Richard Berman cares about animals: clients exposed

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Richard Berman Cares About Animals: Clients Exposed. PetaKillsAnimals.com is a website created in July 2004 by the food and beverage industry front group, the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF). CCF is a front group for the restaurant, alcohol and tobacco industries.

Overview

Richard Berman tirelessly dedicates funding from his clients in the tobacco industry, processed food industry, Meat & Dairy industry, Pharmaceutical industry and animal testing industry to exposing inconsistencies of malicious animal rights activists. This is achieved by engaging in sophomoric arguments and unreferenced rumor mongering. According to CCF:

In a 2003 profile of Newkirk in The New Yorker, author Michael Specter wrote that Newkirk has had at least one seeing-eye dog taken away from its blind owner.

Ingrid Newkirk is the president and co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). In 1970, she became involved in a local shelter; cleaning kennels and investigating cruelty cases. She also served as a Maryland law enforcement officer and achieved its highest success rate in abuse convictions. She was the director of cruelty investigations for the second oldest humane society in the country and chief of animal disease control for the Commission on Public Health. Ingrid Newkirk created the first free spay/neuter clinic in Washington, D.C. In extreme abuse/neglect cases, animals are occasionally taken away from their owners, although crimes against animals are rarely prosecuted. See also Puppy Mills.

According to CCF:

(PETA)'s “Holocaust on Your Plate” campaign crassly compared the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide to farm animals.

Another frequent target of CCF's relentless campaigns is Farm Animal Reform Movement (FARM). FARM was founded by Dr. Alex Hershaft, a child survivor of the Warsaw ghetto. According to Isaac Bashevis Singer;

As a son of Holocaust survivors and grandson of nonsurvivors, to me such "moral equivalence" is neither a diminishment of nor an insult to the memory of the Holocaust’s human victims. ..the dehumanization and persecution by the Nazis of their victims should (to quote Einstein) "widen our circle of compassion" to include the dreadfully analogous mass objectification and brutalization of our fellow animals.

Center for Consumer Freedom & Berman & Co. clients

CCF has received funding from the Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris), Tyson Foods, Coca Cola and Monsanto. Tyson is also a major supplier of restaurant chains, including Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonalds. Monsanto contracts product toxicity testing on animals out to Huntingdon Life Sciences. All of these corporations, as well as Phillip Morris contract laboratory Covance Laboratories; have been the subject of PETA and/or other animal rights campaigns over animal testing and welfare issues. Over 40% of the group's 2005 expenditure was paid to Rick Berman's PR company, Berman & Co. for management services.

Altria (Phillip Morris)

In 2005, PETA filed a shareholder resolution at Phillip Morris asking that the company cease all use of animals for the testing of tobacco products. PETA pointed out that animals respond very differently from humans to exposure to tobacco smoke; the most important difference is that in decades of experimentation, animals do not develop lung cancer even when hooked up around-the-clock to smoke ventilation machines. Claiming ownership of 114 shares of common stock, PETA submitted a shareholder proposal to eliminate the use of animals in testing the company’s tobacco products. The tobacco industry used animal test result to "prove" the safety of tobacco. Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom have placed limits or bans on the testing of tobacco products on animals. A PETA representative attended Altria's annual meeting in East Hanover, New Jersey on April 28, 2005 to present the resolution, which failed to pass. The American Cancer Society was an early promulgator of the link between smoking and cancer in the landmark epidemiological studies of 1952 and 1959. However, the tobacco industry was able to delay widespread acceptance of this link largely because animals in studies did not develop cancer. The Altria Group is a client of Covance Laboratories. Covance has amassed a history of gross animal welfare violations in the United States and Europe.

Covance Laboratories

Covance is an international Contract Research Organization (CRO). Firms hire CROs to conduct animal toxicity tests for agrochemicals, petrochemicals, household products, pharmaceutical drugs and toxins. CRP provides canines, rabbits, and non-human primates for laboratory use. CRP has created and trademarked new breeds of animals, including the Mini-Mongrel dog. Covance is the largest importer of primates in the United States and the world's largest breeder of laboratory dogs. Covance, under its former name of Hazleton Laboratories, was one of the original perpetrators of the infamous forced smoking experiments on beagles in the 1970s. Hazleton provided animal data favorable to the tobacco industry and contributed to the continued marketing of cigarettes. In the 1990s, Covance performed studies sponsored by the tobacco industry making claims that even extreme exposures to secondhand smoke were safe for humans.

Animal cruelty & welfare violations

Stop Animal Exploitation Now! (SAEN) is a national research watchdog organization. SAEN has included Covance Laboratories among the worst violators of U.S. laws. Covance Laboratories amassed a combined 42 violations between their Pennsylvania and Virginia laboratories, including the starving of dogs and failure to provide veterinary care for broken bones. (Government reports and ranking statistics available upon request.) Covance has amassed a history of gross animal welfare violations in the United States and Europe. See also Covance Laboratories, sections 3, 4 & 5 for welfare violations & U.S. Department of Agriculture reports.

Short list of violations in Vienna, Virginia

For a 6 month period from April 26, 2004, to March 11, 2005, an undercover investigator from PETA videotaped systematic abuse of animals at Covance Laboratories's facility in Vienna, Virginia. The investigator's video described the laboratory as a documentation of terror, sadness, sickness, injuries, suffering, and death (of monkeys from the wild and Covance breeding facilities). PETA filed a 273-page complaint with the USDA detailing violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act , , The following is a short list of the over 100 violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) for Covance's facility in Vienna, Virginia. These violations and this video led to investigations by the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act ,

• Striking, choking, screaming and cursing at uncooperative, frightened and sick monkeys.
• Slamming monkeys into their cages after they've had dosing tubes rammed down their noses and throats.
• Hosing down cages with sick, injured or recovering monkeys and/or dogs still inside.
• Slamming cages to terrorize loose monkeys out of hiding. Slamming the head of an escaped monkey against concrete.
• Denial of veterinary care and horrifying deaths in drug tests in which the veterinarian was forbidden to examine, treat or euthanize.
• Inappropriate sized dosing tubes - small monkeys dosed with large tubes forced up their nostrils and down into their stomachs, causing choking, gagging, and daily bloody noses.
• Self-mutilation resulting from Covance's failure to provide psychological enrichment and socialization.
• Injuries left untreated until they became necrotic. Broken arm untreated for 4 days.
• Non-stop blaring loud rock music, creating discomfort and alarm.
• Physical and psychological abuse of primates falling outside of the written study parameters.
• Falsifying records to cover up problems with the health of study animals and worker incompetence.
• Lack of employee training and supervision. Uncertified employees anesthetizing animals.
• Teasing, taunting, and yelling at primates for amusement.
• Knowingly using unhealthy animals in studies.
• Painful procedures performed in full view of other primates. Improperly grounded medical equipment burning research animals.
• During new technician training the new employees were told that there is nothing wrong with screaming or cursing at the monkeys, and forcing the monkeys to dance.
• Removing the quarantine sign from the quarantine room so that employees did not have to wear the required medical protection gowns.
• Intoxicated employees performing lab procedures on monkeys.
• Covance research director not euthanizing sick monkeys when directed to do so by the veterinarian.
• Failure to isolate imported primates. Malaria-infected monkeys still used in studies for pharmaceuticals.
• Lying about the cause of death for three monkeys found dead in their cages. , for USDA Reports, see also

Huntingdon Life Sciences

CCF's concern for helpless little animals, doesn't extend to the largest importer of primates in the United States and the world's largest breeder of laboratory dogs. Likewise, there is no more staunch supporter of Huntingdon Life Sciences, than CCF.

Huntingdon Life Sciences is a Contract Research Organization (CRO) and laboratory animal breeding company. Huntingdon Life Sciences is the 3rd largest CRO in the world and the largest animal testing facility in all of Europe. According to Inside HLS, a website that documents Huntingdon; HLS kills approximately HLS kills approximately 180,000 dogs, cats rats, rabbits, pigs, and primates (marmosets, macaques, and wild-caught baboons) per year testing products such as household cleaners, pesticides, weedkillers, cosmetics, food additives and industrial chemicals. Figures were obtained by averaging the numbers of animals from the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports and published reports from other government regulatory agents and overseers over the past few years. At any one period of time, there are approximately 70,000 animals housed in HLS facilities. All animals either die as a result of the experiments or are destroyed at the end. Like many laboratories, HLS uses Beagles due to their passive nature and unwillingness to bite. Their docile nature decreases resistance to placing tubes down their throats, restraining them and other procedures. ,

David Martosko & senate hearing focusing on HLS issues

According to Dr. Jerry Vlasik's public transcript for an October 10th, 2005 U.S. Senate:

HLS has been infiltrated and exposed 5 times in recent years by journalists, animal rights campaigners and members of the public; each time evidence of animal abuse and staff incompetence has been uncovered. A 1999 inspection of their Occold (UK) facility by the Good Laboratory Practice Monitoring Authority revealed 41 deficiencies, including errors in standard operating procedures, training issues, record keeping, quality assurance, equipment, labeling and facilities. 520 violations of the UK Good Laboratory Practices Act were documented in an expose by the Daily Press (UK) in 2000. They are the only UK laboratory to ever have their license revoked by the government. ...Each of the witnesses that have testified before me have their own financial interests at stake in the continued oppression, torture and murder of non-human animals by HLS.

Dr. Vlasik is a practicing trauma surgeon, former vivisector and Press Officer for the N. American Animal Office. He was also the only activist invited to attend these hearings. A previous hearing in May featured statements from David Martosko of the Center for Consumer Freedom.

Huntingdon Life Sciences & Splenda

According to Inside HLS; 32 beagle dogs were locked in metal cages for 52 weeks and given Sucralose mixed in with their normal feed. During the process, blood and urine samples were collected (including samples from the jugulars of infant dogs). At the termination of the study, the dogs were killed by exsanguiation (they had their throats slit open and bled to death.) They were subsequently dissected to test the products' toxicity levels. Four beagles were also starved prior to being force fed Sucralose. An unspecified number of marmoset (monkeys) died from poisoning or were killed at the termination of the study. The monkeys were force fed Sucralose for seven weeks. Two died of brain hemorages on the seventh day of the study, another was killed on the fourth week and the remainder were killed at the end of the seventh week. According to an HLS report, 12 of these monkeys were under 10 months old. Recorded observations included: in appetence, body weight loss, unwillingness to use hind leg, hopping, involuntary grip reflexes, salivation and subdued mood. Rabbits used in the study were given 1200 times expected daily intake and died from trauma. Other effects were convulsions, weight loss and intestinal disorders. Sucralose was also tested on pregnant rabbits, mice, and rats (killing mothers and fetuses). An estimated 12,800 animals killed in the process of testing Splenda. See also Johnson & Johnson, section 1.2.1. See also animal testing, section 3, product (toxicity) testing.

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)

The SHAC campaign was set up at the end of 1999 by a group of activists who had successfully closed down laboratory animal breeders in the United Kingdom. In 1996, the group initiated a campaign against Consort kennels, near Hereford. Over 800 beagles were kept at the kennels waiting to be sold to vivisection laboratories. The campaign involved daily demonstrations and all night vigils. In July 1997, after 10 months of campaigning; the kennels closed and 200 beagles were found homes. In September of 1997, the group initiated a campaign against the last remaining breeder of cats for vivisection in the UK. Hillgrove farm, in Oxfordshire, sold kittens as young as 10 days old to vivisection laboratories world wide. At the farm, over 1,000 cats were kept in windowless sheds. In August of 1999, the farm closed after 18 months of campaigning. 800 cats were rescued on August 12, 1999 and placed in homes. SHAC is an international campaign with groups in the UK, USA, France, Holland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and many other countries who target HLS and the global corporations which support them. HLS has a long history of gross animal welfare violations. See also Huntingdon Life Sciences, sections 2 & 3.

Tyson Foods

In separate investigations in 2007, PETA's investigator documented workers urinating in the live hang area and on the conveyor belt that carried birds to slaughter. The investigator also documented workers breaking the legs and wings of birds. According to the investigator, supervisors were directly involved in animal abuse and/or refused to enforce animal welfare policies. During the investigation, a supervisor was filmed telling the investigator that ripping off the heads of live birds was acceptable practice. A supervisor also failed to intervene when the heads and legs of birds became trapped at the end of the conveyor belt and when workers cut birds at the body (instead of the throat). Other abuses included throwing birds against shackles, breaking a chickens back by beating it on a rail, stabbing birds in the neck with knives and shackling birds by their necks instead of their legs. Animal abuse was documented at both the Georgia and Tennessee plants. In 2003, the company took in over $23 billion. Tyson is also a major supplier of restaurant chains, including McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken See also Tyson Foods, section 2.

Tyson is the supplier for Kentucky Fried Chicken; the subject of a PETA sponsored campaign called Kentucky Fried Cruelty. The campaign has pressured KFC to drop Tyson as its supplier due to Tyson's abusive animal practices as well as it's resistance to reforms. PETA has long campaigned against McDonalds' lack of animal welfare standards, which violate even minimal government standards. After two years of frustrating discussions, PETA launched its international McCruelty to go campaign.

Federal standards require that 100 percent of cows be fully stunned before they are skinned, but (according to) a McDonald’s training video ...it’s acceptable if five cows in every 100 are conscious while skinned and dismembered. See also McDonalds, section 9.

CCF & corporate sponsored human rights abuses

Also not likely to be included are the laundry list of human rights abuses by CCF clients like Tyson Foods. For example, in October of 2005, Tyson management physically and verbally assaulted striking Sudanese workers with racial and anti-immigrant insults during a strike in Alberta Canada. It was reported that several strikers were beaten with metal pipes and left injured in a ditch before being taken to the hospital. See also Tyson Foods, section 1.

Corporate concern: animal testing is good for business

According to CCF:

PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, solely because they support animal-based research aimed at curing life-threatening diseases and birth defects.

Drugs, vaccines, health issues & animal testing

A landmark article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on April 15, 1998, entitled, "Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions in Hospitalized Patients." In this study, researchers evaluated serious and fatal adverse drug reactions in U.S. hospitals during 1994. The study revealed that in 1994, adverse drug reactions accounted for 2,216,000 serious events, and 106,000 deaths in this country. , Researchers from Harvard and Boston Universities concluded that medical measures (drugs and vaccines) accounted for between 1 and 3.5 % of the total decline in mortality rate since 1900. Scores of animals were killed in the quest to find cures for tuberculosis, scarlet fever, small pox and diphtheria. Dr. Edward Kass of Harvard Medical School, asserts that the primary credit for the virtual eradication of these diseases must go to improvements in public health, sanitation and general standard of living. Additionally, 88% of doctors queried agreed that animal experiments can be misleading because of anatomical and physiological differences between animals and humans. See also animal testing, sections 1 & 2.

Thousands of rats, mice, rabbits, dogs, and primates are killed in pre-clinical laboratory poisoning experiments to assess the safety of new drugs. The FDA recently reported that 92 out of every 100 drugs that successfully pass animal trials subsequently fail human trials. , See also Food and Drug Administration, section 2 & animal testing, section 3.

American Cancer Society

Charities which fund animal testing include the American Cancer Society. There are more people living off of cancer than cancer sufferers. Millions of laboratory animals, including rats, mice, monkeys, guinea pigs, cats and dogs have been injected with cancerous material or implanted with malignancies. The American Cancer Society is largest non-religious charity in the world. As of the fiscal year ending in August of 2007, the ACS had a net revenue 1.17 billion dollars. ACS's daily expenditures exceed one million dollars with only approximately 16% going into patient cancer programs. The rest is funneled into expensive research and bureaucratic overhead. Meager prevention programs are designed not to offend the industry. The average American diagnosed with cancer spend upwards of $25,000 of their savings on cures to save or lengthen their lives. However, claims of 'progress' include many people with benign diseases. Those in remission for longer than 5 years are declared cured, although many of those will die from either cancer or treatment after five years.

March of Dimes

The March of Dimes has funneled millions into experiments on primates, rats, mice, cats, dogs, rabbits, pigs, sheep, guinea pigs and opossums. Research funded by March of Dimes includes:

• Sewing shut the eyes of newborn kittens for one year before killing them.
• Keeping newborn kittens in complete darkness for 3 to 5 months before killing them.
• Removing fetal kittens from the uterus and implanting them with pumps which inject a nerve destroying drug. They are then implanted back into the uterus and killed after birth.
• Implanting electric pumps into the backs of pregnant rats to inject nicotine.
• Injecting pregnant rats with cocaine.
• Injecting newborn possums with alcohol and decapitating them any where from between one hour and 32 weeks later (at which point, sexual organs are removed.)
• Transplanting organs from pigs to baboons (who die within hours) and transplanting organs from guinea pigs to rats.
• Destroying the ear drums of unborn lambs and killing mother sheep and lambs just before birth to examine their brains. See also Ten Worst Laboratories.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), birth defects have increased in frequency. Out of 38 birth defects studied over 10 years; 27 have increased, 9 occur at the same rate and 2 have decreased. Approximately 25% of all infant deaths could be eliminated with better pre-natal services. Infant deaths would decrease by 10 to 25% if women gave up smoking during pregnancy. Alcohol abuse during pregnancy is the leading cause of preventable birth defects.

It is easy to see the motivation behind CCF's stance on life saving research. Cutting down on substances like alcohol, tobacco and dangerous, animal tested pharmaceuticals and toxins; is bad for business.

Other groups

According to CCF,

PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals. This includes a 2001 donation of $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an FBI-certified “domestic terrorist” group responsible for dozens of firebombs and death threats. During the 1990s, PETA paid $70,200 to Rodney Coronado, an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) serial arsonist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory. In his sentencing memorandum, a federal prosecutor implicated PETA president Ingrid Newkirk in that crime.

Again, this is entirely unreferenced. There is no reference to Ingrid Newkirk's being charged with arson; nor anyone in her employ. Furthermore, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is a non-membership based environmental organization. It was inspired by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). ALF also has no formal organization, membership or dues. It does not solicit donations. According to ALF:

While some people claiming to be affiliated with it have made death-threats to workers in testing labs, and to people who supply those labs (e.g. cleaning firms and rodent breeders), these people are disavowed by the ALF. ALF takes all necessary precautions against hurting any animal, human and non-human... Any action involving (physical) violence is by its definition not an ALF action, and any person involved is not an ALF member.

Incidents involving victimized activists resulting in death

There has not been an incident resulting in serious physical injury or death by an animal rights or environmental activist since the inception of the movement approximately 30 years ago. However, there have been a number of incidents involving victimized activists injured or killed. See also Animal Liberation Front.

Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

Critics have characterized the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act as being designed to protect the financial interests of corporations and industry as well as chill dissent and discourage legal activism, boycotts and protests. ,

PETA kids

According to CCF:

PETA brags that its messages reach over 1.2 million minor children, including 30,000 kids between the ages of 6 and 12, all contacted by e-mail without parental supervision.

PETA's departments include, Peta Kids, which is geared to children and contains age appropriate material.

PETA's local programs in Virginia & North Carolina

Shocking inconsistencies also include humane euthanasia, as opposed to gas chambers; or animal testing life saving products like tobacco, Viagra and Splenda. According to CCF:

Hypocrisy is the mother of all credibility problems, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has it in spades. While loudly complaining about the "unethical" treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, the group has its own dirty little secret. PETA kills animals. By the thousands.

PETA provides free housing and spay/neuter services to local communities. They have delivered straw and hundreds of free, sturdy dog houses, rescued dogs and cats and paid for their veterinary care. PETA built a cat shelter in an area where cats had been abandoned to breed. They are currently building a new shelter for a local municipality. See also, pictures of animals in NC.

North Carolina shelters

In 2000, PETA was contacted by a police officer who was appalled by the terrible suffering of animals in local North Carolina shelters. Some shelters were nothing more than exposed, unheated or cooled shacks that left animals to either drown or freeze, depending on the weather. PETA became involved in assisting shelters with cleaning, adoptions, training, staff, providing supplies, conducting cruelty investigations and providing adequate shelter to animals as well as humane euthanasia. PETA has spent over $300,000 on services to NC shelters. Many pounds in the area had no adoption programs or even operating hours. Unwanted animals were either shot, gassed in windowless metal boxes or injected with a paralytic agent that caused them to slowly die of suffocation. PETA was only able to secure veterinary services for lethal injection for one of the four pounds. The rest made arrangements to have animals picked up by staff or volunteers.

NC euthanasia statistics & use of gas chambers

Over 250,000 homeless animals are killed in North Carolina shelters annually. In NC, over 30 county and city shelters still use gas chambers and other inhumane methods. (Less than 1% of all U.S. shelters still use gas chambers, which are banned in many states.) Animals gasp for breath while they slowly suffocate and succumb to carbon monoxide poisoning. Witnesses have seen animals struggling and wailing for up to ten minutes before death. In their panic, some bite themselves and each other and beat their heads the walls while they choke and vomit. Inhalation of gasses is not approved for baby, very old, sick or pregnant animals since they may not be able to inhale enough to die. Yet, in N. Carolina they are often gassed together. One of the biggest proponents for gas chamber use in NC is Dr. Ralph Houser, DVM, whom many credit as solely responsible for the reluctance of the state’s Board of Agriculture to ban gas chambers. Dr. Ralph Houser, DVM sits on the board of the NC Animal Rabies Control Association Dr. Houser not only advocates for gas chambers, he manufactures and sells them.

Emergency calls & rescues

According to CCF:

PETA holds absolutely no open-adoption shelter hours at its Norfolk, VA headquarters.

National organizations primarily work on the broad view, which includes research, public education and outreach and assisting local shelters and rescues. PETA does not operate an animal shelter, other than two small, cageless rooms set aside for animals surrendered to their organization. They do answer emergency calls for strays, abused, neglected and homeless animals and animals turned away from shelters. For example, the local branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in Norfolk, Virginia has a selective admission policy. In 2004, it took in only 1.7 percent of all homeless animals, or 765 out of 45,450. See also People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, sections 2 & 4 on Companion Animals and Local programs in Virginia & North Carolina.

Pet overpopulation & puppy mills

According to the Humane Society of the United States, 6 to 8 million companion animals a year enter U.S. shelters. Approximately 3 to 4 million of those animals are euthanized. Every day in the U.S., thousands of companion animals are born due to uncontrolled pet breeding and lack of spay/neuter laws. Other negative byproducts of pet overpopulation include the transformation of shelters into warehouses and incredible stress on shelter workers forced to euthanize animals. See War on Animals, section 7.1.

CCF has many staunch supporters in the Puppy Mills industry. For example, the National Animal Interest Alliance is a front group and industry lobbying organization for animal commerce and agriculture based in Portland, Oregon. Its director, Patti Strand, is a board member of the American Kennel Club since 1995.

Overview of organization & other targeted organizations

According to CCF:

PETA kills animals. Because it has other financial priorities. PETA rakes in nearly $30 million each year in income, much of it raised from pet owners who think their donations actually help animals.

PETA is an international animal advocacy organization, not a shelter or rescue facility. PETA members are not under the false impression that PETA is an animal shelter; a fact which can be easily verified by visiting their websites. Members are kept informed of issues via email, mail or publications and usually participate in letter writing and other campaigns. PETA sites were visited by over than 63 million people in 2007. Whether or not PETA operates a shelter is not the real issue. Organizations such as Farm Sanctuary and United Poultry Concerns, who both run animal sanctuaries; are also targets. See also A Visit to the ActivistCash.Com Web Site.

PETA's financial statement & salaries

For fiscal year ending 2007: PETA reported 83.78% of funding went directly into programs; 11.96% was spent on fund raising and 4.26% on administration and operations.

45% of PETA's staff make $21,840 to $29,999; 36% earn $30,000 to $39,999 and only the remaining 19% make over $39,999. President and founder; Ingrid Newkirk earned 34,000 during the fiscal year ending July 31, 2007. See also People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, section 7.

Articles & sources

SourceWatch articles

• Berman & Co.
• Rick Berman
• ActivistCash.com
• Center for Consumer Freedom
• A Visit to the ActivistCash.Com Web Site
• American Beverage Institute
• Employment Policies Institute
• Employment Roundtable
• FishScam.com
• Conservatives target the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• War on Animals
• U.S. animal rights legislation
• U.S. Government's War on Animals
• Humane Movement

External articles

• Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)'s web site, www.BermanExposed.org, accessed February 2009