Consumer Freedom isn't the only source there.
It was pretty well-publicised a couple of years ago when PeTA employees took *adoptable* puppies and kittens from shelters and were caught dumping their euthanised bodies in a strip-mall dumpster. They were illegally in possession of euthanasia drugs, as well. In their defense, they said it was a mercy killing, and that animals are better off dead than being exploited as somebody's pets (paraphrased). [
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This only happened in 2005, and has been pretty common knowledge since then.
Additionally, the employees involved in that scandal were one woman who had been with the organisation for a couple of years and a male intern. The woman was suspended for ninety days while the intern was kept on -- some interviews with the suspended employee quote her as saying that she was doing exactly as she was told and that her suspension was to cover Newkirk's arse in the public eye.
Furthermore, while Consumer Freedom is incredibly biased toward politically conservative goals, a fair amount of their website information on PeTa includes PeTA's own *publicly available* tax records -- as an non-profit, their tax records *have to* be a matter of public record. Their tax records show that they do, in fact, spend more money on ad campaigns and publicity stunts and on hands-on aid to animals and credible educational programs (in fact, in response to CF's site, PeTA spokespersons and advocates claim shit like this advert and cheaply-produced comics like "A Chicken's Life" as "educational tools"). Their public records also show that they do, in fact, euthanise more animals than they adopt out.
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