BY Rob Lorei
On Radioactivity Friday we discuss the growth of policies that ensure animal welfare. Now more than ever, cosmetics companies are promising no-animal testing with their products, Amusement parks and circuses are moving away from using animals for entertainment, and more people are supporting rescuing pets rather than going to breeders.
Our guest today to talk about the economic movement for animal welfare is Wayne Pacelle, the President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States. He’s written a book called The Humane Economy:How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals.
Florida congressman Democrat Alan Grayson and Republican David Jolly—who are both running for their party’s US Senate nomination— will face each other in a live debate Monday. But they are choosing to do using an unusual debate model where the candidates will answer questions submitted and voted on by everyday citizens. And unlike some debate that require a TV cable subscription, the debate will be streamed online for free and is open to redistribution. Joining us to talk more on the debate is Congressman David Jolly from St. Petersburg and Lilia Tamm with the Open Debate Coalition.
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National animal rights
groups like the HSUS, PETA and the ASPCA have become urban
concentrated vegan cults. They raise millions of dollars by
pretending to take care of dogs and cats, then spend it on attacks on
agriculture and hunting. Local shelters complain about their
aggressive fund raising sucking up all the money, so animals go
wanting. ALL THREE HAVE CONCOCTED STORIES ABOUT ANIMAL ABUSE. They
have little or no experience with the animals they claim to protect
and either misconstrue legitimate animal
husbandry or take
isolated instances of animal cruelty and say they are the norm. Their
goal is to stop hunting by increments, passing laws against
individual methods of hunting or shorten hunting seasons.
They get away with this because of the urban population of the US
is separated from its food production and large or wild animals. The
country has become a society of small pet owners who view livestock
the same as small lap dogs. If these groups have their way, primates
will have the same rights as humans and meat eating will be
outlawed. According to Bloomberg Financial Reports, their attack on
food production is already causing an increase in cost. So unless
you want to end up paying $10.00 a doz. for eggs, $20.00 a lb. for
bacon $30.00 a lb. for chicken and $50.00 a lb. for beef, don’t
support these groups.
Randy, you’re quite the drama queen, aren’t you? Coming up with your own chicken little yarn about how HSUS and other groups just want to stop you from hunting. I wonder how much you rely on hunting as a food source versus how much you rely on it to compensate for your teeny weenie.
Sorry I don’t hunt. I barley got out of basic training using the M14. When I worked in a prison, I use a M1. One time I fired the 8 round clip and hit the target next to mine all 8 times. From then on, when I worked a gun tower, I was known as a danger to innocent bystanders. I have farmed. I have raised pigs, horses, chickens and run a few cattle. When I see the dribble put out by these crazy animal rights people, I just feel a need to protect farmers and ranchers. That is because, never in our history have so few feed so many and never in our history have so many lived so long and been so healthy. Our food is plentiful and inexpensive. If people listen to the crazy animal rights fanatics, we are going to be in a bad way. That includes you. I doubt you want to shovel cow shit or dig through chicken shit to get eggs. That is what you will have to do if these crazy people get their way.
For a long time Wayne Pacelle and other animal rights activist have been using “creative destruction” to change the way we use animals. Example, mutts to replace the purebred dogs vs purebred dogs in puppy stores. More expensive ways of raising animals when there is no health benefit. Studies have shown that Chickens raised “free range” are not as healthy though animal rights forces the laws to require more space. They also target companies to change their ways to free range chicken eggs like they are somehow better. Gestation crates which save approximately 50 percent of baby piglets that die by being laid on or trampled vs something that enhances productivity. This is creative destruction in Wayne’s world. Let us not forget the folding of SeaWorld as we knew it, another example of creative destruction. One has to ask what the price tag will be in the destruction of businesses in order that it will rise in Wayne Pacelle’s and other animals rights activist. Creative destruction came about in the 1940s, look it up. You may google Wayne Pacelle and creative destruction to find quotes. Mr. Pacelle has talked about this in his new book tour. I will say that for a philosophical moral movement humans have been put in peril in other ways by the misanthropic ideas of animal rights activist. It seems activist are full of hate for anyone who uses and animal from a pet to a cow, to lifesaving research. Yet to find a reason for animal rights over animal welfare! Animal rights is stepping way over the line.