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
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I’m sure you can make up your own mind...
The information on your site is totally immaterial relative to the present facts of what HSUS is REALLY doing.
I would also question the veracity of it as well as the author’s agenda.
But again, it is a moot point given that HSUS is a complete sham.
I agree, and I’m sure most Freepers who go to the link will see through the BS. Exposing the agenda of Berman doesn’t necessarily discount the infomation he has provided on HSUS, assuming they are facts. But as I said previously, I believe in “Full disclosure” and allowing people to make up their own minds.
It’s not the moms or kids - it’s the national organization. Nothing more than a union (NEA) auxilliary.
Ahhh, I see. Thanks.
My mistake for ever giving them a penny,
I give a small amount every month so am open to suggestions as to the most effective in caring for homeless dogs.
I have been sending $ to HSUS for a long time not realising that they don’t really have hands on care for dogs.
Follow the money. The National PTA takes $3.00 or close to it from every membership to a school PTA. Go to their website to read about the things they support and don’t support. They are remarkably similar to the NEA. Our oldest children first attended school where there was no PTA. They had a PATT. (parents and teachers together) When we moved, the next school had another name for their parent organization. We joined both of those organizations. It cost around $2.00 for membership. All dues stayed at the school. Then we moved again and had to deal with the PTA. They wanted $5.00/parent/child. We had four children in school at the time, and they wanted us to purchase a membership four times in order for them to say that each of our children had a supporting parent. I thought that was crazy, so I started looking into the National PTA and the nonsense behind it. I refused to give a dime to the national organization ever since. I did participate in school activities and volunteer to do things at the school.
FYI - There’s a show on Natl. Geographic - DOG TOWN. They took several Vick dogs and rehabbed them. I love that show. They rehab dogs and find them good adoptive homes once they’re recovered.
Catch the show which usually airs after the Dog Whisperer.
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