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Subject: [petlaw] Sucker, Can You Spare a Dime (for HSUS)? (CCF)

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news...a-dime-for-hsus

http://tinyurl.com/ycs8mt8

November 17, 2009

Sucker, Can You Spare a Dime (for HSUS)?

Wayne Pacelle, president of the animal-rights advocating Humane Society
for the United States (HSUS), sent out an urgent appeal yesterday: HSUS
needs to raise $25,000 in order to run pressure ads to badger a
restaurant company into using only “cage free” eggs. We have to wonder:
With a $100 million annual budget and $200 million in the bank, doesn’t
HSUS already have enough cash to throw its PETA-inspired weight around?
After all, it’s not like HSUS’s bottom line is burdened by, say,
contributing any more than 4 percent of its budget to the real “humane
societies” that operate hands-on dog and cat shelters.

If the past is any indication, this is just another animal-rights
switcheroo. You might remember that after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005,
the tel-evangelical Pacelle went on national TV and pledged to reunite
pets with their owners. HSUS, of course, just needed people to send in
checks.

How’d that work out? In May, investigative reporters at Atlanta's WSB-TV
did an exposé on the murky finances and accounting of HSUS following its
Katrina money haul. (An alternate link to the report is here). WSB
reported that of the $34 million that HSUS raised in the wake of
Katrina, only $7 million could be publicly accounted for. Is it any
wonder that the Louisiana Attorney General opened an 18-month-long
investigation?

Let’s not forget that HSUS has an abysmal record of waste when it comes
to its fundraising. A 2008 Los Angeles Times investigation found that
less than 12 percent of money raised for HSUS by California
telemarketers actually ended up in the animal rights group’s bank
account. (The rest was kept by the telemarketing firm.)

It’s laughable to see the head preacher of a $100 million animal-rights
megachurch practically begging for another $25,000. Picture Bill Gates
holding a sign that says “Will work for food.” (Of course, money sent to
Microsoft just might bring something of value in return.) But what’s not
so funny is this: For every dollar Pacelle shakes out of the naïve and
unwise, farmers and research scientists move one step closer to holding
that sign themselves.

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