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Animal Care
The Animal Rights Agenda
- Wayne Pacelle, President
Humane Society of the United States
The animal rights movement is sweeping through America's states one by one with ballot initiatives and changes to ownership rights. Between 1990 and 2008 animal rights activists pushed over 40 ballot campaigns across the nation. Ballot initiatives and legislative public policy efforts are the tools used by the Humane Society of the United States, and other animal rights activist groups to carry out their ultimate goal of destroying animal agriculture and pet ownership in the United States.
This is one of the most important pages on the Missourians for Animal Care coalition website! Please read all the articles below to educate yourself about the animals rights movement!
7 Things You Didn't Know About HSUS
Lobbying Activities of the HSUS by Frank Losey
Spay and Neuter the HSUS by Frank Losey
119 Incriminating Examples by Frank Losey
Could Dogs Be The Next Endangered Species?
Dealing with the "Humaniacs" in Ten Easy Lessons.
Citizens Against Animal Rights Extremism
Animal Rights 101 -- The Basics
The "Humane" Society of the United States
Animal Welfare Versus Animal Rights
HSUS agenda: A threat to animal agriculture
The HSUS 5-Year Plan: No Animals Left
Animal Rights = No Animals Left
Pet Ownership: Right or Privilege?
Animal Rights Movement:Wolves in sheep's clothing
The Truth about The Humane Society of the United States: Wayne Pacelle Exposed
Quotes from the Leaders of the Animal Rights Movement
Financial Records for Animal Charities
Animal
Rights or Animal Welfare?
By Anne Edwards, Vice President
MFAO
Many commonsense, compassionate people who love their animals do not understand the true nature of the animal rights movement. They care about their animals and want to insure they are treated humanely. Because they have been misled into believing that the movement is about something else (helping animals), they "think" they are for animal rights. What they actually believe in is animal welfare, from a responsible animal ownership perspective. They own and love animals and care for them and do not want to see any animal abused.
Do not confuse these feelings of compassion for animals with a movement that actually has no true regard for the protection of an animal's or a human's rights. If a person truly cares about animals, it is critical to realize the difference between the two philosophies. Every person who thinks he/she is for animal rights, when they are actually for animal welfare, poses a threat to themselves and others when it comes to our continued right to own animals. They help perpetuate a philosophy that has the potential to legally change our relationships with animals, permanently. This can happen because those laws that are passed by the animal rights people put us closer and closer to the place where our right to own any animals, for any purpose, has been legislated away.
True animal rights people hate humans and feel they are a blight on the planet. They only tolerate themselves and each other so they can carry on their campaigns against the rest of humanity. They don't particularly like non-human animals but by constantly claiming "animal abuse" they can play on the emotions of softhearted animal welfare people and solicit money from them to promote their agenda.
A part of the animal rights movement is to legally elevate the animal to a level as high as, or higher than, that of a person. When this happens those animals that depend upon us for their food, shelter, vet care, and affection are actually put at risk because the animal rights sponsored law has decreased the expected responsibilities of the animal owner.
If animals are to have the same legal rights as people then they will be expected to have the same level of responsibility as people, also. Is not one of the most important differences between humans and animals that humans are expected to take responsibility for their own actions and the actions of the animals owned by them? If the legal system sees fit to place animals on a par with people then might I ask that my pets take their turn paying the rent, buying my food as well as their own and paying my doctor's bills as well as their vet bills? Think about it the next time you get a solicitation from one of those "animal rights" organizations, such as HSUS or PETA or one of the others, that neither helps or likes animals, and does not pay the rent for you or your pets.
These organizations care about only two things: (1) making more money for themselves and to (2) support and promote an extremist agenda that advocates no interaction whatsoever between humans and animals.
-by Tina M. Perriguey
My heroine Jeane Kirkpatrick (U.S. ambassador to the United Nations) once stated, “The defense of freedom begins at home, and the price of freedom is vigilance and courage.”
Man, was she right. For the past four years, most of my life has been devoted to honoring those words, fighting to defend the freedoms of Americans against the “animal rights” (AR) movement.
This fight has made something clear to me. In this country, freedom is never stolen from us by a thief in the night. It gets handed away, a piece at a time, by those of us who are weak, cowardly, or uncaring.
Our freedoms are being systematically destroyed in an epidemic of anti-pet, anti-farmer, anti-animal use laws sweeping our nation. The driving force behind these laws is the richest "animal rights" organization on the planet. The deceptively-named Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) disclosed over $206 million in assets in it's 2007 Annual Report. “Over” is the operative term in the previous sentence. How much exactly do they have? Nobody knows.
Want to try to “follow the money” of HSUS? Start with a map and a brilliant forensic accountant. You're about to enter a maze of subsidiaries, shadow groups and holdings in foreign countries so dizzying that Tony Soprano and Al-Qaeda leaders would be impressed.
There is nothing humane about the “Humane” Society of the United States. Those who know the truth about the organization have come to typing their acronym in a more accurate fashion: H$U$. While they send endless fundraising requests to help them ostensibly "end the suffering",
Think HSUS cares about animals? Think again. Imagine a highly publicized case of child abuse in our country. Picture the most horrific conditions a large family of children could have to endure. Now try to imagine yourself running a website internet ad campaign pleading for contributions for care of the children. Now imagine the same scenario when YOU NEVER HAD CARE OR CUSTODY of any of those poor abused children. Can’t imagine it, right? You can’t imagine exploiting the mental, psychological and physical torture of children, can you? Let’s go one step further. Try to imagine collecting vast sums of money in your deceptive campaign, and then telling the people who really were taking care of the children that therapy couldn’t possibly rehabilitate their troubled minds, and was a waste of time - that these children were doomed to a lifetime of being violent, a menace to society.
Yes, that’s a horrible scenario I just compelled you to picture. (I apologize. It hurts me too.) Before you start thinking I’m sick to even “go there”, let me tell you something about the “Humane” Society of the United States. Picture the above situation, but instead of a large group of children, substitute the terribly tortured fighting dogs that belonged to Michael Vick. Instead of you that was lying and claiming you were raising money for the care of vulnerable and tragic victims, it’s the “Humane” Society of the United States. HSUS never had care, never had custody of the Vick dogs - but lied, lied, and lied some more, and convinced God-only-knows-how-many compassionate, check-writing Americans that they were taking care of those victims of abuse.
The link below shows the captured website page of HSUS that did exactly that: http://www.consumerfreedom
The Irony Police are pounding on the door. These dogs had endured pain and violence almost their entire lives. For what? To be exploited for cold, hard cash - collected by men who saw the dogs as nothing more than a means to an end.
Then Michael Vick was arrested, and his dogs were rescued from their hell on earth. What happened next? HSUS continued the tradition of exploiting them for money. And after HSUS had collected what they must have deemed an appropriate amount of money for one of their most evil scams ever, they recommended the dogs be killed.
How soulless does a person have to be to cash those checks?
(By the way, the Vick dogs weren’t killed. They were given a second chance. HSUS’s advice was rejected, and the dogs were taken in by a group who began the work of rehabilitating them. One of the Vick dogs is now a certified therapy dog.)
Wayne Pacelle, President of HSUS, has stated:
“One generation and out. We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.”
The next time you read about proposed mandatory spay/neuter (MSN) legislation (this won’t take long - these laws are sweeping the nation in a steamrolling of the Constitution that would have made our Founding Fathers take up arms) - remember that quote from Wayne Pacelle. By the way, mandatory spay/neuter laws DON’T decrease the number of dogs and cats taken in and killed by shelters. There are MORE shelter intakes and euthanasias in areas where MSN has been passed into law. Which you and I think is awful. But it’s a good thing if you’re Wayne Pacelle, and your philosophy is, “One generation and out.”
{In the interest of full disclosure... HSUS did very, very quietly back off their support of MSN during the debacle of AB 1634 - the statewide MSN bill they supported in 2007. (Description of the "AB 1634 train wreck" will be supplied in a separate post). HSUS "changed their position" so silently almost no one noticed. And they did it just as they were gearing up for Prop 2. Coincidence? You make the call. Want my theory? WP didn't want to be spending Year Two getting his a__ kicked by the ethical, and painstakingly-accurate Save Our Dogs coalition - as he was simultaneously trying to run his Prop 2 scam game on the California public.
I'll add this. As the 2007 CA legislative session closed, Wayne Pacelle was licking his war wounds. And he was forced to notice that AB 1634 had proven one of Tom McClintock's favorite lines is true: Democracies work best in times of crisis. Anyone who thinks that Wayne Pacelle silently backed away from AB 1634 because he grew a conscience, doesn't know Wayne Pacelle. }
HSUS Spokesman J.P. Goodwin has declared “My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture.” Mr. Goodwin, formerly with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) has a long arrest record and a history of promoting arson to advance the animal liberation agenda.
The cute-sounding ALF and ELF have a fondness for threats, intimidation, bombs and arson that have led them to the top of the FBI Domestic Terrorist Watch List.
How much do you know about the best way to keep pigs or chickens healthy and safe? Unless you happen to be a farmer, you probably know virtually nothing about such matters. And that’s exactly what the animal rights movement is counting on, when they show you short clips of videos designed to get you to vote for their ballot initiatives.
It's a line that’s been repeated millions of times because it’s such a classic. Benjamin Disraeli stated “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” If he were alive today, I suspect this famous quote would be longer: “There are four kinds of lies: lies, statistics, damn lies and videos.”
Oprah had Wayne Pacelle on her show last year, to promote California’s Prop 2, and they showed a short video clip of a farm letting hens out to cruise around a barnyard. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest, and I got to wondering how much they would have had to edit that video if a chicken hawk had done a “drive-by”. Here’s what they didn’t show you, and what Pacelle doesn’t want you to know. When chickens get scared, they pile up on each other in a frantic, terrified heap. The unlucky chickens in the lower layers get crushed.
Broken bones and mortality rates are twice as high for hens living "cage-free" - compared to the hens living in the safety which city-dwelling California voters have now made illegal.
Oprah’s research department should be fired.
Prop 2 passed, and I’m sure the 3,000 egg farm workers headed for the unemployment lines would love to have a talk with Oprah.
Cause here’s the kicker. It would cost $500 million to implement the changes required by Prop 2. California taxes already make the state a business nightmare. Long before vegan Washington D.C. lobbyist Wayne Pacelle showed up on Oprah to do his snow job on voters, UC Davis published a study which stated clearly that Prop 2 passage would eliminate almost all of the California egg industry. Of course, Pacelle didn’t mention that on Oprah.
So, at the end of the day, even if you think there shouldn’t be caged hens, passage of Prop 2 didn’t achieve that. Pacelle knew it wouldn’t achieve that. It just wiped out 7-generation-family farms. Think about that the next time HSUS begs you to send money to end “factory farming.”
Let’s break it down. A donation to HSUS means you support exploitation of dogfighting, dead dogs and cats, and terrified chickens getting crushed to death. (Not to mention skyrocketing food prices, unemployment numbers, and fatal disease - yes, we'll get to Avian Bird Flu later.)
Copyright 2009 Tina M. Perriguey
