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Have you been duped into clicking "Like" on HumaneWatch's Facebook group?
HumaneWatch regularly purchases Facebook ads featuring cute puppies and kittens in an attempt to deceive animal lovers and inflate their Facebook membership.
Most people don't explore the group after clicking the "Like" button. If they did, they'd find that HumaneWatch is not what they claim to be.
HumaneWatchers...
- equate crush videos with undercover footage from animal protection groups exposing cruelty
Why should HSUS be allowed to profit from its own collection of animal cruelty movies if no one else can?
-- HumaneWatch, Apr. 23, 2010H$U$ and all the other groups out there would still be permitted to film (and creatively edit) footage, then broadcast it... while they PROFIT from it, right?
-- Dannielle Romeo, HumaneWatch columnist, Aug. 4, 2010
- defend cruel intensive confinement systems like battery cages, veal crates, and gestation crates
The so-called "humane" free-range egg production method might not translate into any real animal-welfare benefits for chickens.
-- HumaneWatch, Mar. 9, 2010I have no idea where people get the idea that caged birds and hogs in crates are uncomfortable or miserable. It is better for them to be confined.
-- Ben Howard, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Jun. 21, 2010Last weekend a series of devastating tornadoes tore through northern Indiana and Ohio... leaving little in their wake but twisted barns, ripped-up roads, and uprooted trees. Oh... and lots of healthy (if a bit scared) pigs. Why? They were in gestation crates.
-- HumaneWatch, Jun. 10, 2010
Have you ever seen a "cage-less" facility?? It just means that all those chickens are now on the floor. In a barn. There is no possible way to keep thousands of chickens outside running freely in the grass.
-- Lisa Renay, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Oct. 13, 2010Anyone who supports banning gestation crates simply knows nothing about hogs.
-- Mark Klaus, HumaneWatch Facebook group, May 5, 2010No one used gestation crates 30 years ago. It was only a technology that was invented to raise hogs in a more humane way. ... Sows are more comfortable in this peaceful setting.
-- Mark Klaus, HumaneWatch Facebook group, April 28, 2010I'm glad it was correctly stated that her specialty is animal BEHAVIOR, not animal husbandry. There is a huge difference. To me, it equates to the diference in a psychologist, and a general care doctor. You wouldn't go to your psychologist for heart surgery, and you wouldn't go for therapy to a heart surgin. She is no more an expert in animal CARE then the thousands of students that graduate with an Animal Science degree every year.
-- Mark Klaus on Temple Grandin, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Oct. 15, 2010 - advocate massacres of baby seals for the benefit of the environment
Doesn't HSUS complain when people kill seals? Why aren't the activists pestering the killer whales?
-- HumaneWatch, Feb. 24, 2010Without a seal hunt, you see, that whole predator-prey thing (you know, Nature) takes over. And among other consequences, the Atlantic cod population could collapse.
-- HumaneWatch, Feb. 17, 2010
- demonize, ridicule, and attack vegans
...So what, you're a vegan, and you say that saves animals... you want to push mandates on others for the guilt you feel for being alive, you can start with yourself. I'm sure there are any number of tall buildings, large bridges, or cliff sides. Take a flying lesson and stop killing animals with your continued existence.
-- Dannielle Romeo, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Apr. 30, 2010HSUS’s nutty vegan doc resumes his ridiculous scare campaign against meat and fish...
-- HumaneWatch, Sep. 24, 2010Personally, I will believe that HSUS and Farm Sanctuary are in favor of "humane" meat production on the day that their leaders join me in eating it.
-- HumaneWatch, Feb. 19, 2010Vegans... aren’t merely political, they are also radical and extremist.
-- "Pica", HumaneWatch blog, July 9, 2010 - trivialize the improper labeling of fur garments as "faux fur"
Organizers put five coats on display that they said were purchased during the last six months in local stores, all supposedly lacking an accurate label description of their fur content... Let me get this straight: This is the horrible injustice that HSUS needs a state law to fix?
-- Dannielle Romeo, HumaneWatch, Apr. 19, 2010 - demand the slaughter of horses for meat in the U.S.
[A]lthough there’s nothing illegal about slaughtering horses for human consumption, the practice is halted as a practical matter... The animal rights group doesn’t seem to have a problem with euthanizing horses, but it continues to oppose processing them for meat. This has created a cash crunch for horse owners all over America.
-- HumaneWatch, Jun. 27, 2010Closing the Illinois slaughterhouse for horses has lead to greater prolonged suffering for more horses.
-- "Rick", HumaneWatch blog, Nov. 13, 2010The financial, emotional and environmental drain the thousands of unwanted horses have on our society could be avoided if horse slaughter were an option.
-- "Bobbie", HumaneWatch blog, May 25, 2010If groups like HSUS hadn't caused the horse slaughter facilities in the US to be closed down our growing problem of unwanted horses wouldn't be the big issue that it is today. With no outlet to send unwanted horses they have just created another animal welfare issue.
-- HumaneWatch, Apr. 28, 2010 - oppose regulation of puppy mills
[P]hrases like "puppy mills," "factory farms," and "canned hunts"... are often just cooked up to generate emotional reactions (and donations) from ordinary Americans.
-- HumaneWatch, Mar. 17, 2010NO ONE has the right to tell someone how they can live or conduct their business. Everytime a law is passed, someones constitutional rights are being chipped away. Sorry, but my rights are MUCH more important than that of dogs.
-- Colleen Michaels, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Nov. 11, 2010
This bill will infringe upon the rights of the private animal owners and farmers! If the "animal rights/welfare" people had been doing their jobs well all these years maybe we wouldn't have the issues in Mo that we do!
-- Joyce Slatton on Prop B, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Oct. 14, 2010There are currently under 1,500 licensed kennels. Last I heard there were 13 inspectors. A adequate # for the # of kennels.
-- Rhonda Smith on Prop B, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Oct. 18, 2010HSUS and Wayne Pacelle don't give a flying fig about puppies! Prop B is about CONTROL...a "nudge" to begin the process of eliminating pets, abolishing the livestock industry and in the words of Mr. Pacelle, leading to "the extinction of domestic animals."
-- Marcia Behr, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Oct. 14, 2010I personally believe self-policing of every industry is the best policy....
-- Mark Klaus, HumaneWatch Facebook group, May 4, 2010If this passes, one amendment can change the word "dog" into horses or cows or chickens or goats or any other animal. It's their foot in the door.
-- Colleen Slaughter (a/k/a Diamonddoodles Puppies), HumaneWatch Facebook group, Oct. 18, 2010 - condemn charities and shelters that assist in the rescue of abused animals
PETA wants to kill your animals, and HSUS wants to outlaw your ownership of them... I think America needs a lesson in compassion instead of instant judging of others.
-- Katie Dokken, convicted animal abuser and avid HumaneWatcher, HumaneWatch Facebook group, July 9, 2010
I have seen more deplorable conditions in shelters than I have EVER seen at a breeders!
-- Erica Eblin, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Nov. 10, 2010Oh, but the shelter workers won't blame the BS law; they'll blame the big, bad breeders for having so many dogs and having to unload them or be shut down. They'll make up stories of "rescuing" these poor dogs from near death in horrible conditions and slap excessive "adoption" fees on them, all the while looking for reasons NOT to "adopt" to the vast majority of wonderful potential owners. Then they'll claim there aren't enough homes out there for dogs.
-- Cathy Merchant, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Nov. 3, 2010I would hope that when a group illegally raids someones' property, stealing his animals, his ability to support himself and his reputation that people will be very angry and bitter. Where is the compassion for the wronged?
-- Amy VandeWeerd, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Nov. 9, 2010
There is a large national rescue... here in CO looking for space.... They already go to the auctions down there and bring back dogs... Every dog that comes in will have some bad luck story about how they rescued it from a fate worse than death. People will be screened and rejected--it's a Dog!!!
-- Cindy DeBerge, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Nov. 3, 2010There is no over-population problem in the U.S. That is nothing more than Animal Rights Kool-aid.
-- Katie Dokken, convicted animal abuser and avid HumaneWatcher, HumaneWatch Facebook group, Aug. 6, 2010 - attack animal protection charities
This I believe is an example of H$U$ fund raising tactics: "90 Dogs Rescued from NJ Puppy Mill"
-- Lori C. Barva Rogers, convicted animal abuser and avid HumaneWatcher, HumaneWatch Facebook group, May 13, 2010HSUS doesn't run a PET shelter or sanctuary. Important distinction. They do have a lovely "roadkill rehab" in Florida, but that doesn't bring in the $bucks$ the way pictures of dogs and cats do.
-- HumaneWatch on the five animal sanctuaries that provide direct care to more animals than any other organization, June 1, 2010If HSUS gets its way we will all lose our pets and our way of life as well. A radical group of fascists who want to force their way of life on the rest of us.
-- "Dave", HumaneWatch blog, Sep. 25, 2010Do you think it is fair to wipe out all the pets and animals on earth? That is what The HSUS is trying to do.
-- "Linda Jean", HumaneWatch blog, Nov. 1, 2010
These are not the statements of animal lovers!
We invite you to explore the facts and learn the truth about HumaneWatch, why it was founded, and where it gets its money.
If you agree that attacking charities for pay is disgusting, that a "nonprofit" that funnels 92% of its "donations" into the pockets of one man is deceptive, and that animal cruelty for profit is never acceptable, we invite you to join us in our efforts to expose this smear campaign against animal protection groups. Here's how you can help.
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