Obama’s Record on Animals

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http://snipurl.com/pk4xw [unsilent Generation]Obama’s Record on AnimalsDecember 21, 2009 · Leave a CommentI know from comments and emails that a lot of Unsilent Generation’s readers care about animals, so I’m passing on this report card from the Humane Society of the United States on Obama’s first year in office. After noting that “This administration is far better than the last one on animal protection issues,” HSUS highlights some positive and negative developments in the last year.Basically, it’s been a good year for polar bears (if you don’t count climate change) and a bad one for wolves (even without Sarah Palin). On most other points, it’s a mixed bag. But HSUS rightly focuses on one area where the U.S. government not only ignores animal cruelty, but subsidizes it:This year, USDA has doled out hundreds of millions of tax dollars in subsidies to the factory farming industry, buying up pork, meat from spent hens, and milk, but requiring nothing of these industries yet in terms of reforms that would improve animal welfare and public health. These industries operate in a deregulated environment when it comes to animal welfare, and they essentially do as they please. The passage of Proposition 2 in California and similar initiatives in Arizona and Florida demonstrated that the American public wants to see an end to these intensive confinement practices, and the Administration should help push that along, rather than continue to prop up inhumane, environmentally destructive, and dangerous confinement systems. The Farm Sanctuary, a rescue, education, and advocacy group for farm animals, notes Obama’s recent decision to ban the slaughter of “downed” cattle–animals too weak or injured to walk, who experience additional cruelty on their way to their deaths. The group currently has a “Petition for the Pigs” urging the president to do the same for pigs and other livestock. Keep in mind that these are pretty modest demands, which address only the most extreme brutal practices. Anyone who takes a slightly more radical approach is subject to the wrath of federal law enforcement, acting on legislation that broadly defines animal rights activism as “eco-terrorism.” Will Potter’s excellent blog Green Is the New Red tracks the latest outrages and absurdities (including infiltrating vegan potlucks) that are committed under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, passed in 2006 largely at the behest of animal-related industries.There’s no sign that anything has changed on this front since Obama came into office. Far right web sites may be alive with promises of armed insurrection and threats against the life of the president , but according to the FBI, it’s still the animal rights crowd that we really have to worry about when it comes to domestic terrorism. =====In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.

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The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is not a group you want

to be associated with. I wouldn't give them two cents. They are not a

Animal Welfare Group. They are an animal activist group. Their goal is

to eliminate  all animal ownership and turn everyone into Vegans (Diet

of no meat and no dairy).  The  HSUS has generated the largest amount

of money of any animal activist group in the world and doesn't support

the Local Humane Society with one penny. Most of the money generated is

used for HSUS salaries and their advertising campaigns. A lot of the

officers of HSUS are former PETA officials.  If you want to find out

more about HSUS go to http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/136

 

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Obama’s Record on Animals

December 21, 2009 · Leave

a Comment

I  know from comments and

emails that a lot of Unsilent Generation’s readers care about animals,

so I’m passing on this report card from

the Humane Society of the United States on Obama’s first

year in office. After noting that “This administration is far better

than the last one on animal protection issues,” HSUS highlights some

positive and negative developments in the last year.

 

 

 

Basically, it’s been a good

year for polar bears (if you don’t count climate change) and a bad one

for wolves (even without Sarah Palin). On most other points, it’s a

mixed bag. But HSUS rightly focuses on one area where the U.S.

government not only ignores animal cruelty, but subsidizes it:

This year, USDA has doled

out hundreds of millions of tax dollars in subsidies to

the factory farming industry, buying up pork,

meat from spent hens, and milk, but requiring nothing of these

industries yet in terms of reforms that would improve animal welfare

and public health. These industries operate in a deregulated

environment when it comes to animal welfare, and they essentially do as

they please. The passage of

Proposition 2 in California and similar

initiatives in Arizona and Florida demonstrated that the American

public wants to see an end to these intensive confinement practices,

and the Administration should help push that along, rather than

continue to prop up inhumane, environmentally destructive, and

dangerous confinement systems.

 

 

 

 

The Farm Sanctuary,

a rescue, education, and advocacy group for farm animals, notes Obama’s

recent decision to ban the slaughter of “downed” cattle–animals too

weak or injured to walk, who experience additional cruelty on their way

to their deaths. The group currently has a “Petition for the

Pigs” urging the president to do the same for pigs and other livestock. 

Keep in mind that these are

pretty modest demands, which address only the most extreme brutal

practices.  Anyone who takes a slightly more radical approach is

subject to the wrath of federal law enforcement, acting on legislation

that broadly defines animal rights activism as “eco-terrorism.” Will

Potter’s excellent blog Green Is the New

Red tracks the latest outrages and absurdities

(including infiltrating vegan potlucks) that are committed under the Animal Enterprise

Terrorism Act, passed in 2006 largely at the behest of

animal-related industries.

There’s no sign that anything

has changed on this front since Obama came into office. Far right web

sites may be alive with promises of armed insurrection and threats

against the life of the president , but according to the FBI, it’s

still the animal rights crowd that we really have to worry about when

it comes to domestic terrorism.

 

 

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In

accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is

distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest

in receiving the included information for research and educational

purposes.