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PETA's
controversial campaigns for animal rights dominate headlines—but behind
the scenes, the picture is quite different, according to newly released
documents. Last year, the organization killed more than 95% of the pets
in its charge at its Norfolk, Va., headquarters, the Daily Caller
reports. Documents released by the state's agriculture department show
that the group placed 24 animals in 2011—and killed 1,911.
"It
appears PETA is more concerned with funding its media and advertising
antics than finding suitable homes for these dogs and cats,” says the
head of the Center for Consumer Freedom, which posted the documents
online. PETA lacks "sufficient animal enclosures" to house the number of
animals it reportedly takes in, says an investigator, who adds that the
group kills 84% of the animals it receives within 24 hours. A rep for
the group didn't contest the figures, but told the Daily Caller that it
only kills animals due to “injury, illness, age, aggression, or because
no good homes exist for them. Most of the animals we take in are
society’s rejects; aggressive, on death’s door, or somehow unadoptable,"
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