PETA’s 2024 Pet Slaughter (2,174) Beats NIH’s Beagle Lab (2,133 in 40 Years), However Now They’re Posing as Heroes and Providing to Rehome Lab Survivors | The Gateway Pundit

In a transfer that’s each shameless and predictable, the deceptively named Folks for the Moral Remedy of Animals (PETA) is doing the media rounds pretending to be heroes of the NIH beagle lab shutdown, when in actuality they weren’t concerned and killed extra cats and canine simply final 12 months than the now shuttered lab did in 40 years.

The true MVP in saving these animals was the White Coat Waste Challenge (WCW), a scrappy taxpayer watchdog with about six % of PETA’s price range. Since 2016, the bipartisan group has been relentlessly combating to shut down the Nationwide Institutes of Well being’s merciless canine labs.

As WCW was doing actual work, PETA was gathering COVID bailout cash and racking up a physique rely of cats and canine, which made the NIH’s four-decade dying tally seem like novice hour.

The NIH’s beagle lab, a home of horrors the place these animals have been subjected to surprising experiments since 1986, was shuttered in Could 2025 underneath the Trump administration’s NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. During the last 40 years, 2,133 beagles have been tortured and killed by the researchers there.

Via relentless Freedom of Data Act requests, lawsuits, and lobbying, WCW uncovered details about 41 beagles killed from 2021 to 2022 and used this data to rally bipartisan assist to defund the lab.

Regardless of having nothing to do with this large win for animals, PETA started a media victory lap that was a masterclass in gaslighting. The group rapidly issued a press launch virtually claiming they single-handedly freed the beagles — and despatched flowers and a thanks notice to Dr. Bhattacharya. Their precise contribution? A 2021 lawsuit in opposition to the NIH that, shock, didn’t even point out the beagle lab.

As an alternative, the group had solely targeted on the mouse experiments, ignoring the struggling of the pups.

That didn’t cease these shameless grifters from claiming of their press launch that “PETA first publicly uncovered NIH’s beagle sepsis experiment in 2020.” The experiments, nevertheless, have been uncovered by WCW in 2016. If PETA’s mission was truly saving animals as an alternative of gathering cash and energy, why not have fun the group doing probably the most to finish the struggling and assist construct them up?

Whereas PETA poses for the cameras and postures as nice defenders of animals, their shelter in Norfolk, Virginia, is a dying manufacturing facility which may even make Dr. Anthony Fauci blush.

Based on the Virginia Division of Agriculture and Client Providers (VDACS), PETA’s Neighborhood Animal Challenge took in 3,117 canine and cats in 2023 and euthanized 2,471 of them, a 79% kill price. In 2024, petakillsanimals.com estimates PETA killed 2,174 canine and cats, outpacing the NIH’s 2,133 beagle deaths over 4 a long time in only one 12 months.

PETA’s excuse for the mass slaughter? They absorb “unadoptable” animals which are aggressive, sick, or aged and provide free euthanasia to house owners who can’t afford it.

Sadly, courtroom circumstances inform a darker story.

In 2007, two PETA staff have been tried for animal cruelty in North Carolina after dumping lifeless canine and cats in a dumpster, together with animals they claimed have been “cute” and “good.” In 2017, PETA paid $49,000 to a household after euthanizing their 9-year-old daughter’s chihuahua, Maya. Ingrid Newkirk, PETA’s president, has brazenly known as pet possession “an abysmal state of affairs” and mentioned, “If folks need toys, they need to purchase inanimate objects.” She additionally advocates for the whole eradication of sure species, most notably pitbulls.

“If folks need toys, they need to purchase inanimate objects. If they need companionship, they need to search it with their very own variety,” PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has mentioned. “In the long run, I believe it could be pretty if we stopped this entire notion of pets altogether.”

Paperwork uncovered by PETAKillsAnimals.com indicated that following an inspection of the PETA services, the Commonwealth of Virginia was so shocked by the variety of animals that they kill every year that the state inspector tried to revoke their license to function a shelter.

Dr. Daniel Kovich, the investigator with the VDACS who carried out the inspection of PETA’s animal shelter at its Virginia headquarters in July 2010, decided that “the ability doesn’t comprise ample animal enclosures to routinely home the variety of animals yearly reported as taken into custody.”

It seems that it is because PETA has by no means meant to maintain animals which are surrendered to them.

“After reviewing two months price of information, Kovich discovered that 245 of the 290 animals–84 %–that PETA took into custody have been killed inside 24 hours. Solely 17 have been reported as adopted or in foster houses. Kovich famous that PETA’s shelter didn’t meet PETA’s personal revealed pointers for working a humane animal shelter,” PETA Kills Animals experiences.

In 2021, The Gateway Pundit revealed pictures of PETA’s kill room and freezer that have been supplied by a whistleblower who beforehand labored with the group.

The group’s egregious nonsense doesn’t cease there. Although they’re kissing as much as the administration now, PETA has spent the previous few years attacking Trump to pander to potential liberal donors.

Their X posts and blogs from 2021–2024 are affected by anti-Trump rhetoric, from mocking his environmental insurance policies to slamming his administration’s animal testing stance, utterly ignoring that Trump had made many strikes to curb animal analysis throughout his first time period.

Actually, in 2019, throughout his first time period, the Trump administration closed the federal government’s largest cat lab. Nonetheless, PETA claimed in a now-deleted tweet that “Sadly, Trump did nothing to cease animal experimentation. Humorous, since Trump did greater than their group has!

WCW is the one animal advocacy group to close down any authorities primate lab in practically a decade, any authorities canine testing labs in nearly 20 years, and any authorities cat lab within the final 40 years.

Simply yesterday, the Division of Protection confirmed the cancellation of a $10 million contract to shove marbles up the anuses of cats and electroshock them, after Laura Loomer and White Coat Waste uncovered the merciless experiments.

In April, the Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) introduced plans to section out animal testing necessities, beginning with monoclonal antibodies and increasing to different medication after an extended strain marketing campaign from WCW.

The Trump administration’s Environmental Safety Company (EPA) has additionally pledged to get rid of animal testing, reinstating a plan initially launched throughout President Trump’s first time period and squashed by Joe Biden.

Earlier this week, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins confirmed the division will finish at the least a few of its primate testing earlier than the 2026 deadline set by Congress. Since 2016, WCW had labored to reveal how the VA was giving puppies coronary heart assaults, injecting monkeys with angel mud, crippling kittens, drilling into cat’s skulls, and way more.

Now, PETA is instantly wanting to “assist” rehome the NIH’s surviving beagles, “relying on their situation.” Why the newfound curiosity? Maybe as a result of it’s a PR win, not like their normal enterprise of euthanizing animals. If PETA’s observe document is any information, these beagles is perhaps higher off steering away from Norfolk.

PETA’s try to hog the highlight for the NIH beagle lab shutdown is a basic case of stolen valor. White Coat Waste Challenge did the heavy lifting—exposing the lab, rallying lawmakers, and mobilizing public outrage—whereas PETA was preoccupied with their very own slaughterhouse and political point-scoring.

The numbers don’t lie: PETA killed 2,174 canine and cats in 2024 alone, dwarfing the NIH’s 2,133 beagle deaths over 40 years. If PETA needs to take credit score for something, it’s their unmatched effectivity in turning shelters into morgues. As for the beagles? They’re free, no because of PETA’s late-to-the-party flowers.