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| AR or AW? Do you know the difference? | Opinions, Editorials, Articles | Guardianship,Property & Legal Status | HSUS and AR Groups |
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ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND (ALDF)
According to their website, ALDF describes itself as attorneys active in shaping the emerging field of animal law. They specialize in "Filing groundbreaking lawsuits to stop animal abuse and expand the boundaries of animal law." ALDF advocates changing the legal status of animals from property to personhood. Included in the educational and legislative work of ALDF are model animal laws, such as making it illegal to sell or transfer an animal to a research or educational facility, and insertion of guardian to replace owner. When and how legal rights for animals will be established is as yet unknown. We are only beginning to explore the legal theories that may be argued. Joyce Tischler, Executive Director, Animal Legal Defense Fund Epilogue, Animal Law, Cases and Materials, 2002 “Everything we are doing lays the foundation for the one day when animals will have rights" ....“We need to get in their faces and sue the animal users so often they don’t know which courtroom they’re supposed to appear in next.” Valerie Stanley, ALDF Attorney June, 1996 The Great Ape Legal Project Legal Counsel Tells Court That Her Clients Would Rather See Elephants Euthanized Than in a Zoo June 10, 2006. Drive to give human rights to apes leaves Spanish divided Citizen Standing to Enforce Anti-Cruelty Laws by Obtaining Injunctions: The North Carolina Experience, 11 Animal Law 39 (2005) authored by Professor William Reppy. Professor Reppy, Duke University Animal Law, is a long time animal rights activist, moderator at the first Animal Rights Conference on the Legal Status of Nonhuman Animals in 1999; presenter at the Conference on Future of Animal Law, Animal Legal Defense Fund, Yale Law School, New Haven, November 2004; Director of Animal Legal Defense Fund's North Carolina Animal Cruelty Project 2004; and currently serving as a member of the North Carolina General Statutes Commission. PETA Eco-Terror Ties Put PETA Funding at Risk PETA: Sacrifice Human, Not Animal Life for Medical Research, July, 2006 June 27, 2005. PETA Piper Ends Up in a Pickle and Who Are These Animal Rights Organizations? by Kerry L. Marsala The banner on PETA's home page says - "Animals are NOT ours to eat; Animals are NOT ours to wear; Animals are NOT ours to experiment on; Animals are NOT ours to use for entertainment; Animals are NOT ours to exploit. Their message is very clear that animals are not ours - and this includes pets. Think about this. A portion of every dollar they receive furthers this philosophy. Your Kids - PETA's Pawns Still think PETA is a friend to animals? Read the PETA position statement on pets from their Animal Rights Uncompromised website: We at PETA very much love the animal companions who share our homes, but we believe that it would have been in the animals' best interests if the institution of "pet keeping"—i.e., breeding animals to be kept and regarded as "pets"—never existed. The international pastime of domesticating animals has created an overpopulation crisis; as a result, millions of unwanted animals are destroyed every year as "surplus." This selfish desire to possess animals and receive love from them causes immeasurable suffering, which results from manipulating their breeding, selling or giving them away casually, and depriving them of the opportunity to engage in their natural behavior. Their lives are restricted to human homes where they must obey commands and can only eat, drink, and even urinate when humans allow them to. http://www.peta.org/campaigns/ar-petaonpets.asp PETA kills animals PETA workers on trial in NC |
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES (HSUS)
Established in 1954, HSUS began as an animal welfare organization. Over the years HSUS assimilated leaders and ideas from the animal rights movement, moving closer to the complete animal rights ideology it maintains today. Through effective marketing and campaigns directed at the public’s natural love of animals to solicit funds, HSUS has grown to be a household word and an industry giant worth close to $120 million. What drives this mammoth organization? Is it animal welfare goals of humane treatment and stewardship or animal rights philosophy which would eliminate from our lives the use of animals in any fashion? To understand the goals, you must examine the beliefs of the leaders, not the campaigns that claim to be for the protection of animals. Wayne Pacelle. President, Humane Society of the United States; former Executive Dir. & National Dir., the Fund For Animals; former president, Animal Rights Alliance; former chairman, Animal Rights Network Inc.; former editor, The Animals’ Agenda magazine. Pacelle, a strict vegan who converted to the animal rights philosophy after reading Peter Singer’s “Animal Liberation”, joined HSUS in 1994 after working at the anti-hunting group the Fund for Animals for six years. There he helped Paul Watson and his violent Sea Shepherd Conservation Society raise money for ships, and assisted Alex Pacheco and PETA as they ran an undercover investigation of a primate research lab. Quoting Paul Shapiro, HSUS staffer, Compassion Over Killing co-founder, "nothing is more important than promoting veganism.", 2004 National Student Animal Rights Conference. Quoting Michael Markarian. Executive VP Humane Society of the United States; Past President, Fund for Animals; Board member Institute for Animals and Society: "..your everyday meat-eaters and cosmetics users; they are not vivisectors, they are not slaughterhouse operators, and they have basic feelings of compassion. But they are accustomed to eating, wearing, and using animal products, and they need to be convinced to give them up. They can be won over—slowly but surely they are being won over—….." NCRAOA Editorial: HSUS & DDAL Merger Animal People, Editorial Sept 2004. The Fund, HSUS, and merging packs. HSUS until recently avoided becoming involved in hands-on care for animals, for reasons Amory himself articulated in early position statements: to focus on advocacy, to avoid any dilution of mission, and to escape philosophical compromises that might be driven by the need to raise money to feed and house animals. The Humane Society of the United States and the Fund for Animals Join Forces in Historic Merger. Groups Combine to Form World's Largest Animal Protection Society, Launch New Campaigns and Political Arm What Is The Humane Society of the United States? Humane Society of the United States NAIA. HSUS "fact sheet" distorts animal control issues and answers Washington Post. Vegan in the henhouse by Don Oldenburg Sportsman Alliance of Maine. Sportsmen loaded for bear By Tom Hennessey Satya. Looking at the Bigger Picture: Violence, Change, and Public Opinion By Wayne Pacelle and J.P. Goodwin Wayne Pacelle's Coronation: A Change of Power & Focus at HSUS DVM Magazine June 2006. Executive Board sinks HSUS joint venture Animal Agriculture Alliance. HSUS agenda: A threat to animal agriculture Is The Humane Society of the U.S. Again Scaring People Away From Good Diets? by Dennis Avery, senior fellow for Hudson Institute The Humane Society of the US: Its not about animal shelters. Daniel Oliver Welfare's Political Animal by Jennifer Fiala, DVM Newsmagazine. HSUS front man Wayne Pacelle says mainstream America is driving a new welfare agenda He's been called a wolf in sheep's clothing, a man with hidden agendas and the most influential player the animal-welfare arena has ever seen. |
