All Missourians, but especially hunters and farmers, need to discover the truth about the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the organization that runs those TV ads featuring sad-looking dogs and cats and asking for your donations to help them find a good home.
Sounds good, but in reality HSUS is a major "animal rights" organization whose sole mission is to prevent people from using animals for any purpose such as hunting, pets or as meat for the table, and a donation to them won't help dogs and cats, just further this mission.
The reason that you need to know the truth about HSUS right now is because they've picked out Missourians as the next target of one of their legal maneuvers to fulfill this mission. They are beginning to gather signatures for a ballot initiative petition entitled "Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act", which in reality is their first step in a probable move to hinder or even stop Missourians from any use of animals, such as hunting or animal agriculture.
It's really interesting to find out what HSUS really does with the millions of dollars they collect from well-meaning, but not completely informed people.
Their 2008 tax forms reveal they collected over $86 million in contributions, but after salaries (41 of their employees made over $100,000 in 2008 and their CEO earned over $250,000), paying for TV ads, other fundraisers and operating expenses, and lobbying, they actually spent only 1/2 of 1 percent of their $86 million (a little over $450,000) to provide any care for cats and dogs. They paid $4.2 million to the organization they hired to count and process the money coming in!
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All Missourians, but especially hunters and farmers, need to discover the truth about the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the organization that runs those TV ads featuring sad-looking dogs and cats and asking for your donations to help them find a good home.
Sounds good, but in reality HSUS is a major "animal rights" organization whose sole mission is to prevent people from using animals for any purpose such as hunting, pets or as meat for the table, and a donation to them won't help dogs and cats, just further this mission.
The reason that you need to know the truth about HSUS right now is because they've picked out Missourians as the next target of one of their legal maneuvers to fulfill this mission. They are beginning to gather signatures for a ballot initiative petition entitled "Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act", which in reality is their first step in a probable move to hinder or even stop Missourians from any use of animals, such as hunting or animal agriculture.
It's really interesting to find out what HSUS really does with the millions of dollars they collect from well-meaning, but not completely informed people.
Their 2008 tax forms reveal they collected over $86 million in contributions, but after salaries (41 of their employees made over $100,000 in 2008 and their CEO earned over $250,000), paying for TV ads, other fundraisers and operating expenses, and lobbying, they actually spent only 1/2 of 1 percent of their $86 million (a little over $450,000) to provide any care for cats and dogs. They paid $4.2 million to the organization they hired to count and process the money coming in!
