The news in Washington over the past week or so has been dominated by news that the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt entities division improperly targeted conservative-leaning organizations for extra scrutiny. And while the national press asks who knew what and when, a leading animal liberation group might soon find itself wrapped up by the scandal: The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), not to be confused with your local pet shelter. The Director of the IRS division implicated in using the improper targeting, Lois Lerner,...

> Read More

While Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) President and CEO Wayne Pacelle cavorts with Hollywood celebrities, local shelters desperately try to help homeless pets find homes from dilapidated buildings with leaky roofs. That’s the message of a Fox Nashville report that reminds local donors that money given to HSUS doesn’t necessarily trickle down to local pet shelters. And you don’t have to take the reporter’s word for it, either. A former director of the Humane Society of Dickson County (local humane societies are not affiliated...

> Read More

Normally, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) — the latest entrant to the drone market — takes every media hit it can performing stunts to oppose the killing of animals. Whether for clothing, eating, or curing AIDS, you can be sure PETA “lettuce ladies” will be out in force trying to stop the use of animals. However, when it comes to homeless pets, PETA doesn’t mind the killing of animals; in fact, PETA itself kills dogs and cats wholesale. State regulatory filings show...

> Read More

A heartwarming story from Portsmouth, Virginia is crossing the wires: A dog found near death by animal control and sent to the Portsmouth Humane Society has been adopted and is doing well in the care of her new owner, a veterinary technician. The dog — named “Hope” by Portsmouth Humane staff — was lucky to survive, as news reports indicated that she was so emaciated and swarmed by flies that animal control officers thought she was dead when they found her. The dog was lucky for...

> Read More

By: Rick Berman Newspaper: The Des Moines Register In America, we all know the customer is king. But what if that customer not only wants to be king, but emperor, too? Imagine you have a customer who badmouths your business to the media, complains that you don’t have the right products and thinks he knows better than you how to run your business. You’d be annoyed at such brazen arrogance, to put it mildly. Pork farmers were similarly outraged (I’ve spoken to them) upon reading a recent guest...

> Read More

By: Rick Berman Newspaper: Lexington Herald Leader The complaints from the Humane Society of the United States (not affiliated with any Kentucky humane societies) about the state Board of Agriculture's standards on animal care have no credibility ("Agriculture board approves livestock care standards despite objections," March 27). Not only does HSUS have zero livestock veterinarians on its executive staff, but it has an ulterior agenda to end animal agriculture completely. HSUS's food policy director, a former PETA activist, has wildly compared using farm animals for food to the Nazi Holocaust....

> Read More

Claiming that vegetarianism is just about to break through, this time is a classic animal liberationist tactic to peer-pressure omnivores into giving up their milk, bacon, and eggs. We covered a story last week that said all the cool pre-tweens were going veggie—a report that was full of more holes than Swiss cheese. Now the Voice of America claims that the nation’s meat tooth is dying and all the cool newspapermen are “going veg.” (Should they fall off the wagon like Ozzy Osbourne or treat...

> Read More

In a Friday filing, United States District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan found that Feld Entertainment — the parent company of the Ringling Brothers circus — was entitled to attorneys’ fees in a longstanding litigation by a series of animal rights and animal liberation groups. To call it longstanding is almost an understatement: Sullivan dismissed the suit in late 2009, which was affirmed by a circuit court in 2011, finding that a number of animal rights groups lacked the legal authority to file suit claiming —...

> Read More

The sordid tale of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) doggy-and-kitty-killing ways has made a big splash across the pond, and a reporter with the Sunday edition of The Guardian sat down with the group’s president, Ingrid Newkirk, to let her explain herself. At the end of the profile, the reporter challenges Newkirk to explain why PETA kills so many pets. The reporter notes: Yet the number you [PETA] put down, in one small area of the United States, is one third of the...

> Read More

Our objections to the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) report attacking restaurants for their kids’ meal offerings received wide coverage. The Los Angeles Times and CNN.com both reported our criticism of CSPI’s “blame game,” as did numerous local NBC affiliates. The Daily Mail reports that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) campaign to propagandize children may have recently crossed another line, as if trying to cram its animal liberation ideology into school curriculums, to “traumatize” children with graphic displays, and featuring convicted...

> Read More