A little over a week ago, two PETA employees in North Carolina escaped conviction in a 50 count charge for animal cruelty. You can read the charges in this file.
Adrian Hinkle and Andrew Cook were originally accused of dumping animals they had killed by injection of chemicals. The number of puppies and dogs may have numbered as many as 122 based on what was found in a grocery store dumpster.
Back in 2005 in N.C., Hinkle and Cook,PETA employees collected animals from rescue shelters promising to find good homes for the adoptable animals. Instead, they proceeded to kill them by injection from chemicals later found stored in their van.
There is also a case where these two PETA employees picked up a healthy mother cat and her two kittens from a veterinarian by promising the doctor they were going to find them good homes. Instead, the cat and kittens were among found the dead animals.
The good thing that comes from this case is that it has forced PETA to admit that it does in fact kill animals as a matter of mercy.
Marc Folco of SouthCoast Today.com reports this from Jim Shepherd:
This winter, PETA also refused a request to aid in the airlifting of hay bales to cattle, elk and mule deer that had been trapped in a series of freak snowstorms in the Colorado Rockies, leaving them unable to reach food.
PETA kills thousands of animals every year, but is opposed to hunting, fishing and eating meat. They purchased walk-in freezers for their Virginia headquarters to store animal carcasses and paid thousands of dollars to an animal cremation service to dispose of them later.
PETA kills thousands of animals every year, but is opposed to hunting, fishing and eating meat. They purchased walk-in freezers for their Virginia headquarters to store animal carcasses and paid thousands of dollars to an animal cremation service to dispose of them later. What were Hinkle and Cook convicted of? "Littering"! Apparently their attorney said the animals had no
intrinsic value and that the accused were not purposefully cruel. Imagine PETA taking this defense of the animals having no dollar value.
This is the same group that opposes "fishing". PETA has been exposed for their hypocrisy.
