Anybody can herd cattle. Holding together ten thousand half wild short hairs - that's another thing altogether.
Posted on 03/10/2009 8:50:57 AM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
From the Center for Consumer Freedom:
7 Things You Didn't Know About HSUS
1) The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is a “humane society” in name only, since it doesn’t operate a single pet shelter or pet adoption facility anywhere in the United States. During 2006, HSUS contributed only 4.2 percent of its budget to organizations that operate hands-on dog and cat shelters. In reality, HSUS is a wealthy animal-rights lobbying organization (the largest and richest on earth) that agitates for the same goals as PETA and other radical groups.
2) Beginning on the day of NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s 2007 dogfighting indictment, HSUS raised money online with the false promise that it would “care for the dogs seized in the Michael Vick case.” The New York Times later reported that HSUS wasn’t caring for Vick’s dogs at all. And HSUS president Wayne Pacelle told the Times that his group recommended that government officials “put down” (that is, kill) the dogs rather than adopt them out to suitable homes. HSUS later quietly altered its Internet fundraising pitch.
3) HSUS’s senior management includes a former spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a criminal group designated as “terrorists” by the FBI. HSUS president Wayne Pacelle hired John “J.P.” Goodwin in 1997, the same year Goodwin described himself as “spokesperson for the ALF” while he fielded media calls in the wake of an ALF arson attack at a California veal processing plant. In 1997, when asked by reporters for a reaction to an ALF arson fire at a farmer’s feed co-op in Utah (which nearly killed a family sleeping on the premises), Goodwin replied, “We’re ecstatic.” That same year, Goodwin was arrested at a UC Davis protest celebrating the 10-year anniversary of an ALF arson at the university that caused $5 million in damage. And in 1998, Goodwin described himself publicly as a “former member of ALF.”
4) According to a 2008 Los Angeles Times investigation, less than 12 percent of money raised for HSUS by California telemarketers actually ends up in HSUS’s bank account. The rest is kept by professional fundraisers. And if you exclude two campaigns run for HSUS by the “Build-a-Bear Workshop” retail chain, which consisted of the sale of surplus stuffed animals (not really “fundraising”), HSUS’s yield number shrinks to just 3 percent. Sadly, this appears typical. In 2004, HSUS ran a telemarketing campaign in Connecticut with fundraisers who promised to return a minimum of zero percent of the proceeds. The campaign raised over $1.4 million. Not only did absolutely none of that money go to HSUS, but the group paid $175,000 for the telemarketing work.
5) Research shows that HSUS’s heavily promoted U.S. “boycott” of Canadian seafood—announced in 2005 as a protest against Canada’s annual seal hunt—is a phony exercise in media manipulation. A 2006 investigation found that 78 percent of the restaurants and seafood distributors described by HSUS as “boycotters” weren’t participating at all. Nearly two-thirds of them told surveyors they were completely unaware HSUS was using their names in connection with an international boycott campaign. Canada’s federal government is on record about this deception, saying: “Some animal rights groups have been misleading the public for years … it’s no surprise at all that the richest of them would mislead the public with a phony seafood boycott.”
6) HSUS raised a reported $34 million in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, supposedly to help reunite lost pets with their owners. But comparatively little of that money was spent for its intended purpose. Louisiana’s Attorney General shuttered his 18-month-long investigation into where most of these millions went, shortly after HSUS announced its plan to contribute $600,000 toward the construction of an animal shelter on the grounds of a state prison. Public disclosures of the disposition of the $34 million in Katrina-related donations add up to less than $7 million.
7) After gathering undercover video footage of improper animal handling at a Chino, CA slaughterhouse during November of 2007, HSUS sat on its video evidence for three months, even refusing to share it with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. HSUS’s Dr. Michael Greger testified before Congress that the San Bernardino County (CA) District Attorney’s office asked the group “to hold on to the information while they completed their investigation.” But the District Attorney’s office quickly denied that account, even declaring that HSUS refused to make its undercover spy available to investigators if the USDA were present at those meetings. Ultimately, HSUS chose to release its video footage at a more politically opportune time, as it prepared to launch a livestock-related ballot campaign in California. Meanwhile, meat from the slaughterhouse continued to flow into the U.S. food supply for months.
http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/2009/03/7-things-you-didnt-know-about-humane.html
I live Best Freidns out of Utah. After Katrina I donated to Best Friends, ASPCA and Humane Society because they were all helping pups and cats abandonded in New Orleans. Best Friends did the best job followed by ASPCA.
Sean Penn was there helping with his shot gun too. What a clown.
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PTA
PBS
Same with my wife and I, and we agree with you about ‘Best Friends’.
That said, on the local level the Humane Society is doing a great job here in my county of Ohio.
Then again, my wife is on the Board of Directors since last year.
HSUS in MA got Dog Racing banned. Next up is Horse Racing. Then the private ridership of horses.
PING!
The local Humane Society also does a good job. Actually 2 local HS. I think on a local level they do good works. At the national level probably not.
Doubt that last one will occur. I have no problem getting rid of dog or horse racing, for the simple reason I’ve been around both in my life, and know the abuse is ongoing in both, and very very real.
Thas how I see it.
Cat Racing!
PLEASE be aware that HSUS is for animal RIGHTS not animal WELFARE.
They do not give a damn about savings animals lives unless they can slant an incident and use it to further their agenda.
EQUALLY IMPORTANT! HSUS is NOT connected to your local humane society! HSUS INTENTIONALLY puts the words “humane society” on their name so the public would confuse them with local legitimate humane societies and the good works they do.
The ultimate goal of HSUS is a petless society and they believe animals have the same rights as humans and should be able to sue humans.
Due your DUE DILIGENCE before you donate funds to a pet shelter! You will discover your local pet adoption society DESPISES HSUS!
What about cat ranching?
Would you happen to have the sources you used to compile this information? Not that I believe the HSUS is an above-board organization — I used to be a regular benefactor, but ended my giving in 2000 after finding out about the animal shelter situation you outlined in #1.
Best Friends is truly a worthy organization. I had the pleasure of visiting in 2007.
I see it every time the dogs want to have some fun with our cat.
He usually wins, but when he doesn’t we know by the dog yelp....(chuckle)
Does Best Friends have a website or address so that they can be contacted?
Thank you.
HSUS is a small step up from PETA. The local shelter does wonderful work - but they are not HSUS. I only found out this year that HSUS doesn’t operate & fund the local shelters. My mistake for ever giving them a penny, since none of it went where I thought it was going!
Anybody can herd cattle. Holding together ten thousand half wild short hairs - that's another thing altogether.
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