Adria Hinkle Animal Killing Update

If you have not read the trial transcripts on the PETA case that I wrote about here, you can get caught up at www.petakillsanimals.com. It makes for some compelling reading.

One thing about this trial has become clear, and its the fact that Adria Hinkle was a cold-hearted animal killer. She drove a van all day killing animals, then dropped the carcasses in convenient garbage bins. Hell, other uneducated people flip burgers. I guess Adria, as a proper vegan, wanted to kill meat for a living instead of grilling it.

But at least she gave the frightened animals a last meal before she shoved the needle into the dogs. From PKA here:

We’re not sure why, but Adria Hinkle thought it would be swell to give her furry victims a Last Meal:

“I informed Andy that I wanted him to bring the animals one at a time. And I went into my van, and I prepared my van to start euthanizing animals. So I put blankets down, and, and got food out. I would feed I would typically give dogs canned cat food as a treat before I euthanized them, because dogs typically really like canned cat food.”

And it is curious that PETA would stand with this employee when they could have easily thrown her under the bus by declaring that she was not following guidelines in the handling, transport and euthanising of the animals. The only reason I could think that PETA is backing the employee is that PETA has some culpability in the crime.

That culpability seems to be evident in the elitist guidelines that PETA issues to its employees on how to deal with residents of North Carolina, in which PETA declares that North Carolinians are ignorant about dog care and have no standards unless PETA enlightens them. From PKA again:

On the night they were arrested, Hinkle and Cook had a copy of a PETA field manual with them a binder titled “Communications Protocol For North Carolina.”

Hinkle was asked to read aloud from it during her cross-examination:

“They always have their dogs run loose in the country, and that’s probably how they got the dog in the first place. And they may never have heard of keeping a big dog in the house. They really, in most cases, just do not know any better. Yes, it sucks. And it’s tough and frustrating, and we come upon a lot of neglect and cruelty. But remember that they have no standard of comparison until we show them a better way. They’ve grown up that way. They’re socialized that way. They haven’t seen anything different.

“They” the Jurors, all from rural North Carolina were not amused. More than half of them are dog owners, and most of those have “outside dogs.”

Who knows how the trial will go? A verdict should be in today or Monday.