Jolley: High Fiving Yvonne Vizzier Thaxton's Commentaries On The AAVMC/HSUS Union

Read: "Inhumane Wayne"
http://onenationunderdog.blogspot.com/2007/05/hu-inhumane-wayne.html

and: Humane Society of the United States? What’s so Humane about this?
http://onenationunderdog.blogspot.com/2007/05/hu-we-have-no-etical-obligation.html

Interesting that dangerous breed laws has killed more large breed dogs this year, many being shot on sight and not all were considered dangerous breeds. Oops! There were a few Labs lost in the dog hunt. Seems cruel to me. More dogs have undergone spay and neuter by law, but it is cruel to hush a dog's bark so they can remain with their owner. Dogs do bark and some breeds more than others. Convenient that laws came forth regarding cruel surgery to hush the bark and then comes the laws for a barking dog is a neusience and punishable by death....yes, cruel.

One can only ask has animal rights gone way, way toooooo far?

We have yet to talk about how asset forefeiture is being used. Hang on to those Angus and your Rhode Island Reds - they are in line eventually.
JC

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. And despite the common image of animal protection agencies as cash-strapped organizations dedicated to animal welfare, HSUS has become the wealthiest animal rights organization on earth.
HSUS is big, rich, and powerful, a “humane society” in name only. And while most local animal shelters are under-funded and unsung, 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.
Instead, 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.
HSUS president Wayne Pacelle described some of his goals in 2004 for The Washington Post: “We will see the end of wild animals in circus acts … [and we’re] phasing out animals used in research. Hunting? I think you will see a steady decline in numbers.” More recently, in a June 2005 interview, Pacelle told Satya magazine that HSUS is working on “a guide to vegetarian eating, to really make the case for it.” A strict vegan himself, Pacelle added: “Reducing meat consumption can be a tremendous benefit to animals.”
Shortly after Pacelle joined HSUS in 1994, he told Animal People (an inside-the-movement watchdog newspaper) that his goal was to build “a National Rifle Association of the animal rights movement.” And now, as the organization’s leader, he’s in a position to back up his rhetoric with action. In 2005 Pacelle announced the formation of a new “Animal Protection Litigation Section” within HSUS, dedicated to “the process of researching, preparing, and prosecuting animal protection lawsuits in state and federal court.”
HSUS’s current goals have little to do with animal shelters. The group has taken aim at the traditional morning meal of bacon and eggs with a tasteless “Breakfast of Cruelty” campaign. Its newspaper op-eds demand that consumers “help make this a more humane world [by] reducing our consumption of meat and egg products.” Since its inception, HSUS has tried to limit the choices of American consumers, opposing dog breeding, conventional livestock and poultry farming, rodeos, circuses, horse racing, and marine aquariums. There is an enormous difference between animal “welfare” organizations, which work for the humane treatment of animals, and animal “rights” organizations, which aim to completely end the use and ownership of animals. The former have been around for centuries; the latter emerged in the 1980s, with the rise of the radical People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). It takes tens of millions of dollars to run campaigns against so many domestic targets, and HSUS consistently misleads Americans with its fundraising efforts by hinting that it’s a “humane society” in the more conventional sense of the term. Buried deep within HSUS’s website is a disclaimer noting that the group “is not affiliated with, nor is it a parent organization for, local humane societies, animal shelters, or animal care and control agencies. These are independent organizations … HSUS does not operate or have direct control over any animal shelter.”
What they really want is an end to following professions, veternary medicine, livestock ranching, rodeos, dog shows, eating meat, butcher shops, grocery stores that sell meat, hunting, dairy farming, animal companionship, guide dogs, theraphy dogs, search and rescue dogs, police dogs, army dogs, any and all relationships with animals, also the end of zoos and all animal conservation programs.