PETA Caught Unethically Treating Animals

Fox News reports on a curious case from North Carolina involving our favorite animal activists PETA:

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.

I'm surprised to read that PETA is involved in euthanizing animals. I would have assumed, given their militant stand against animal products, that their love for all of God's furry little creatures would have prevented them from killing them for any reason. Guess not.