Rick Berman Attacks the Humane Society

So now the problem is that HSUS IS NOT part of the local shelter system?

Since you are obviously not a member, why are you complaining about being "deceived". You sound like you've been reading to many CCF sites or maybe that idiotic "AR-HR" (Animal Rights or Human Responsibility) site. Probably more appropriately called "Animal Rights or Corporate Profits". The actually have an ad campaign about HSUS "deception", even though it is obviously run by a disgruntled dog breeder going by the name of "Erica Saunders". He or she does nothing but complain about HSUS puppy mill raids and other animal abuse exposures. The breeders and animal profiteers have all got their fangs out because somebody is threatening their cash cow and they may actually have to get a job!

Well, good for HSUS!

To be honest, a lot of local shelters are pretty awful. As the previous poster pointed out, many sell animals into vivisection. Animals in 20 counties in North Carolina are gassed because a vet on the state rabies board makes and sells gas chambers. In Oregon, they had to pass a state law forbidding shelters from using animals for fur. They still trap and sell cats to sell for class room disection in Portland.

So, it really just depends. Animals need voices in government just like everybody else. At least the HSUS doesn't grease palms. It is also not the "mindset" of people who support and /or donate to HSUS that they are a shelter. It sounds like you are the one who is being deceived, or more likely is trying to deceive.

The Humane Society of the U.S. campaigns to phase out and eventually eliminate all animal testing, for the sake of animals and humans, as do many humane groups, doctors and scientists. Animal testing is a money making scam, designed to push unsafe drugs out onto the market and keep vivisectionists employed. It is cruel, unnecessary and gives conflicting and useless data. 92 % of all drugs that pass animal tests, fail human trials. According to HSUS website:

"More than 150 million animals—including mice, rats, birds, fish, rabbits, guinea pigs, farm animals, dogs, cats, and non-human primates—are used as experimental subjects each year throughout the world. ....The Humane Society is committed to reducing that number to zero through the use of science, law, educational outreach, government lobbying, and the support of our more than 10 million members worldwide to promote more valid and humane methods of scientific research and product testing."

http://www.hsus.org/hsi/animal_experiments/animal_use_statistics/

See also HSUS positions on animal research:

http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/general_information_on_animal_research/hsus_position_statements/

HSUS does not run city and county humane societies, in Texas or anywhere else. If the HSUS does not support animal testing, they certainly don't support pound seizure. CCF 's main client, Phillip Morris tobacco, still does tons of animal testing. PM helped delay warnings on cigarettes for 20 years because of animal testing. They are big into monkey and dog torture. if CCF and PETA supported animal testing, they wouldn't be on CCF's hit list. One of the many reasons CCF attacks animal groups is because of their position on animal testing. The other one is food issues. CCF is very pro factory farming, meat, dairy, fast food , etc. HSUS has exposed a number of slaughter house and factory farm abuses. (Only the tip of the iceberg as they are all filthy hell holes.) The only time in history that slaughter house workers were prosecuted for animal cruelty, was after an HSUS investigation in 2008 of a California slaughter house. It was such a horror show it had to be closed down. It was supplying "USDA certified" meat for school lunches.

CCF is there to keep the propaganda machine going. Their one and only reason for existence is to do the dirty work for their corporate masters.

The other main opponents of the HSUS are the NRA and the hunting lobbies. Hunters are a loud minority. There is nothing "sporting" or necessary about shooting and trapping defenseless animals. Hunters don't simply shoot deer, they shoot wolves, coyotes, foxes, bears and other natural predators. They participate in many cruel methods of hunting, which can only be described as sadistic torture. That includes "canned" hunting; throwing coyotes and other animals into fenced enclosures so their dogs can "practice" on them by tearing them apart; steel leg hold traps; drowning sets and various other "fun" and sporting activities. Mother nature does not need hunters to thin out deer populations, she needs them to leave wild life alone and stop upsetting the balance by killing animals for "sport".

The hunters and the gun slingers are afraid of somebody taking their weapons away or telling them that can't shoot at anything that moves. Nobody can say anything nice about the HSUS or any animal group that doesn't send them into fits of sputtering rage. I hope the next time you watch the news and our daily blood bath of murder and mayhem, you think of the good folks at the NRA and a gun for every criminal that wants one! How ironic that groups responsible for so much death, who get their kicks out of shooting, maiming and tormenting animals, should call animal rights advocates "extremists".

I don't know who is feeding you this line, but it is irresponsible to simply repeat half baked propaganda. In the time it took you to post this disinformation on a public message board, you could have simply visited their website and found this out for yourself. It's not a case of which animals are important and which are not. All animals are suffering now. The last time I looked, they were all God's creatures.