PETA Suing Animal Rights Group

PETA in it's never ending quest for money, power and media attention is now suing another animal rights group. PETA is suing the Friends of Animals animal advocacy organization's primate sanctuary. Friends of Animals (FOA) is a non-profit, international animal advocacy organization in New York. FOA runs a primate sanctuary located state of Texas.

PETA’s latest attempt at shutting FOA down (there were four other attempts) alleges that they are in violation of the “dangerous wild animals” statute. The suit asks the Court to force PPI to get rid of all of its “dangerous wild animals,” including its chimpanzees, African lion, and baboons.

It sounds to me that Friends of Animals must have crapped in PETA's cornflakes at some point.

After some searching I found this...

"The reason PETA is suing FOA (Friends of Animals) is very simple, and it's not about the primates. FOA is the only animal rights group that has publicly denounced PETA's hypocritical and--in some cases--criminal practice of rounding up and killing adoptable cats and dogs and then lying to the public about it. Even with its $30,000,000 budget, PETA can't manage to find homes for more than a handful of animals a year.

PETA does not need to operate a shelter for the animals it takes in because it kills almost all of them. No overhead there! All it needs is enough money to keep plenty of Fatal Plus on hand."


Cumulative cost of PETA-funded lawsuits against Primarily Primates may reach $1 million

SAN ANTONIO--Judge Solomon Casseb III of the 288th Judicial District Court of Bexar County, Texas, on March 11, 2009 rejected Primarily Primates' motion for a summary judgement dismissing the latest round of four years of PETA-funded litigation against the sanctuary.

From Friends of Animals , April 2009:

"Feral told ANIMAL PEOPLE that Primarily Primates and Friends of Animals spent more than $50,000 defending against the initial PETA-backed case; spent more than $240,000 to regain control of Primarily Primates after it was placed in receivership; and have already spent more than $80,000 defending against the Hensley case. PETA and the plaintiffs aligned with PETA have not disclosed their legal expenses, but the American Justice Partnership Foundation estimates that plaintiffs on average incur about 60% of the cost of pressing a lawsuit, while defendants incur about 40%. This ratio would suggest that total cost of cases involving Primarily Primates since 2006 now exceeds $925,000--more than the total income of the sanctuary in all but two years before FoA annexed it."

The lawsuit between PETA and Friends of Animals, over a four year period, has cost close to one million bucks. All that money from both sides is from donations. If the people only knew how much of their donated money gets wasted on crap like this rather then spending the million bucks helping out the animals. Which is what they claim to be doing and they are supposed to be doing.

PETA lawsuit against Friend of Animals is about alleged financial mismanagement. PETA is claiming that the Friends of Animals group is not handling their money properly.

Well now, that is interesting...it's the preverbal pot calling the kettle black here.
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