{"id":262894,"date":"2010-01-31T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerfreedom.com:\/\/e55a4af1822c510f0c73b24d1982de0e"},"modified":"2010-01-31T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:00:00","slug":"get-ready-for-%e2%80%98humanewatch%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/262894","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready for \u2018HumaneWatch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no denying it: The gargantuan Humane Society of the United States<\/a> (HSUS) is now the animal rights industry’s richest and most powerful player<\/a>. <\/span>HSUS is exercising its prohibition-minded influence in every corner of America, <\/span>over everything<\/span> from the pets in our homes to the eggs on our plates. HSUS pursues a PETA-like agenda<\/a> with a budget<\/a> and seriousness that PETA itself has never been able to match.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ohio provides a timely example. Last November, Ohio voters voted overwhelmingly<\/a> (with 63% “yes” votes) to amend the State Constitution by creating a Livestock Care Standards Board<\/a>. All issues of “animal care and well-being” in the Buckeye State are now entrusted to this Board. But that presents a problem for HSUS, which would rather abolish livestock farming than see it responsibly regulated. <\/span><\/p>\n

As we predicted back in September<\/a>—before <\/i>“Issue 2” even got a vote—HSUS is now moving to supersede the judgment of Ohio’s livestock authorities with its own ballot initiative. Today HSUS officially put the wheels in motion<\/a>. If this counter-attack succeeds, the Livestock Care Standards Board will be required <\/i>to adopt HSUS-recommended standards, whether or not they are in the best interests of animals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next week we will re-launch<\/b> HumaneWatch.org<\/a><\/b>, and you<\/i><\/b> are cordially invited to lend a hand as it grows. HumaneWatch will be a blog, a document library, a rogues’ gallery, a historical resource, and more. Our Director of Research will be sharing what we know, and inviting you to do the same. No topic will be off-limits, and your comments will be welcome. (Yes, Mr. Pacelle. Even yours.)<\/span><\/p>\n

So today we’re putting out the call: If you have anything<\/i><\/b> in your files or on your computer that concerns the Humane Society of the United States (no matter how insignificant it may seem to you)<\/span>, we would like to see it.<\/span> Most of what is known about HSUS is squirreled away in filing cabinets, or lost to history but for the memories of a few persistent Americans. But that’s about to change.<\/span><\/p>\n

We want fundraising mailers (including forwarded e-mails), old tax returns, advertisements, magazine back-issues, correspondence, legal papers, photos, contemporaneous accounts of historical events—you name it. Anything related to HSUS or any of its many subsidiary groups<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ve set up two easy “drop boxes” so you can start flooding us with anything you want to share. Anonymous submissions are welcome (<\/span>we will take pains <\/span>to authenticate everything before using it). We promise to protect your privacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can e-mail information about HSUS to info@HumaneWatch.org<\/a><\/b> (a robustly virus-protected address), or send postal mail to “HumaneWatch,” P.O. Box 34555, Washington DC 20043<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Materials sent to the P.O. Box will not be returned, so please only send copies<\/i> of anything you’d like to keep. If you have large archives to share, please drop us an e-mail for a discussion of how we can take it off your hands at no cost to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ll let you know when the new website goes <\/span>live. In the <\/span>meantime, please gear up to help us ask some tough questions, and provide some answers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because even a dog-watcher needs a watchdog.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s no denying it: The gargantuan Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is now the animal rights industry’s richest and most powerful player. HSUS is exercising its prohibition-minded influence in every corner of America, over everything from the pets in our homes to the eggs on our plates. HSUS pursues a PETA-like agenda with a budget and seriousness that PETA itself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}