Anton P. Nym said:
Then again, the authour of the piece has admitted to ties to the Discovery Institute [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute]... not exactly a blemish-free pedigree in academia. Though I don't doubt that PETA is thick-headed enough to do exactly these cockamamie things, I'd like some confirmation they did from people who aren't equally guilty of repudiating modern science and honest public discourse.
-- Steve
Other coverage:
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/535593.html
Littering charges from dumping the bodies overturned:
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/04/peta-workers-convictions-north-carolina-overturned
The petakillsanimals.com site has additional trial info, amongst other information. It's as heavy on the propaganda spin as PETA's site, so keep that in mind, but it does have the PETA's animal record documents submitted to the Virginia government confirming the euthanizing of animals.
Direct link to the 2006 info at the virginia.gov site, if you don't want to load up the pdf file (which also has previous years data as well): http://tinyurl.com/2tlk6l