Humane Watch
The Humane Society of the United States is not honest with the public about its true political agenda. Most people believe that HSUS is a moderate group focused on animal welfare—something HSUS is all too happy to have people believe—when in fact the group is run by radicals who have more in common with PETAthan they do mainstream America. And occasionally, the mask slips. Full Story
High Plains Journal
In the past few years, you may have noticed major fast-food joints advertising their sourcing of food by more “ethical” farm practices. Panera Bread is the latest restaurant to get on its high horse and announce it will only source eggs from producers who do not use battery cages and pork from producers who do not use gestation stalls.
Humane Watch
As HSUS works to get a bacon-and-egg ban on the Massachusetts ballot next year, it seems as if a whole brigade of vegan activists has converged on the Commonwealth to collect signatures for the initiative. One such fellow is HSUS campaigner Matt Dominguez. You may remember him from this summer, when he was in Rhode Island harassing a state senator (and farmer) who helped defeat HSUS-backed anti-egg farmer legislation, which resulted in the police being called at one point. Now, in one of his latest tweets, Dominguez giddily sports a shirt that says, “Be kind to animals or I’ll kill you.” Full Story
Truth About Fur
Thirty years! The other day I suddenly realised that this is the 30th anniversary of the publication my book Second Nature: The Animal-Rights Controversy. First published by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in 1985, this was the first serious critique – and is still one of the very few – of the animal-rights movement from an environmental and human-rights perspective.
The publication of Second Nature changed my life. Until then, my interests as a freelance writer had ranged widely, although curiosity about different people and cultures was often a unifying theme: from promoting the cause of Tibetan refugees to exploring the mystical world of Hassidic Jews. While I was brought up in a Canadian fur manufacturing family, the emerging “animal rights” debate was only one story among many. Full Story
Protect The Harvest has put out a great 4-part series on understanding the animal rights movement. The four articles discuss the history, connections, financials, and legislative / legal battles behind the animal rights movement. The articles share great information and pose the final question of “Will you help us end the corruption of the animal rights industry?” Link To The Stories
Protect the Harvest
If you missed our previous article on the animal rights movements and its brief history, you can find it HERE. Today we will be discussing the subtle connections between animal rights organizations, their personnel, and their financial interactions to gain a better understanding of the interplay within the animal rights movement as a whole.
To illustrate some of the connections we are including a web map put together byanimalagalliance.org. Their map alone clearly shows what an influential part of the animal rights movement the Humane Society of the United States is, and consequently why noting their corrupt behavior is so important. Full Story
Inforum
Is food a basic right? Do animals and other organisms have rights?These and related questions are becoming important as voters are asked to consider if raising chickens in cages and keeping sows in farrowing crates are OK in some localities and states. This is the third in a series of articles about innovations in agriculture. It’s not the lament of an animal rights activist, though I like animals a lot. Full Story
Today’s article will be focusing on the history and overview of the animal rights crusade. Before we go into specifics on the interplay between the different organizations, corruption in their ranks, and threat that they pose to agriculture, it is important to understand how the movement developed and became what it is today. Humans have always had a unique connection with animals – we use them as tools, for food, and companionship. Throughout history they have been important to our religion, protection, and medical rehabilitation. Full Story
Advocates of animal rights ideology seek to end all domestication of animals. Advocates of animal welfare, on the other hand, seek to create ever-improving standards of animal husbandry. Animal rights sometimes hides behind appeals to animal welfare — to gain funds and followers — but a true animal rightist hates the idea of animal welfare. Why? Because it presumes that we have the right to domesticate what used to be called beasts. Full Story
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