Prepare yourself for some heavy reading... I promise, promise, PROMISE that I will have an entertaining story posted next, but today we must ask the question: Could there be an animal welfare group on our side?
Animal welfare is defined as the viewpoint that animals, especially those under human care, should not suffer unneccessarily. While animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the viewpoint that all animals should have the same rights as humans.
Animal welfare groups believe that the animal rights movement has gone too far. The National Animal Interest Alliance, an animal welfare groups, makes a solid point about the animal rights group, Humane Society of the United States.
The NAIA is known as one of the most prominent critics of the HSUS. We wear that label with honor, many of our members believing HSUS is corrupt to the bone. First, HSUS allows its financial supporters - ordinary, animal-loving Americans - to believe it spends an enormous annual tax-free budget of $123 million on caring for animals, when its real agenda is passing extremist legislation.
Second, HSUS calls itself a mainstream advocacy group, hiding or downplaying the fact that it has an extremist agenda. HSUS is all about promoting vegan diets - no meat, no dairy - and ending traditional human-animal relationships across the board, from agriculture to biomedical research.
Third, HSUS constantly engages in deceptive propaganda, half-truths and outright lies in well-funded media campaigns to win its political and legislative battles. But they are not held accountable for their tactics because they are a nonprofit group that enjoys political free speech protections. Link HERE to read the rest of the article...I promise it will be worth your time!
So what does the National Animal Interest Alliance stand for? Here is a small snippet from their website... NAIA believes that livestock agriculture is beneficial to society and to the animals when they are raised in accordance with established humane animal husbandry practices.Modern American agricultural methods supply us with an unprecedented bounty of quality meat, eggs and dairy products and with leather, wool, furs, and myriad items derived from animal byproducts. The vast majority of Americans enjoy these products as part of a well-balanced diet or lifestyle, and developing countries look to US agriculture to help them overcome the devastating problems of malnutrition, starvation, and economic hardship that plague their nations. Link HERE to read their stance on American agriculture.
So while I'm not 100% on NAIA, either way, friend or foe, they have one thing right: The Humane Society of the United States must be stopped! (Click HERE to see the HSUS' hidden agenda.)
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Why does the NAIA hate animal-rights groups? Just take a look at the people on its board of directors -- all people who make money from animals.
Posted by TracyH | October 18, 2007 2:40 PM
Posted on October 18, 2007 14:40
I live on a working farm. At one time we raised cattle, goats, horses and pigs along with the chickens, ducks and turkeys. We need working farm dogs here. I like to adopt animals in need of a good home and I've never met a dog I couldn't train. According to HSUS I cannot provide a good home for dogs because 1) I don't keep dogs leashed when they're outside. Want to see someone's face turn red? Tell them that not only do you not leash dogs, your dogs don't wear collars. They don't wear collars because it's dangerous, so dangerous that dogs could be killed. One ticked off cow with horns can do a lot of damage with her horn stuck in that collar. Legally, working dogs in Maine do not have to wear collars. I know this because my husband is the ACO in our town. 2) I don't have a fenced in yard for the dogs. They have free range of our 45 acres. Try fencing in 45 acres in the Maine wilderness. If the uneven ground, boulders and natural springs don't make this job difficult, the moose that don't understand fencing will do you in.
3) My dogs are outside unaccompanied by an adult. They spend hours herding, hunting for pests, chasing predators away, and sometimes sleeping on the back porch - without me. 4) Vet records? Pfffft.... I'll give you a rabies vaccine certificate but you're gonna have to believe the stickies that come with the vials of other vaccines. Vet? No...I do them myself. And for the cats too. No, I don't have a degree. Yes, I can give shots. No, I can't have a dog? mmmm....didn't think so. Fit to be the ACO according to the laws of the state of Maine but not fit to adopt a working dog so that it can live the rest of its life doing what it's meant to do - work, and sleep on the back porch untethered.
The HSUS is evil.
Posted by Robin | October 18, 2007 6:34 PM
Posted on October 18, 2007 18:34
Tracy,
The point of my whole essay wasn't to put a halo over NAIA, but to point out that atleast they recognize how dangerous HSUS is to animal/human relationships.
Also, thanks Robin for your comment. Farm dogs are a necessity, and it seems almost comical to follow the rules they want us to play by.
How about we bring HSUS to help sort cows, fix fence, or feed calves in a blizzard?
Do you guys get snow like we do?
Posted by Amanda Nolz | October 19, 2007 1:43 PM
Posted on October 19, 2007 13:43