn what motivates PETA.
  
• Click here to read about PETA's "black eyes."
  
• Click here to find out where PETA's millions come from.
  
• Click here for audio and video of PETA officers and other animal rights extremists.
  
• Click here to discover how PETA is connected to other activist groups.
  
• Click here to see PETA's cash donation to the terrorist Earth Liberation Front.
  
• Click here to see $70,000 in PETA grants to a convicted animal-rights arsonist.
  
• Click here to see the money trail between PETA and its phony "physicians committee" front group.
  
• Click here to learn about PETA's hypocritical practice of killing thousands of animals.

A bunch of hypocrites in my book -- they are in it for the money... Posted by DaveH at June 18, 2005 10:38 PM