Humane Society Becoming More Like the Animal Liberation Front
Last night in Los Angeles, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) president Wayne Pacelle showed why he’s been able to turn a group that sounds
as if it’s all about protecting puppies and kittens into an
animal-rights lobbying force with talons. He’s looking to sink those
talons into people who have the audacity to eat or sell meat, wear
leather, go to circuses, or enjoy hunting and fishing – in other words,
99 percent of America.
In front of a hand-picked crowd of HSUS supporters who attended last night’s “town hall meeting” at the Ebell of Los Angeles, Pacelle rallied the troops with a fight song:
"We have to create a clamor for change ... You can get further with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone."
He attributed the latter quote to notorious gangster Al Capone, who
seems like an odd inspiration for a supposedly peaceful movement. But animal-rights extremists are far from peaceful.
One of Pacelle’s own staffers, Josh Balk, told the HSUS-sponsored
“Taking Action For Animals” that “there are very few instances that
companies just refuse to move with a friendly conversation … The
animals can’t wait for people to come to a revelation themselves.
Sometimes it does take force.”
HSUS sounds more and more like PETA and the terrorist Animal Liberation Front every day.
It’s been well documented that HSUS spends only a tiny fraction – less than four percent – of its budget directly funding animal shelters.
If you’re wondering how it spends the other roughly $100 million in its
budget every year, you might consider the cost of renting out the posh Wilshire Ebell Theatre,
providing the supporters-only crowd with a catered coffee service, and
hiring four burly security guards to keep out the riff-raff.
Sorry, Wayne. We got in anyway.
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has the humane society recommended FLU vaccines to people?
Are the Eggs used from free range chickens?
Do the Eggs Used have the possibility of creating a life?
I just happened to see the chickens in cages on the article's photo.
And thought about the flu shots and my minor allergy to eggs.
In that few moments I tied chicken cruelty to the creation off flu shots and now wonder if being a vegetarian / animal rights means
that a vegetarian/animal right's person should not get certain vaccines that deal with the need of animals to create them?
I doubt an animal group would be making medical recommendations for people though.
I am vegan but I am not an HSUS supporter. However, I think this article is twisting the comments made by Mr. Pacelle and Mr. Balk.
"We have to create a clamor for change ... You can get further with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone."
I dont think Pacelle is arguing that we go out and destroy the property of institutional animal users or gun them all down. I think he's speaking about using more force of LEGAL ACTION against them. (ie. campaigning for welfare reform)
"The animals can’t wait for people to come to a revelation themselves. Sometimes it does take force.”
If HSUS took all of the time and money that they spend campaigning for more "humane" forms of animal exploitation, and put it into VEGAN EDUCATION (teaching people why they shouldn't eat animal products at all, rather than teaching them that if they dont want to go vegan, its okay because you can be morally superior by eating "humane" animal foods) than a human revelation wouldn't seem so far away.
Of course we can't wait for people to come to a revelation by "THEMSELVES"... this is why education is so so important.
Taking "force" and shutting down the operation of an institutional user (whether through violent or legal means) is gonna do jack for animals. So long as the DEMAND for the product is there, then it will simply move elsewhere to another institutional user... and so on.
We have to change the minds of the consumers!
www.abolitionistapproach.com
More lies from animal rights zealots. Methane gas makes up worldwide only 7.9% of the total of greenhouse gases with fossil fuels and co2 being the most prominent. Livestock make up less than 17% of the total of methane gas which works out to less than 1.% contribution to all greenhouse gas . The largest contributor to methane production comes from rice paddies, tropical forrests, and wet lands along with soybean production for tofu and soy milk the main substitutes for protein in the vegan diet . The slash and burn monocrop of soybean in Brazil alone creates more methane than any other source. Plants release more methane than any other form with rice paddys, wetlands, and crop burning being the most potent. You need to read "Plants release methane, a potent greenhouse gas", in this study by the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics the researchers made a surprising discovery that plants release 10 to 30 percent of the world’s methane not livestock. This surprising discovery that plants release methane, a greenhouse gas goes against all previous assumptions. In terms of total amount of production worldwide, the scientists' first guesses are between 60 and 240 million tonnes of methane per year. That means that about 10 to 30 percent of present annual methane production comes from plants. The largest portion of that - about two-thirds - originates from tropical areas, because that is where the most biomass is located. The evidence of direct methane emissions from plants also explains the unexpectedly high methane concentrations over tropical forests, measured only recently via satellite by a research group from the University of Heidelberg. Carbon dioxide is the most important gas to consider and it comes from fossel fuel production. Instead of worrying about the 7.9% solutions to global warming we should be worrying about the other 92.1% of the greenhouse gases. This misinformation coming from HSUS and PeTA is very dangerous to stopping green house gas emissions. The focus should be on C02 not cows. By the way methane gas production in cows has been bred out and grass fed cows don't pollute. So, quit lying to the public about methane gas. It doesn't even stay in the atmosphere very long whereas C02 does. Wayne has made it very clear in all of his speeches that his organization is about ending the use of all animals . He wants to see the day when there are no more domestic animals. He does not think they have the right to live on this earth and all of his lobbying efforts go to ending their lives, not protecting them. They are out of the closet and you can no longer pretend this is about animal welfare anymore. Guess why the vaccine production is held up, no more eggs being produced in California. It takes three eggs to produce one dose and thanks to Senator Dean Florez and HSUS the egg producers for vaccine production where put out of business with proposition 2 in California. These idiots know nothing about farming, but they do know a lot about lying to get money from the public. Note the German High Court found PeTA guilty of faking videos and of actually paying people to skin animals alive for their fake videos. Both HSUS and PeTA have killed more animals than they have even remotely saved and by just being in business they have prevented all of your donations from truly helping animals in shelters find homes. Why do they always fight so hard against no kill shelters if they are for the animals. This is a cult and they want to control your lives.
"More lies from animal rights zealots. Methane gas makes up worldwide only 7.9% of the total of greenhouse gases with fossil fuels and co2 being the most prominent"
Actually Water Vapor is by far the most prominent Greenhouse Gas, between 66% and 85% when factoring in clouds.
We cannot do anything about the evaporation of water , but we can do something about fossil fuels and instead of focusing on animals which contribute so little to methane we should instead focus on fossil fuesl and alternative energy sources. But animal rights zealots are using fear to fuel their agenda which is to end the use of all animals which if you cannot have meat to eat biologically you will be harming the human race . We are omnivores biologically and just choosing to not eat meat will in the long run do irreparable harm to your internal organs. This is what we are seeing now from the strict vegans in medicine .
I wasn't disagreeing with your premise just your numbers. If you're going to use statistics try to be accurate or people won't take you seriously. Personally because there is so much more water vapor than there is CO2 I tend to doubt that CO2 is as much a factor in global warming as we are led to believe. There isn't much difference between the animal rights zealots and the environmental zealots. Both tend to exaggerate, bend the truth and push the worse possible case scenario.
...yeah, methane is a minor component. You are forgetting about all the CO2 caused by the food for the animals , the slaughter of them, transportation to different farms, slaughter houses, stores, etc.
It all adds up. You can't just consider one component, you have to take the entire production process as a whole to accurately account for its effects.
The EPA studies did take into account the fossil fuels needed to raise livestock. What you fail to take into acccount is that methane can be used as a fuel, but soybean production in Brazil is slash and burn plus the fossil fuels necessary to process this bean and transport it around the world requires substantially more than grass fed livestock or domestic animals . This is not about global warming but about another agenda and that is to end the use of all domestic animals. Food for animals raised organically as we use to do does not cause CO2 in sufficient quantities to warrant not using them, nor does methane gas which does not stay in the atmosphere that long and is part of the atmospheric cycle. What is important is to recognize that plants produce more methane than animals in the great scheme of things. But the real culprit is fossil fuels and to process soybean and move it around the world produces the most CO2 and methane. Eating locally and eating organically reduces fuel consumption except when you take into account all of these people driving around to local farms to pick up their food instead of going to one distribution spot a grocery store to purchase their food. And while they ask for the tofu and soy milk and veggie burgers these items requires massive amounts of fossil fuels to produce and move around the world. They are never locally produced. No the numbers include transport and food. That is the fallacy of the animal rights arguments.
Surely you can't think that there are many people gullible enough to take the information you provide as anything but grossly manipulated and slanted.
I don't agree with HSUS, and I would never blindly accept the information they present, but your FOX News version of reality is, as usual, laughable.