PETA

PETA, also known as Peta for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, have been known to go to stop animal cruelty in many cases, even going undercover in many cases, boasting the motto "Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment". Documents published online show that PETA has killed more than 95 percent of the pets in it's care in 2011. These documents were obtained from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and were published online by the Center of Consumer Freedom. The CCF is a non-profit organization that that runs campaigns targeting groups that antagonize food producers. These records show that since 1988, PETA has killed more than 27,000 at its headquarters in Norfolk, VA. Virginia's head of the agriculture department, Daniel Kovich, conducted an investigation of PETA's headquarters. Kovich determined that PETA kills 84 percent of the animals they receive within 24 hours. "[PETA's] primary purpose is not to find permanent adoptive homes for animals" Kovich said. CCF's executive director, Rich Berman has also established that PETA has a $37 million annual budget. A PETA representative, Jane Dollinger, did not dispute the high mortality rate, but mentioned that PETA only kills animals because of "injury, illness, age, aggression, or because no good homes exist for them", and said in an email to The Daily Caller website that "most of the animals we take in are society's rejects; aggressive, on death's door, or somehow unadoptable". In 2005, some animals that were described as "perfect" and "adorable" were killed in the back of a PETA owned vehicle by two PETA employees. They were arrested after police witnessed them tossing the bodies into a North Carolina dumpster.