Will We Take PETA Standards to Humans?

We're not sure what to make of this:

Information obtained from the State of Virginia shows that PETA has a long-standing practice of killing thousands of dogs, cats, and other animals at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. Along with the billboard, the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom is unveiling a new website -- www.PetaKillsAnimals.com -- where PETA's hypocritical death toll is on display. Between 1998 and 2003, PETA put to death over 10,000 dogs, cats, and other creatures that the group publicly calls “companion animals.” Not counting those that PETA held only temporarily -- for spaying or neutering -- the group killed over 85 percent of the animals it took in during 2003.

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We assume this one-sided story tells the truth about PETA killing many animals, but it doesnt' give PETA's reasons. PETA's rebuttal will probably be coming shortly, and we expect the killings will be justified on humanitarian grounds: the animals were sick, for instance, or maybe PETA couldn't care for them all and the overcrowding was resulting in a poor lifestyle.

It'd be interesting if PETA proffers such reasons. One of PETA's primary ideological premises is that humans and animals are equal. If PETA, an organization undeniably on the far left, is willing to treat animals this way, what does it say about the potential reaches of the left's support for human euthanasia?

We're painfully aware this sounds a bit shrill, but it's a fair question.