{"id":542236,"date":"2010-04-22T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerfreedom.com:\/\/ce3a779074d6036f00f45e3608d4fffa"},"modified":"2010-04-22T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"iowa-congressman-calls-out-hsus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542236","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Congressman Calls Out HSUS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tYesterday was Earth Day, and we felt it was an apt time to clear the air<\/a> over at The Daily Caller<\/em> about the PETA-fueled myth<\/a> that eating meat causes ecological destruction. But more importantly, Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) penned his own piece on the animal-rights “Humane Society” of the United States in The Baltimore Sun<\/em>. Citing our research<\/a> and our website HumaneWatch.org<\/a>, Rep. King points out that despite the “humane society” in its name, HSUS earmarks less than one percent of its budget as grants to local, hands-on pet shelters. Coming from a farm state, he also knows that HSUS is a threat to honest livestock farmers everywhere<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\tFarmers and ranchers across the country have long known what many Americans are just now learning. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is a political machine masquerading as an umbrella organization for local humane societies.<\/p>\n

\n\t\tHSUS solicits money from well-intentioned but often uninformed animal lovers and uses these donations to lobby Congress for an anti-meat, anti-animal-agriculture agenda….<\/p>\n

\n\t\tLeaders of this organization have made statements indicating they would like to see animal agriculture end. John "J.P." Goodwin, the manager of Animal Fighting Issues at HSUS, told AR-Views, an animal rights Internet discussion group, that his "goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture."…  Paul Shapiro, senior director of HSUS' factory farming campaign, told a Colorado audience in 2003 that "eating meat causes animal cruelty." HSUS has given funding to the notorious anti-meat organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n\tRead the whole piece <\/a>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was Earth Day, and we felt it was an apt time to clear the air over at The Daily Caller about the PETA-fueled myth that eating meat causes ecological destruction. But more importantly, Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) penned his own piece on the animal-rights “Humane Society” of the United States in The Baltimore Sun. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542236","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=542236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}