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03-21-2009 12:15 AM |
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An Introduction To
The Animal Rights Agenda
HSUS and PETA masquerade as organizations concerned with the welfare of animals, but in fact their agendas are to eliminate all relationships between humans and animals. They use the terms "animal rights" and "animal welfare" interchangeably to promote their radical objectives.
PETA, in 2007, euthanized 97% of the animals they claimed they were "rescuing" from legitimate animal shelters. They did so in order to "liberate" them from "enslavement" they would be subjected to if they were taken in by humans who value the companionship of animals as pets.
HSUS does not operate a single animal shelter. None. Local humane societies are not funded by HSUS. Very little of the money given to this group has been used for the welfare of animals. Millions of dollars donated to H$U$ for the care of animals that could not be taken to safety with their families following Hurricane Katrina were diverted to its lobbying activities, and this is the subject of current investigations.
H$U$ spends tens of millions of dollars annually promoting the notion that there is a huge population of companion animals roaming unchecked in virtually every city and township and rural county in the nation, and uses this myth as justification for seeking the passage of laws to restrict animal ownership. They state that some 3 million dogs and cats are euthanized each year by animal shelters because "homes can't be found for them" due to the fact that many people who want a pet choose to buy a dog or cat of a particular breed (or age or sex or size or temperament). They fail to mention that the euthanization statistics include feral cats, ill and/or aged animals brought to shelters by owners who have decided a humane death is the last kindness they can give a beloved pet, and dogs surrendered to shelters specifically because of temperament issues that make them unsuitable as family pets. If it were true that all of these 3 million animals could have been appropriately re-homed if people did not buy puppies and kittens from people who breed them, there would be no need for animal shelters to import puppies from other countries to satisfy the demand for "adoptable" animals.
If PETA and H$U$ were truly concerned with actual animal welfare issues, they would be urging budget increases for the agencies charged with enforcing existing animal cruelty laws. There ARE abused and neglected animals, and those who mistreat animals are in violation of regulatory laws that are already on the books in every state. Rather than encouraging that these laws be effectively enforced, they seek to have laws enacted that severely restrict, and will eventually end, ownership of all animal species. This is NOT an "animal welfare" goal, and only a tiny fragment of the vast amounts donated to PETA and H$U$ in the name of "animal welfare" is used to improve the well-being of domestic animals.
The vast majority of the money given to these groups by well-meaning animal lovers is used for political action, including lobbying for anti-animal ownership laws and campaign contributions to candidates who support their agendas.
From Wayne Pacelle (President) The HSUS
“We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.” (Animal Rights Convention, July 1, 2002)
“Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as cock fighting and dog fighting.” (Bozeman (MT) Daily Chronicle, October 8, 1991)
When asked if he envisioned a future without pets, “If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don’t want to see another dog or cat born.” (quoted in Bloodties: Nature, Culture and the Hunt by Ted Kerasote, 1993).
“We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding. One generation and out. We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding." (Animal People, May, 1993)
PETA, Ingrid Newkirk (President)
“There’s no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They’re all animals.” (Washingtonian magazine, August 1, 1986)
“Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.” (Harper's, August 1, 1988)
“The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats........If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.” (May 1, 1993)
“There is no hidden agenda…Our goal is total animal liberation.” (Animal Rights Convention, June 30, 2002)
"[A]s the surplus of cats and dogs (artificially engineered by centuries of forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship--enjoyment at a distance." ("Just Like Us? Toward a Notion of Animal Rights", Harper's, August 1988).
Other leaders in the Animal Rights movement
"My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture." JP Goodwin, employed at the Humane Society of the US, formerly at Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade
"Our goal is to make [the public think of] breeding [dogs and cats] like drunk driving and smoking." Kim Sturla, former director of the Peninsula Humane Society and Western Director of Fund for Animals, stated during “Kill the Crisis, not the Animals” campaign and workshops 1991
"Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles--from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave it." "The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the domestic cat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist." John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of a Changing Ethic (Washington, DC: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, 1982)96.
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