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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it - Henry David Thoreau

Friday, June 17, 2005

Out With the Trash
by Lee

You’ve got to love the irony.

Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 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.

The two were picking up animals to be brought back to PETA headquarters for euthanization, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said Thursday. Neither police nor PETA offered any theory on why the animals might have been dumped.

Police charged Andrew Benjamin Cook, 24, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Adria Joy Hinkle, 27, of Norfolk, Va., each with 31 felony counts of animal cruelty and eight misdemeanor counts of illegal disposal of dead animals. They were released on bond and an initial court date was set for Friday

Let’s not forget that Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PeTA, once said, “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy,” drawing some kind of direct equivalence between all living things.  So, according to PeTA’s own beliefs, they might as well have been dumping human beings in the dumpster.  Let’s see if they’re sufficiently outraged.

Posted by Lee on 06/17/05 at 11:11 AM in Left Wing Idiocy  • (3) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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