HSUS Reveals True Characters in ‘Words and Guns’ Speech
This blog is beginning to feel like a tabloid as I report the ridiculous stunts the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) continues to pull to push forward their number one agenda of abolishing American animal agriculture. However, I feel its increasingly important for producers to understand and recognize the serious threat this organization poses for cattlemen. While most of their efforts are portrayed in the media as noble and earnest efforts on behalf of dogs and cats, we all know better than that. And, finally, HSUS has revealed a piece of their dark side to their supporters. In a recent rally held in Los Angeles, the Center for Consumer Freedom found their way in just in time to listen to HSUS President Wayne Pacelle present a speech that showed the true character of the organization.
Quote of the Week, by Center for Consumer Freedom
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.
Hmm, interesting indeed. Be sure to read the entire article at the Center for Consumer Freedom, and pass it on to those who should know about this dangerous organization.
BEEF Daily Quick Fact: It’s been well documented that HSUS spends only a tiny fraction – less than four percent – of its budget directly funding animal shelters. (Source: 7 Things You Didn’t Know About HSUS)
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:27 am
It is hard to equate the issues and methods used by the animal rights folks to a specific purpose. We, those who earn their living directly from agriculture have to employ logic and practical thinking into everything we do. The other folks, are driven by emotions which are guided by video snapshots of the worst possible examples of animal care. These video snapshots are not typical of the care livestock receive, and quite frankly almost every livestock owner and producer that would see the video snapshots presented, would be equally upset. The problem comes when the animal rights people present the media with video that is represented as “typical” and “usual”. For some animal rights speakers to intimate the use of violence, is simply and example of how the other side plays on the emotions of the un-informed. After all, we have generations of people who think our products originate with the supermarket. I no longer think ignorance is bliss.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:36 am
I have always said that HSUS was indeed a terrorist group. Their agenda is to gather as much money as they can, not for the guise of “saving” animals, but for themselves. There are a lot of well-meaning poeple who are taken in and give of their time and money for a select few to decide how to use…i.e. the Ebell in LA for their meeting. One thing that does bother me a great deal is the ability of the HSUS to uncover animal abuse at places that are supposed to have USDA inspectors overseeing the processing of meat. I do hope and pray that steps are taken to provide HSUS with NO reason to be at those places.
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Benita,
You have a great point in the fact that these processing plants “are supposed to have USDA inspectors overseeing the processing of meat.” Unfortuantely, that speaks volumes and the obvious fact that the government in charge of anything is counter productive! Now imagine that the USDA, now overseen by an administration who favors left thinking and has placed regulatory authority into the hands of folks like Cass Sunstein, are the ones now charged with ensuring that OUR product is handled and processed humanely and properly? They now can directly effect one of the final links of the chain in getting OUR beef products onto the plates of the consumers.
Now I am not big into conspiracy theories, but it certainly wouldn’t be hard to imagine an organization once created to keep American’s food system safe now being swayed to look the other way in order to promote an anti-animal agriculture agenda. It’s not that far removed from letting the fox into the preverbial hen house.
The answer, I think, is self policing. Perhaps the NCBA or another organization should work hand in hand with meat processors to ensure safe animal handling, processing, etc.? Perhaps it is time for them to form an association committed to safe practices, with STRICT and PUNITIVE self impossed penalities for any deviation from said policies and practices? This organization could also work with the USDA, but act as a front line of defense (meaning enforcing standards within plants FIRST) and calling on the USDA to act when violations are discovered? Of course, this all takes money, but one would think that those with vested interests, meat packers mainly but beef producers too, would see the benefit to self policing and how the entire industry would reap the benefits in both consumer trust and finanical gain! Membership to this “industry created and directed” compliance organization would be of course voluntary, but hopefully it would soon become the standard and would weed the weak and bad actors out of the industry all together.
I like to think that the cattle I have sent through the auction house are handled humanely as they were on my farm and up until that point in the process, but how does one really know? We MUST all unite to ensure that our product is protected all the way from birth to processing with strict penalities for non compliance…we will all see finanical benefits from this!
At one time a sticker on a package of meat that read “USDA Inspected” meant something. No longer. Perhaps it’s time to see a sticker that reads “NCBA Inspected.”
Blaine
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Blaine
You have a lot of very valid points…I hope the right people read them! Maybe some of those ideas are already in the making. Self-policing beats government involvement all to pieces, but it will take a lot of work from all of us. Are we up to the task?
Benita
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