by Bob Linden (goveganradio.com)
‘Tis the season for holiday charitable giving, and with today’s economy – every dollar donated FOR the animals must go TO the animals. This year, please DO NOT donate to what is called the “Humane Society of the United States”, which by the admission of its CEO, Wayne Pacelle, is NOT for animal rights, does NOT promote the vegan lifestyle, is NOT against all hunting, zoos, and circuses, DOES support purchasing dogs from “responsible breeders” (?), DOES support (the impossible) “humane” slaughter, DOES support (the impossible)”certified humane eggs”, promotes veal entrepreneur Wolfgang Puck. HSUS has accepted $50,000 from the Philadelphia Eagles to rehabilitate Michael Vick’s image (after saying Vick’s dogs could not be rehabilitated and should be killed, after accepting million$ saying it would care for Vick’s dogs – even though they were not in its custody), DOES partner with animal experimenting Procter & Gamble and Iams dog food, and botched the Katrina rescue and doesn’t account for half of the donations it received for it.
Unbelievable? Hear it in Pacelle’s own words and own voice in an interview from the Sept 5 broadcast of “GO VEGAN WITH BOB LINDEN”, available and archived at www.GoVeganRadio.com. See below for details, and read what the most respected voices in animal advocacy have to say against the “hu-MAINLY ABOUT THE MONEY” society, its $120,000,000 in annual revenues, its six-figure salaried executives.
There are so many more deserving organizations that really work for the animals.
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Guests: Steven Best (Associate Professor of Philosophy & Humanities, University of Texas, El Paso)
Topics: “Is the Humane Society of the United States Part of the Meat Industry – Or What?“
- a discussion with Steven Best, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Humanities, University of Texas, El Paso, co-editor of “Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals”, author of”Igniting A Revolution: Voices In Defense Of The Earth”, and co-founder of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies”
Dr Best and Bob analyze a recent interview featuring HSUS prez & ceo Wayne Pacelle, and the impact of $120,000,000 in annual donations diverted from grassroots efforts on behalf of animals to a mega-corporation that – by its own admission – does not support animal rights, does not prmote veganism, is not against all hunting and zoos, supports slaughter, aligns itself with the livestock industry and regards it as a noble profession.
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Money Mysteries Part 1: Hurricane Katrina HSUS Fundraising
Published on 05 April 2009 by ESaunders AR-HR.com in Animal Rights, Human Responsibility, Legislation
Its tough times all around, making it difficult not to focus on the idea of money: who has it, how they got it, where they spend it and why. This led me back to the memory of the contraversy surrounding HSUS fundraising for Hurricane Katrina and the inquiry started by the Louisiana State Attorney General.
Although blog entries abound on this topic, I decided to go back to the true information source, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) itself. Upon review of HSUS two year anniversary summary of the use of the funds and of their 2005, 2006 and 2007 income tax records, there appear to be valid questions about the use of the funds donated for the purpose of helping animals affected Hurricane Katrina.
According to the HSUS, $34.6 million was raised for the assistance of Katrina animals. Yet according to 2005 income tax records, the year of Katrina, the HSUS only dispersed $8.6 million in grants for its worldwide grants base including its major grants to Louisiana groups. The worldwide grants distributed in 2005 were only $2 million higher than the levels subsequently seen in 2006 and 2007, despite gross receipts of nearly $124 million and net assets of over $200 million at the end of 2005.
Even by the numbers in the HSUS’ own article, the funds dispersed for the purposes of Katrina related activities total just under $18 million or 52% of the funds. The remaining amount, over $16.5 million dollars cannot be accounted for through HSUS provided documentation through investigation of its tax records.
There can’t be much, if any, activity related to Katrina affected animals stated as the original purpose of the fundraising. If the remaining 48% of the money wasn’t been used for Katrina animals, then what has it been used for? Unfortunately, the inquiry was called off shortly after the announcement of the HSUS championed cockfighting bill being passed into law. As a result, these questions go unanswered and so they will remain.
Copyright 2009 by Erica Saunders http://AR-HR.com
All rights reserved
Read: HSUS Katrina 2 year anniversary article.
See: HSUS 2005, 2006 & 2007 Tax records
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Michael Vick’s new spokesman says ‘You are a monster too!’
October 17, 2009 by Nathan J. Winograd
Wayne Pacelle, the CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and spokesman for the most notorious animal abuser of our time, is digging himself into a deeper hole. The head of the nation’s wealthiest animal “protection” group is now arguing in newspapers across the country, including San Francisco’s, that we should forgive Michael Vick because we are all “sinners when it comes to animals.” Is Pacelle really that desperate that he now says we are all monsters like Vick? Or perhaps, in a bit of Freudian repentance, he is talking about himself: about how he lobbied the court to kill Michael Vick’s canine victims even as he was fundraising off of them <http://www.nathanwinograd.com/linked/hsusblogs.pdf> ?
The slaughter of the dogs and puppies at Wilkes County, NC? Or the mass killing in Tangipahoa LA? The round up and kill of cats in Randolph, IA? Or any of the innumerable places Pacelle and HSUS minions have chanted ‘kill, kill, kill’ in the face of proven, successful, reasonable No Kill alternatives? As for me, I’ve never stomped, electrocuted, hung, shot, drowned, or strangled dogs, nor have I watched them tear each other to shreds and laughed. But Michael Vick did, and he’d still be doing it to this very day had he not been caught. [Read “Riding on Michael Vick’s Bloodstained Coattails” by clicking here .]
Kathleen McGarr of Fix San Francisco, a group which has been trying to reform the city’s kill-oriented animal control and SPCA, says that when she read Pacelle’s claim that she is a monster like Vick, “I nearly fell off my chair.” McGarr’s group has been fighting Pacelle who opposes their No Kill campaign in San Francisco. In short, Pacelle says that No Kill is warehousing, leads to animal suffering, and that San Francisco shelters should be allowed to continue killing. Who is the monster here Wayne? The Op Ed piece by Pacelle comes on the eve of his planned visit to San Francisco where he will try to convince animal lovers that the most notorious animal abuser of our time should be embraced. Here’s my article about the visit from the examiner: Wayne Pacelle is coming to town.
From the examiner (October 16, 2009):
As the Humane Society of the United States embraces the most notorious animal abuser of our time and fights a proposal to save San Francisco’s neediest animals, the head of HSUS is coming to the City to raise money for his Washington D.C.-based group. The controversial head of the nation’s largest and wealthiest animal protection organization in the United States is coming to San Francisco for an October 28 “Town Hall” meeting. Wayne Pacelle, the CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, will discuss, among other things, his new spokesman: dog-killer Michael Vick, the most notorious animal abuser of our time. Can anyone imagine the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence embracing wife killer O.J. Simpson as a spokesman? Can anyone imagine the National Organization to Prevent Sexual Abuse of Children embracing pedophile John Geoghan as a spokesman? Can anyone imagine the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network embracing rapist Josef Fritzl as a spokesman? It is unthinkable. And yet Wayne Pacelle is asking animal lovers in San Francisco to embrace our movement’s version of Simpson, Geoghan, and Fritzl as a spokesman. It is beyond obscene. It is unthinkable. Pacelle says he will answer questions from San Francisco animal lovers about this and other topics. I have a number of other questions for Pacelle. Why did he, through HSUS:
1. Participate in the slaughter of some 150 dogs, including puppies, in Wilkes County, NC?
2. Lobby to stop No Kill legislation in King County, WA?
3. Support breed discriminatory legislation in Indianapolis, IN that would have led to the round up and killing of Pit Bulls?
4. Tell USA Today and Newsweek that killing in shelters is acceptable and that No Kill was warehousing?
5. Mislead the public about an epidemic of dog bites to convey the view that trying to save Pit Bulls was irresponsible and put children at risk?
6. Tell the court to kill Vick’s victims even as he was asking people to give HSUS money so he could “care” for them?
7. Leave New Orleans with tens of millions given to HSUS for the victims of Hurricane Katrina even while those animals were still suffering?
8. Legitimize the slaughter of virtually every animal at Tangipahoa Parish animal control?
9. Tell people not to adopt animals during the holidays, effectively accepting the deaths of 1,000,000 animals as the alternative?
10. Tell the Randolph, IA community that HSUS does not have a problem killing stray cats?
11. Claim that rescued dogs in Missouri should face a “pretty certain death”? And especially important for San Francisco animal lovers, why is he opposing a No Kill San Francisco? Pacelle recently sent a letter to San Francisco’s Animal Control & Welfare Commission equating No Kill with hoarding and opposing shelter reform legislation that would save San Francisco’s neediest homeless animals. Unfortunately, Pacelle has long been an apologist and enabler of shelter killing.
In the end, the real reason behind the “Town Hall meeting” might just have nothing to do with animals. This “town hall” format is often little more than a fundraising ploy which has been successfully used by other organizations to sap money from local donors and thus away from local rescue groups, and into the bank accounts of national organizations. And for HSUS, money doesn’t appear to be a means to the end of saving animals. It is the end in and of itself, the animals be damned.
from DOG POLITICS: August 22, 2007 HSUS & Wayne Pacelle -Vick’s Dogs Must Die
It seems no reporter is safe from Wayne Pacelle, the HSUS talking head CEO, as he pontificates his point of view on the fate on Michael Vick’s remaining dogs. And that POV, of course, is death. Now is it just me or do you also find it insane that an organization that purports to “protect” animals is in fact advocating for the death of animals? Wayne Pacelle – Vick’s Dogs Must Die This week, a federal judge will decide the fate of Michael Vick’s remaining dogs, 53 pitbulls. Mr. Pacelle, speaking for the world’s largest and richest animal organization, HSUS, apparently thinks these pitbulls should and must die. In an article in the Virginian-Pilot earlier this week enetitled, “Deadline Looms For Pitbulls Seized In Vick Investigation”, Pacelle, the HSUS CEO, is quoted as saying, ” it does not make sense to keep these animals alive”. But wait – there’s more…………………..is it even more insane! Or should we just call it plain GREED, that HSUS was begging for money to care for these dogs just a few short weeks ago? The HSUS Shell Game That’s right – HSUS was sooooooooo concerned about the fate of Michae’l Vick’s dogs that it pushed the magic email button, sending out millions of email messages in an on-demand beg-a-thon, pleading for donations to help them care for Vick’s dogs. Ooooopsie, though – there was just one teensy problem that HSUS “forgot” to mention: Apparently HSUS didn’t have custody of Michael Vick’s dogs – and they still don’t. That’s right – HSUS got caught out – Wayne Pacelle got caught with his pants down with that one. It was a bold faced lie. I Know You Are But What Am I? In an attempt to answer a wave of criticism, Wayne Pacelle fired up his blog and called those who dared to criticize him and HSUS as greedy evil dog breeders, front men for the meat industry, and probably dog fighters, so on and so on. Yeah, Wayne – you sound like an immature 12 year-old kid brother – “I know you are but what am I?” Well, then Wayne – I dare you to call me any of those names, for I am none of those. But I have a name for you, in fact several. You are a snake oil salesman – a hustler in a pin-striped suit with a fancy law degree, pimping out animals for power and profit. There is nothing in that bottle of alleged snake oil of any value – it’s filled with sugar water, so it goes down real smooth. You, sir, are nothing but a charlatan. You and HSUS are bilking innocent animal lovers out of millions in the name of kindness. You sir, are a profiteer.
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From online comments across the WWW it is clear HSUS members continue to be disconcerted with the giant not-for-profit animal advocacy group.
Had HSUS asked its members if they approved the backing of Michael Vick the reply would have been a resounding NO.
Now, yet another issue has HSUS members annoyed… at least in Pennsylvania.
Recently, HSUS state director Sarah Speed entered into a private agreement with special deputy secretary of Dog Law Jessie Smith.
Essentially, the agreement kept hundreds of thousands of PA HSUS members in the dark. They were NOT notified about a regulatory process that would have allowed for the submission of individual public comments.
Ms. Speed’s letter to the PA Independent Regulatory Review Commission details the agreement:
“At the request of the Bureau of Dog Law, we have not alerted our membership to the comment process or the development of the proposed regulations.”
Read her letter here:
http://starturl.com/yvjbl
HSUS has an obligation to keep their membership up-to-date and offer members the ability to voice their individual opinions BEFORE moving forward and speaking on their behalf.
As was the case with Michael Vick, once again HSUS gives an entirely new meaning to the phrase “Wayne’s World.”
As with any other pacifist welfare organization, their job is to raise sympathy among their membership for animals in extreme cruelty cases. Then they keep raking in the money only to later euthanize the “poor animal” They should be ashamed about Michael Vick and his horrifically abused dogs. I hope they have and will continue to lose members.
The ASPCA has recently done the same thing to a poor pitbull named Oreo. The dog was thrown off a 6 story roof and needed extensive medical care. Thousands in donations were sent to the ASPCA for the dogs medical treatments. Two months later the ASPCA euthanized the animal because they said she was too aggressive. A few no kill animal sanctuaries and/or rehab centers offered to take her and work with her as long as they had too. Those requests were ignored. They brought an almost dead dog back to health just to euthanize her? After all she had been through, don’t you think she deserved every chance she could get? Maybe when the donations stopped pouring in they realized how much more work it would take to rehabilitate her and that’s when they made their decision. Shame on HSUS and the ASPCA.