Tag: animal rights movement

Businesses That Support Animal Rights

GW:  Guess I’ll have to change where I spend my money. 

Ever wonder which groups are supporting the animal rights movement through partnerships and dollars?  The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) works to end trapping and hunting.  On the group’s website, ASPCA boasts of partnerships with:

  • Bank of America
  • Lowes
  • Wal-Mart
  • CVS Pharmacies
  • Big Lots!
  • Family Dollar Stores
  • Morton Salt
  • Subaru
  • Walker’s Shortbread

Ironically, the Lowes outdoor dog kennels that ASPCA promotes online would become illegal in several states, if recently introduced laws prohibiting keeping dogs outdoors unsupervised, are passed. Who’s going to explain this self-induced predicament to the company and ASPCA?

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HSUS Doesn’t Like “The Grey” Flick

Last week, HSUS CEO Wayne Pacelle took to his blog to vent about a new Hollywood flick called “The Grey,” starring Liam Neeson. The basic plot is that a plane crashes in the frozen wilderness and Neeson and six other survivors struggle to make it back to civilization, while being molested by a pack of wolves.   Pacelle warned people to “stay away.” His gripe is that “The Grey”—a fictional movie—takes liberties with how grey wolves really act.

Pacelle’s solution is to watch “Babe”—a movie with talking animals—or “Bambi,” a Disney cartoon. Does anybody else see the irony here?

The political correctness coming from the animal rights movement is ridiculous. Read more

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PETA and HSUS at Odds Over Horse Slaughter

This from Humane Watch

There’s been a lot of press devoted recently to the possible (probable?) reinstatement of horse slaughter in the United States. As expected, HSUS made hay out of horse slaughter’s potential return—while, oddly, HSUS’s little sister in the animal rights movement, PETA, had a different take. Speaking to the Christian Science Monitor, PETA co-founder Ingrid Newkirk said:

It’s quite an unpopular position we’ve taken. There was a rush to pass a bill that said you can’t slaughter them anymore in the United States. But the reason we didn’t support it, which sets us almost alone, is the amount of suffering that it created exceeded the amount of suffering it was designed to stop. Read more

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