Humane Society Gives Only Small Amount of Budget to Shelters
WASHINGTON – According to new research from the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) contributed less than four percent of its $91.5 million budget to hands-on dog and cat shelters in 2007. CCF is criticizing the nation’s largest animal rights group for not doing more to help hard-working local humane societies, calling HSUS’s name "misleading."
According to its most recent tax return (filed on November 14, 2008), HSUS contributed about $3.1 million of its $91.5 million operating budget to hands-on pet shelters. CCF performed an exhaustive audit of HSUS’s giving last month.
CCF Director of Research David Martosko expressed a growing sentiment among animal lovers that the Humane Society isn’t living up to its name: "Pet lovers donated over $85 million to HSUS in 2007, but only a tiny sliver of that went to helping homeless dogs and cats.
That’s nothing compared to what HSUS spends hassling hunters, complaining about circus elephants, and trying to remove meat and dairy foods from the American diet."
This news comes at a critical time for HSUS, which has been trying to rally support for its radical dog breeding legislation in more than two dozen states.
Martosko continued: "HSUS is telling Americans how hard it is for local shelters to stay open in this economic climate. But it’s taking their donations straight to the bank. More Americans need to understand that the Humane Society of the United States is not an umbrella group for local humane societies. But the hard-working professionals and all the homeless pets in those shelters could certainly use one – especially now."
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This wouldn't happen to have anything to do with all of HSUS puppy mill , factory farm and animal poison lab hell hole expose's lately? I notice in the last few years the "responsible breeding" community and the "responsible animal poisoning community" and the "responsible slaughter community", really seem to have their noses up the rear of CCF . They enthusiastically flock to the boards to whine and tear up about the "poor puppies" !
Oooooo HSUS and PETA are soooo mean! Why don't they leave us alone!!!
It's disgusting, these shills whining about "the shelters" while they suck up to the puppy mill slime and rake in millions keeping their animal hell holes chugging along... destroying health, animals and the environment .... CCF should be shut down by the IRS for impersonating a "non-profit" and banned from the internet .. Who ever heard of a "consumers group" funded by billion dollar corporations like Tysons Food, Cargill, Monsanto, Phillip Morris, Dean Foods, Wendy's and Outback Steakhouse?
OMG, Somebody ordered the spinach lasagna instead of a McDonald's torture burger! How dare those ACTIVISTS talk about my BIG MAC that way ... MY RIGHTS ARE BEING INFRINGED UPON! 10 billion land animals killed for food every year in the U.S. (over a million an hour) AND THEIR STILL NOT SATISFIED! How blood thirsty can you get?
If your corporate slug employers didn't spend 24/7 brutalizing animals, people and the planet, we wouldn't need animal and human rights advocates.
Tyson has been brutalizing both it's animals and employees for decades... It's been videotaped, and sworn to in signed affidavit by employees, that cows are regularly gutted and skinned alive... still kicking, struggling (and sometimes injuring the not much better off employees in the process). Employees which Tyson has beat up on and attacked while on strike for better or at least safer, working conditions ...
Monsanto and its dog poisoning labs like Huntingdon Life Sciences, kill 500 animals day... but you had better not be concerned about it or else you might be accused by CCF of having the dreaded ANIMAL RIGHTS AGENDA! Their sugar daddy, Phillip Morris , started them off with the initial funding... Phillip Morris, whose testing laboratory Covance is the largest importer of primates in the U.S. and the world's largest breeder of laboratory dogs. The way they torture these poor animals over tobacco and toxins, is enough to make your blood run cold...
92 % of all animal testing fails human trials, according to the FDA in 2004... It's done for purely legal and financial reasons...(and because that way, company's like Monsanto can PROVE that their poisons and chemicals are SAFE (until they kill enough people to take them off the market)... Ever wonder why no drugs are ever around for more than 10 or 20 years? If it weren't for Covance Laboratories tobacco would have had labels in the 50's...
But Richard Berman and David Martosko only want to protect the defenseless consumer against rabid vegetarians!
THEY CARE ABOUT PEOPLE!!! That's why when they're not slandering animal and health activists... They're busy trying to make sure their billionaire, sociopath employers don't have to raise minimum wage a penny... or contribute a nickle to work men's comp when their employees get sliced open or fall into manure pits... I think most people would puke their guts out if they had to visit one of YOUR CLIENT's HELL HOLES.. But isn't that the real problem? Not radicals or VEGETARIANS trying to force their values on you... But exposure...
What a happy day when that bloated sociopath David Martosko keels over from a Wendy's induced coronary... Until then, his sugar daddy's and mommy's are cackling all the way to the bank. No less than 8 members of the Cargill-MacMillan meat packing family are Forbes 400 Richest Americans.
Cargill MacMillan, Jr. - net worth 4.3 billion.
Whitney MacMillan - 4.3 billion
Marion MacMillan Pictet - 4.3 billion
Pauline MacMillan Keinath - - 4.3 billion
James R. Cargill, II - 1.6 billion
Mary Janet Morse Cargill - $1.6 billion
Marianne Cargill Liebmann - $1.6 billion
Austen S. Cargill, II - 1.3 billion
400 Richest Americans - Forbes 2009
CEO Don Tyson was paid $20.9 million in 2003. When his company was demanding wage and benefit cuts from impoverished meat packing workers, his annual compensation nearly tripled. He is worth one billion dollars and growing. Don Tyson has paid over $2 million in SEC fines for misleading disclosure of personal benefits.
Eric Schlosser Tyson's Moral Anchor, The Nation, June 24, 2004
400 Richest Americans - Forbes 2009
Wendy's/Arby's Group annual salaries
Roland C. Smith - CEO - 3.22 Millon
J. David Karam - CEO - Wendy's - 2.12 M
Stephen E. Hare - CFO - 1.29 M
Nils H. Okeson - General Counsel - 1.06 M
Sharon Barton - Chief Admin Officer - 1.23 M
Wendy's/Arby's Group, Yahoo Finance 2009
Wow, looks like they've managed to sock away a few bucks paying their employees minimum wage!
This is an incredibly poor "argument." Why should we assume that hands-on shelter work is the only way or even the most effective way to help animals ? Imagine the absurdity of someone arguing that the only way to help children was to give to orphanges and criticizing organizations working to help children in other ways. Is Feed The Children discredited if they focus their work on providing children with food and medicine instead of running orphanges?
If not, why should HSUS be discredited for helping animals by working against the slaughter and abuse of animals?
Of course supporting orphanages can be a good way to help children, as supporting animal shelters can be a good way to help animals, but it is silly to think that these are the only ways to help. It is even sillier to use this as an argument against working on hunting, circus, dog breeding, or factory farm issues, which is obviously one of the intentions.
It has been my experience that organizations like CCF function primarily by using ad hominem attacks, overblown rhetoric, and other fallacious arguments to discredit their opponents or anyone who wants to ask difficult questions about the practices of the companies they represent.
THE H$U$ could use those millions to help all the dogs/cats that are being euthanized-- but they don't.... I have to ask WHY?? Do you know the good they could do with 100 million dollars??? Disgusting....
The HSUS does a lot more than you think for local animal shelters and humane societies.
Just go to The HSUS website and see for yourself. There's a full list of ways they are helping right here: http://www.hsus.org/pets/animal_shelters/what_the_hsus_does_for_shelters /
It seems to me that to go to the website of the HSUS for proof of their work seems assinine to me. Why would they not put up positive statements about their work. I give to both the HSUS and the local HS's...I would like to know that my money is going at least strongly toward the care of animals in my own community.
If the website DIDN'T give a list of the ways they are helping, you'd wonder even more about them. How does that prove they aren't spending their money wisely? This isn't the first time I've heard and read about their usage (misuse) of the money they receive from donations .
Charges that the Humane Society of the United States doesn't support the animal sheltering community is a favorite attack of the so-called Center for Consumer Freedom, an industry front group for tobacco, alcohol , and agribusiness interests that routinely takes aim at organizations promoting food safety , public health , or animal welfare . The timing of this criticism is ironic, given that this week the HSUS is hosting its annual Animal Care Expo for approximately 1,600 animal care & control professionals. In addition, the HSUS publishes an award-winning bi-monthly trade magazine for animal shelter staff, provides targeted grants, online professional development training, and many other resources. The work of the HSUS has always been about advocating for animals at a national level, which is a complementary but very distinct mission from that of local animal shelters.
Perhaps you are right....show us the stats and that will solve the issue....The bottom line is always the correct answer...