Steve King Denounces Humane Society As 'Vegetarians With An Agenda'

...and the problem is?

Presumably, if ACORN changed their name to MEAT, they'd be okay in his eyes.

I hate to agree with Steve King, but he's not wrong. The HSUS doesn't actually run any humane societies, nor does it play a significant role in saving animals. It's pretty much PeTA.

So many conspiracies, so little time...

Actually PETA and HSUS are both anti-dog (can't speak for cats). They have both been going around the country promoting various restrictions on dogs and dog owners. Most show dog folks keep them on our "monitor" list.

I think a vegetarian diet makes environmental sense, am not a huge animal rights advocate. I am an advocate for every cat lady billionaire heiress taking a hatred to Steve King and diverting some of Mr. Wiggles inheritance towards radio ads making sure everyone knows that Steve King hates puppies, kittens and endorses clubbing baby seals.

I'm busy stocking my freezer before Obama takes away our meat.

Not your fathers' gop. Now gop stands for: God's offensive people

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Seriously, though, as a Midwesterner, I see where he's going with this. Meat is a big part of the culture out there, and many people are rightly resentful of the smug sense of moral superiority that a small number of militant vegetarians possess and of efforts PETA and a couple other fairly marginal groups to shame them. At the same time, they know that we're eating way too much meat and that that isn't good for us or the environment. Focus on the PETA assholes and you offer them a way to feel better about themselves.

My parents suffer the grave misfortune of living in King's district. I'm told that the Farm Bureau in that area refers to H1N1 flu as "the H," because calling it "swine flu" is part of a liberal conspiracy to get people to stop eating pork.

At a certain point, you really have to stop wondering what's wrong with people like Bachmann and King and start wondering WTF is wrong with a country where people who are clearly completely insane keep getting reelected to high public office.

Wasn't Rush involved with the Humane Society? No, I'm serious.

I'm guessing that King has never spent a few hours touring one of Iowa's many pork "factories." Hogs enter under their own power, are stunned, then bled, skinned, and butchered while they are still breathing. Problem is, not all hogs are adequately "stunned" before the bleeding, skinning, and butchering begin.

Sorry, and as much as I hate to say it, King has a point. First, you can expect this piece to be flooded by newcomers here to defend HSUS, because that's their MO. They mobilize quickly to get their employees and volunteers to post messages of support and point fingers at the messengers without refuting the facts. But HSUS uses misleading fundraising appeals, collects bucketloads of dollars, uses them for lobbying, pensions and executive salaries and pushing a Vegan agenda. While their commercials give the donating public the impression that their money will be used to help humane societies, homeless and abused animals, less than 1% of the money they collect is used to assist Humane Societies or shelters. Yes, they participate in dogfighting investigations and busts, as well as raids of puppy mills and hoarders. They then dump these dogs and cats on underfunded local shelters while they smile in front of the TV cameras and pose for glossies. The rest of the time they are lobbying for legislation which is detrimental to dogs and cats, despite being labeled as "anti-puppy mill" and other friendly sounding names. Mandatory spay neuter bills sound politically correct but actually result in increased shelter deaths. HSUS also aggressively pushes for the killing of pit bulls and policies against their adoption, regardless of temperament or history. When Michael Vick's operation was busted, HSUS used one hand to beg for money to save the Vick dogs, and the other to lobby for them to be killed. After Katrina, HSUS aggressively fundraised to save animals stranded or left homeless by the disaster. It took the threat of investigation by the State of Louisiana for HSUS to part with a dime of the money it collected. About a year ago, in Wilkes County, North Carolina, HSUS sent representatives to court to testify that the dogs and puppies (some not even weaned) from a dogfighting bust all should be killed, because they were too vicious to be rehabilitated and the cost of rehabilitation would be prohibitive. HSUS failed to tell the court that there were organizations skilled in rehabilitation clamoring to take the dogs at no cost. The dogs were all killed. A few months ago, HSUS mounted another fundraising drive using the image of Faye, a dog terribly injured in a dogfighting operation, asking would be donors to help them help Faye and dogs like her. However, Faye was not being helped by HSUS at that time. When the lie was outed in the blogosphere, HSUS coughed up $5000 for some of Faye's treatment, but it was too little, too late. Faye died. HSUS recently held an event where it aired a "clip video" taken at various egg farms in Iowa to show how cruel the conditions were, but kept out members of the press it deemed unfriendly to their "mission" and refused to release the remaining hours and hours of video taken to make the approximately seven minute film. Finally, two charity-grading organizations just downgraded HSUS's status.

Henry Bergh must be spinning in his grave.

Really? That's a very elitist attitude. Spaying a female can cost hundreds of dollars. It is a surgical procedure. And depending on where you live, the price of spaying/neutering can vary widely. Where I live, vet care is expensive. Neutering need not be expensive, but if there turns out to be an undescended testicle the price tag goes way up. And while there may be "lots" of low-cost spay neuter programs, they are not everywhere. It is well established that older people benefit greatly from having pets as companions. Should they be denied the right to pet ownership due to being on a fixed income? Again, I support spay/neuter, just not mandatory spay/neuter laws. Everybody benefits when we support low cost spay/neuter programs.

Sorry, and as much as I hate to say it, King has a point. First, you can expect this piece to be flooded by newcomers here to defend HSUS, because that's their MO. They mobilize quickly to get their employees and volunteers to post messages of support and point fingers at the messengers without refuting the facts. But HSUS uses misleading fundraising appeals, collects bucketloads of dollars, uses them for lobbying, pensions and executive salaries and pushing a Vegan agenda. While their commercials give the donating public the impression that their money will be used to help humane societies, homeless and abused animals, less than 1% of the money they collect is used to assist Humane Societies or shelters. Yes, they participate in dogfighting investigations and busts, as well as raids of puppy mills and hoarders. They then dump these dogs and cats on underfunded local shelters while they smile in front of the TV cameras and pose for glossies.

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