The Humane Society of the United States
“I
don’t have a hands-on fondness for animals…To this day I don’t feel bonded to
any non-human animal. I like them and I pet them and I’m kind to them, but
there’s no special bond between me and other animals.”—
Wayne
Pacelle,
HSUS President,
quoted in
‘Bloodties’ by Ted Kerasote, 1993, p. 251
Despite its innocent-sounding name, the Humane Society of the United States does
not own or operate one single animal shelter, nor does it directly care for any
animals. Relying on the fact that the general public will mistake it (and 94%
do) for the e e e American Humane Society, which does operate shelters, it
further capitalizes on this lack of awareness by publishing manuals on how to
start, fund and run an animal shelter, how to euthanize animals; and has made
itself the authoritative source on inspecting and training animal shelters and
their staff—and nobody has bothered to question how they can be expert at
something they themselves don’t even do!
But what they do, (and do it extremely well), is raise money.
$100 million a year. How much of it do they actually spend on the animals they
claim to be saving? Well, in 2002 it was a paltry $150,000 (1.5% of their
revenue). So, where does the money really go? That’s a question Louisiana’s
Attorney General is asking, wanting to know what HSUS did with the $32 million
in special donations it received as a direct result of its campaign to help
rescue animals caught in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina—because it sure
didn’t spend it rescuing pets in Louisiana!
An examination of their books shows exactly where it’s gone for
many years. To fund what Wayne Pacelle claimed he was going to build: ‘the N.R.A.
of the Animal Rights Movement’. It’s gone into the pockets and campaign chests
of politicians, and into raising more and more money from unsuspecting American
citizens who honestly believe they are rescuing unwanted pets and improving the
lives of animals.
And who do you think was the #1 ‘expert’ that helped write Louisville’s new Anti-Pet law? The same organization that has capitalized on its “victory” in Louisville and is now invading the halls for Frankfort to take their agenda statewide: the HSUS.S.S.S.
http://brianoconnor.typepad.com/animal_crackers/2004/09/overview_of_hum.html
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/136
http://www.thehiddenenemy.com/
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
PeTA has long-standing ties to militant groups like the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). The FBI calls these criminal groups a "serious domestic terrorist threat."
On June
15, 2005, North Carolina police arrested two PeTA employees after they tossed
trash bags containing the bodies of 18 dead pets into a shopping-center
dumpster, after previously finding dead animals in the same dumpster. Police
also recovered 13 additional dead animals from the PeTA-owned van in which the
two were traveling, bringing the total body count to 93. Witnesses from the
Ahoskie Animal Hospital and the Bertie County Animal Shelter confirmed the two
had collected the animals with the promise that PeTA would take them back to
Virginia and find them adoptive homes.
“…
We
thought
we
had an organization that was helping us to try to find homes for them … That was
the goal, not to have that [euthanasia] happen. We had been told by PeTA that,
yes, they would try to find homes for them." -- Dr. Patrick Proctor DVM,
testifying in the trial against the PeTA employees who took healthy cats from
his clinic, only to kill them while their van idled in the animal shelter
parking lot a short time later.
Shocked? Don’t be. Not counting the dogs and cats PeTA spayed and neutered,
the group put to death over 90 percent of the animals it took in during 2005
alone, a figure far in excess of the worst-run animal shelters anywhere in the
nation.
Time-Line of Terrorism
FBI Testimony on Eco-Terrorism
A sister group misleadingly called the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has duped the press into believing that it is an association of conscientious doctors promoting good nutrition. In fact, it is a PeTA front group and the two organizations share money, offices, and staff.
Taking a page out of PeTA's press book, PCRM has denounced U.S. school lunches as "weapons of mass destruction" because they include meat and milk. PCRM's president, a psychiatrist named Neal Barnard, recently hoodwinked Newsweek into covering his "study" (of seven people!) supposedly demonstrating that a vegan diet helped prevent type-2 diabetes. In 2002, PCRM was cited in major newspapers more than 550 times and was identified as an animal-rights organization in only a handful of those cases. One of the major sources of the “junk science” both PeTA and HSUS use to justify their radical ideology, PCRM has earned the scorn of the American Medical Association, which calls it a "pseudo-physicians group," and has demanded that PCRM stop its "inappropriate and unethical tactics used to manipulate public opinion," arguing that it has been "blatantly misleading Americans" and "concealing its true purpose as an animal 'rights' organization."
PeTA is willing to violate its own sacraments by destroying healthy animals simply because it’s a cheaper solution than finding them homes, manufacture medical studies to suit their needs, fund terrorists and even interpret Bible scripture to justify their ends—just how ‘ethical’ is that?
To learn more about PeTA; its history, agenda, finances and politics check these links:
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/ads.cfm
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/21
http://www.netcat.org/trojan.html
http://brianoconnor.typepad.com/animal_crackers/2005/06/so_peta_has_muc.html