TURNING POINT

His Fine Feathered Friends, And Ours

When Pacelle heard about a charity pigeon shoot, he decided to fire back.

NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Nov 19, 2007

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  • Posted By: WayneLovesWayne @ 04/13/2009 3:44:17 PM

    Wayne Pacelle is well known to only care about his future political career and not about the animals we care so much about. The Humane Society of the United States and Wayne Pacelle has been relentlessly fooling donators for years with his false prophet persona. It is truly a crime that HSUS and Wayne Pacelle can lead such a sinful campaign to destroy, not save, these precious animals. Less than four percent of HSUS donations ever make it to the homeless animals. Shame on Wayne Pacelle and the HSUS! You are not fooling us anymore!

  • Posted By: opiper @ 10/10/2008 9:47:22 PM

    to the previous commentor, "no mugwump," i argue that hunting for survival is different than hunting for sport. hunting for survival is also different than husbandry/farming for mass consumption. survival need not be gratuitously cruel.

  • Posted By: HARRYB @ 11/13/2007 8:54:41 AM

    THE SICK MENTALITY OF THOSE WHO TAKE PLEASURE IN KILLING CREATURES WHO CAN'T SHOOT BACK IS PATHTIC. I CONSIDER THOSE IDIOTS COWARDS. WOULD THEY BE OUT THERE HIDING IN THE BRUSH OR BEHIND A TREE IF THAT ANIMAL COULD SHOOT BACK. THEY'RE NOT DOING IT TO EAT, OR TO SPARE THE ANIMAL A ROUGH WINTER. FOR THEM IT'S THE JOY OF KILLING SOMETHING.

    • Posted By: no mugwump @ 05/30/2008 2:37:56 AM

      Too bad evolution in humans is now replaced by social evolution. You would be pretty hungry if you couldn't hunt like our ancestors did for many 100 of thousands of years. It is nice to be able to have our food killed, collected, and shipped to us.

  • Posted By: etbmfa @ 11/13/2007 9:45:14 AM

    The Humane Society of the United States is an animal rights organization whose sole purpose is to pass new laws making it more difficult and expensive to own animals. They run NO animal shelters - they have admitted that. Here is a quote from Daniel T. Oliver's article on HSUS - "With a $46-million budget and 4.1 million members, the Washington, D.C.-based Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is the largest animal rights organization in the country. Founded in 1954 and staffed by 200 employees, HSUS is sometimes confused with local humane societies that find homes for unwanted cats and dogs. But according to its own literature, "we are not . . . affiliated with any local animal shelters or humane organizations." Donations to HSUS go toward lobbying and passing laws - NOT to the care and welfare of animals. They also donate money to the defense funds of animal rights terrorists who blow up labs and harass American citizens working to improve health care for humans in this country. But please don't take MY word for this - read Daniel T. Oliver's book "Animal Rights, The Inhumane Movement" and Rod and Patti Strand's book "Animal Rights, The Hijacking of the Humane Movement" and make your own EDUCATED decisions. Then you can join an organization that is truly working for ALL animals and animal owners - the National Animal Interest Alliance - www.naiaonline.org

    • Posted By: no mugwump @ 05/30/2008 2:33:54 AM

      Yes, yes, yes. Your comment is so much better that anything I could write. HSUS deliberately picked their name to confuse people into thinking they were the Humane Society of America which runs shelters all across the US.

  • Posted By: Sheldon PhD @ 11/12/2007 4:16:52 PM

    What a joke. Look -- if you want to deny your place on the food chain, it's a free country so go ahead. But the rest of us, about 95 percent of us, will go ahead and eat meat, drink milk, wear leather shoes, go to the zoo, and enjoy the benefits of medical research done with animals. If this guy were running a real "humane society," he would stick to running animal shelters. But his group doesn't operate any. Not one. It's just a shill for moralizing self-smug superior know-it-alls.

    • Posted By: 3dognight @ 11/14/2007 3:42:06 PM

      If 95% of you took a good look at how your food was raised there would not be 95% of you. Not only are the animals treated inhumanely they are also fed chemical laden food, given vaccinations that they don't need and growth hormones to make them plumper. The waste the animals produce as well as the runoff from the killing sites are environmental hazards and a huge contributor (more than cars) to global warming. I challenge you to find out the truth. People who donate to the HSUS know that it is not just another place where pets are taken because they are no longer wanted. The HSUS work tirelessly for all animals. Wayne Pacelle is a superior spokesperson for animals and I???m glad he???s on our side.

      • Posted By: no mugwump @ 05/30/2008 2:31:00 AM

        Don't confuse HSUS with HSOA. HSUS chose its name just to con people to believe it is like the Humane Society of America. The Humane Society of America runs shelters and is active in sheltering and feeding neglected pets. HSUS is part of PETA and both do NOTHING to actually help animals. The use ALL of there money for publicity and actavism. PETA is actually responsible for telling people that they would give their pet a good home and then killing it and throwing it in a dumpster on their way back to the office. This was done 1000's of times until they were caught. Do as I say not as I do huh!

  • Posted By: bluehibiscus5 @ 12/28/2007 10:51:08 AM

    To the macho, meat eating man by the name of Rainman, you're an obnoxious jerk...if you would just do a tiny bit of research, you would see that the way animals in the farming industry and warehouses are treated is horrifying, disgusting and monetarily centered. Before you stuff that fat mouth with a double cheeseburger, try to remember, oh and maybe respect, the animal it came from. I am not saying that animals were put on this earth to have the same place as humans on the food chain, but seriously, don't you think they deserve a little compassion/respect before we pump their innocent bodies full of hormones and antibiotics, before we ship them off to be brutally slaughtered? Do some research.

    • Posted By: no mugwump @ 05/30/2008 2:20:56 AM

      Probably the best solution is to go out and kill your own meat. Hunting provides much better meat than farm animals and it is part of humans origions and tradition. It is a good family activity, healthy exercise, and gets you in real touch with nature. Never trust an environmentalist that doesn't hunt. Hunters started the environmental movement and animal protection laws. These have been perverted by ignorant liberal whakos.

  • Posted By: janicegrounds @ 12/01/2007 3:15:47 PM

    I believe that if Americans really knew where that 'double cheese burger' came from there would be a huge outcry - remember the dolphin/tuna change.

    There is no reason that we humans have to foster such absolute abuse and cruelty - not to say disgusting methodology of breeding, raising, and slaughtering animals for our consumption. What we have done to the domesticated animals is an abomination of the highest order - anyone who has visited or seen a video of a factory farm for poultry, pork, or beef would for the most part be shocked and how the animals are raised...

    As for dogs and cats - GET YOUR ANIMALS FIXED STUPID-- there is NO reason to have an intact pet - none whatsoever. I believe the AKC does not do enough to limit 'licensed' breeders. It's absolutely ridiculous to hear that organization talk about animal welfare - Anyone with a few bucks can become a breeder of "AKC" dogs.

    to Eric-716...with over 6 MILLION dogs and cats put 'to sleep' each year (not counting the hundreds of thousands of dogs dumped in the woods or...shot, drowned, electrocuted, hung, etc) we could go a long long long time not needing a million breeders selling their AKC dogs... I moved to Gainesville Florida - with a population of just over 100,000 - with over 50 animals put to sleep every 6 days!!! (closed on the Lords day of course)....No spay and neuter law? Give me a break!

    • Posted By: no mugwump @ 05/30/2008 2:16:07 AM

      You do know that PETA and the Humane Society kill 1000's of pets everyday because they think that keeping a pet is like slavery. I love animals but not more that humans.

    • Posted By: rain*man @ 12/16/2007 9:37:22 AM

      Please give US a break Janice! Most americans do know where our double chees comes from and we LIKE it. Animals were not "domesticated" for our pleasure but rather for food and to work for us. The only thing I agree with you on is it being wrong to abuse animals. So let's DO get them all fixed so there will be none. A little knowledge never hurts either so I'll give you some...the AKC does not regulate or control "breeders in any fashion....they merely certify pure breeding (on an honor system at that).
      In your last line you show respect for the Lord...more knowledge...The Lord gave us the dominance we enjoy over this world. That by no means gives anyone the right to abuse it. So please do the pet population a favor and have your moranic ideas spayed or nuetered....Oh, and be sure to apologize to your celery when it screams as you bite it's ba...err.... neuter it........

  • Posted By: JosieP @ 12/30/2007 12:30:56 AM

    What I find interesting in reading all these posts is that no one has commented how children who hurt, torture, and/or kill animals can often grow up to be murderers if there is no intervention to address the behavior. As someone who has worked in the public school system for many years, unfortunately I have seen it happen. There is research to support this. I support Mr. Pacelle's work 100% and support all efforts to ban and outlaw animal abuses practices all in the name of money, entertainment, and sport.

    • Posted By: no mugwump @ 05/30/2008 2:12:36 AM

      I received a 22 rifle for Christmas when I was 8 year old. I shot rabbits and pheasants and sage rats and frogs and birds and lots of rocks and cans. Some of the birds I shot was wrong and I came to know that. So far I have not murdered or injured anyone. But where do you live Josie?

  • Posted By: no mugwump @ 05/30/2008 2:08:14 AM

    What does Pacelle think about the thousands of pets killed and thrown in dumpsters within hours of picking them up by PETA? How about the vandelism and fire bombings labs that use animals for research. The stalking, threats, and assults on researchers. These are the people and facilities that develop medical drugs, treatments, and surgical methods for humans and animals. The most dangerous terrorists in the US are animal and environmental terrorists. PETA and both Humane Societies are narrow minded and violent organizations to both humans and animals. The raving liberal left and the agressive right are equally dangerous.

  • Posted By: Brien Comerford @ 05/12/2008 8:18:35 PM

    Wayne Pacelle personifies proactive compassion in action with his deep reverence for the lives of all creatures great and small.

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  • Posted By: rescueapit @ 02/20/2008 1:17:34 AM

    The Lord gave Christians dominion over animals, not dominance, Rainman. A king has dominion over his subjects, that doesn't mean he has the right to torture them before he eats them.
    I am so hopeful that Pacelle will improve the lives of animals. I have never heard of slaughter workers being prosecuted for animal cruelty, but Pacelle has made it happen. I am so relieved that things might change. I just watched two horrific pig farm videos the other day, and I'm still sick to my stomach. I cry everytime I think about it. I can't understand how they could get away with that. My husband's friend was over, and he watched it with me. He was disgusted as well and vowed not to eat pork again. I'm grateful that Pacelle is on my side and that he is making progress. There finally is a possibility that these animals might be spared the unspeakable cruelty so many of them have already endured.

  • Posted By: eric-716 @ 11/29/2007 11:16:03 AM

    Obviously Bennet despises purebred dogs...

  • Posted By: eric-716 @ 11/29/2007 11:08:20 AM

    Animal rights radicals like bennett would like you to believe that any and all dog breeders are substandard "puppy mills".
    Also read the 12 steps of the animal rights agenda http://www.mofed.org/The%20Twelve%20Steps%20Agenda.htm
    #10- 10. We strongly discourage any further breeding of companion animals, including pedigreed or purebred dogs and cats. Spay and neuter clinics should be subsidized by state and municipal governments. Commerce in domestic and exotic animals for the pet trade should be abolished.

    Where will pets come from again, bennet in 10-20 years if this became true?

    "Better dead than bred" is one of the animal rights slogans.


  • Posted By: bennett6252 @ 11/23/2007 4:31:43 AM

    Since the AKC now makes MOST of its money registering Puppy Mill puppies, the AKC is responsible for the "downfall" of the purebred dog.

    Not to mention the horrible genetic problems that purebred dogs have, including "show dogs."

    Meanwhile purebred dog lobbying groups lobby against adopting, and for breeding more and more and more in the puppy mills.

  • Posted By: rodsandra @ 11/22/2007 5:46:59 PM

    If only more people would stand against, the hideous abuse and exploitation of animals like Wayne Pacelle and other animal rights/welfare organizations do, we could see some changes. What an excellent example of one person's diligence and the capability to inspire others to speak for the animals, get active and never give up. Thanks Wayne!

  • Posted By: georgiasweetie @ 11/20/2007 2:38:31 PM

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  • Posted By: Bobbee @ 11/18/2007 10:14:51 PM

    One by one, family by family, community by community, we change our attitudes and behavior on behalf of non-human animals and change human culture positively. This week, and every day, be thankful for other species, our kin and allies on Earth.

  • Posted By: Bobbee @ 11/18/2007 10:11:34 PM

    Changing attitudes and behavior on behalf of non-human animals changes human culture positively, one by one, family by family, community by community. Be thankful this week, and every day, for the kinship and existence of all species on Earth.

  • Posted By: creativelabs @ 11/17/2007 1:27:22 PM

    Eric, in response to your earlier post, the Humane Society of the United States is rated a 4-star (out of 4 stars) charity by Charity Navigator.

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