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Jul 30 2010

The Weekly Watch #22: Dog Food, Geese Roundups, and the U.S. Constitution

If you were reading HumaneWatch all week, you learned ...

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Posted on 07/30/2010 at 03:05 PM by the HumaneWatch Team
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Daily Humane Bites #113: If B-list Stars Smooch HSUS and No One Reads About It, Is It News?

Daily clippings culled from all over the electronic news world. (E-mail submissions for next week.)

Posted on 07/30/2010 at 02:54 PM by the HumaneWatch Team
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Jul 29 2010

Daily Humane Bites #112: Ohio Farmers Learn to Spell “C-A-R-P-E-T-B-A-G-G-E-R”

Daily clippings culled from all over the electronic news world. (E-mail submissions for tomorrow.)

Posted on 07/29/2010 at 03:45 PM by the HumaneWatch Team
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The Exchange Rate in Europe is Getting Ridiculous

On Tuesday we told you about how Humane Society International is claiming to be supported by 11 million people worldwide. Now, it's entirely possible that the Humane Society of the United States (which runs HSI) got its elevensies mixed up. $11 million in debt, 11 million members—you can see how easy it would be to confuse the two.

We suspected that HSI was inflating its membership numbers, but suspicion and proof are two different things. Today we have both.

The European Commission hosts a website called the "register of interest representatives." (Think of it like a Yellow Pages for European lobbyists.) And the entry called "Humane Society International" shows something very, very interesting.

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Posted on 07/29/2010 at 01:17 PM by the HumaneWatch Team
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Jul 28 2010

Daily Humane Bites #111: Outdoor Life blogger horrified: “My Vet Supports HSUS!”

Daily clippings culled from all over the electronic news world. (E-mail submissions for tomorrow.)

Posted on 07/28/2010 at 01:45 PM by the HumaneWatch Team
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Kibble Talkback (HSUS Walk-back?)

Yesterday HSUS began a new wave of promotion for its vegetarian “Humane Choice” dog food, starting with a note on its Facebook wall announcing that this "nutritious, delicious, and cruelty-free" kibble is available at some Whole Foods stores. (HSUS gets a cut of the price from each bag sold.)

Back in February we explored a number of reasons why this venture is a bad idea. Dogs aren’t meant to be vegetarians, for one thing. And it looks like most of HSUS’s own Facebook fans understand this.

While there are some supporters, the comments on Facebook are largely against the idea of selling a dog food containing no aninal protein. Here’s what some are saying about "Humane Choice," and about HSUS's decision to force its politics into the doggy dish:

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Posted on 07/28/2010 at 11:10 AM by the HumaneWatch Team
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The Eggless Omelet, California Style

Sacramento is (as one political writer recently quipped) "where good ideas go to die, and where bad ideas kill them slowly." It's also an iron-clad lobbying stronghold of the Humane Society of the United States.

On Saturday, the paper of record in California's capital published our op-ed about the politics of eggs in the Golden State. Here's a taste:

What's really at stake here is that word: "humane." HSUS seems to want a monopoly on it, even though other animal welfare-oriented groups – and plenty of scientists – disagree with its agenda. And that agenda is where the rubber meets the road: HSUS is run by vegans who don't believe anyone should eat eggs, regardless of how or where they were produced.

Most recently, HSUS has opposed attempts by California lawmakers to specifically define the standards mandated by Proposition 2. The very vague language that California voters approved in 2008 gives HSUS's enormous legal team enough wiggle room to hassle farmers who don't see things HSUS's way.

Of course, enriched chicken cages could be furnished with couches, Jacuzzis, treadmills and iPads, and activists who believe in "rights" for birds would still complain about them. HSUS is among them. And its vision of what's "humane" is outside the mainstream.

Click here to read the whole essay.

Posted on 07/28/2010 at 11:49 AM by the HumaneWatch Team
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