Do NOT Donate To The Humane Society

This holiday season, donate to your local homeless doggy and kitty shelter, not HSUS.

If you donate to the Humane Society of the United States for
supporting the homeless doggies and kitties in your local animal
shelter, you’ve likely been suckered by one of Big Green’s most
notorious propaganda mills.

HSUS is a radical no-meat, anti-hunting, anti-gun octopus that spends
millions swallowing other animal groups whole, but habitually gives less
than 1 percent of its annual revenue to a few selected local shelters.
It’s not that they can’t afford it — they raked in $101.6 million last
year alone.

HSUS got so big because of CEO Wayne Pacelle’s takeovers of the
extremist Fund for Animals and the respectable Doris Day Animal League,
in what he calls “corporate combinations.”

That, and his ability to create high-profile projects like disaster
relief crews that swoop stranded cats and dogs from flooded housetops
while the TV cameras watch — then quietly dump them on nearby shelters
without so much as a dime’s worth of support.

Pacelle gets the credit, the grunts get the critters.

In 2008, the Los Angeles Times said, Pacelle couldn’t get more aggressive without some CGI movie magic.

Most local animal shelters have caught on to him. Many prominently
display signs and Web site disclaimers reading “Not affiliated with the
Humane Society of the United States.”

They’re angry that HSUS spent $22.3 million last year siphoning $51.9
million from animal lovers so they could lobby against “factory
farmers,” harass hunters and anglers, file lawsuits against circuses and
animal acts, and muscle farmers and ranchers into bankruptcy.

Two weeks ago, Brandon Hunnicutt, president of the Nebraska Corn
Growers Association, told its annual meeting that HSUS is not out to
change agriculture, “they’re out to completely destroy it” — the living
embodiment of lawyer Christopher Manes’ 1992 book, “Green Rage: Radical
Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization.”

But HSUS literature and news releases don’t give you a clue. Last
week, HSUS campaign director Paul Shapiro — who once climbed atop a
McDonald’s at lunch hour with a “No Meat” banner — told KOLN-TV News in
Lincoln, Neb., “The HSUS has about 11 million supporters across the U.S.
These are supporters that donate to the organization.”

That’s odd. Supporters who donate get the membership magazine. The
HSUS 2009 Form 990 says HSUS sent out its bimonthly membership magazine
to 450,000 people — and there are penalties for filing false IRS
reports.

But it’s a standard Big Green tactic: They lie.

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