My video of the Carrie Underwood Walkout, which I posted last week, has received quite interesting comments recently. I shared a few with you in one of my most recent entries; however, the one I received yesterday is worth discussing.
Cloudbug9 tells me...
What a silly girl this Amanda is. The Humane Society's main goal is to spade and neuter animals. What a joke. There was no massive walkout. A Few people leaving a show because they don't know the facts. Silly.
What's silly is to think that the Humane Society of the United States actually works to help pets! In fact, they would prefer that animals were completely liberated, severing relationships between animals and humans. Let's recap some of their most dirty deeds:
1. HSUS has accumulated $113 million in assets and built a recognizable brand by capitalizing on the confusion its very name provokes. This misdirection results in an irony of which most animal lovers are unaware: HSUS raises enough money to finance animal shelters in every single state, with money to spare, yet it doesn’t operate a single one anywhere.
2. Despite the words “humane society” on its letterhead, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is not affiliated with your local animal shelter. Despite the omnipresent dogs and cats in its fundraising materials, it’s not an organization that runs spay/neuter programs or takes in stray, neglected, and abused pets.
3.HSUS spends millions on programs that seek to economically cripple meat and dairy producers; eliminate the use of animals in biomedical research labs; phase out pet breeding, zoos, and circus animal acts; and demonize hunters as crazed lunatics. HSUS spends $2 million each year on travel expenses alone, just keeping its multi-national agenda going.
4.HSUS’s new “campaigns section,” Pacelle wrote, “will focus on farm animals.” For Americans accustomed to eating meat, eggs, and dairy foods, the thought of an animal rights group with a budget three times the size of PETA’s targeting their food choices should be unsettling.
5. HSUS has learned that pouring huge sums of money into ballot initiative campaigns can give it results normal public relations and lobbying work never could.HSUS scored a big victory in Florida in 2002 when a ballot initiative passed that gave constitutional rights to pregnant pigs. Florida farmers were banned from using “gestation crates,” usually necessary to keep sows healthy during pregnancy and to prevent them from accidentally rolling over and crushing their newborn piglets. After this amendment passed, raising pigs became economically unsustainable, and farmers were forced to slaughter their animals rather than comply with the costly new constitutional requirements.
6.They plan to extend these legislative wins to huge agricultural states. HSUS’s four-year Iowa campaign, misleadingly called “Care4Iowa,” has a stated goal of promoting the so-called “humane” methods of livestock production which universally result in greater costs for farmers and higher prices for consumers.
Thanks for allowing my soapbox this morning. If you want to learn more, link here.
Oh and don't forget to come back later today and check out my radio interview with Michigan Dairy Producer, Melissa Hart. After responding to a Why Go Veg? article, Melissa is going to help me continue with my series, Why Eat Beef? with her own Why Drink Milk? Don't miss it!
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