What is it with the “Animal rights” the HSUS with “Humane Choice” and Ellen Degeneres Halo Pet
Food. HSUS and it’s close friend against the Farming industry movement Ellen Degeneres with her Halo Dog Food. Ellen Degeneres a self proclaimed Vegan widely known to have promoted the public for supporters for Prop. 2 in California who held the largest Hollywood fundraiser for promoting Prop 2 against against the farming industry. As well as promoting the Vegan life style and belief on her TV show. Ellen Degeneres’s Halo pet food articulates about the quality of meat, chicken,lamb used to the recipes but not the Humane standards. Halo’s Spot’s Stew is made with whole egg. What are the standards of farms from which Halo’s whole eggs originate, since the HSUS asks this very question to many chains in the food industry. Has the HSUS bought stock in Halo Pet Food to have a shareholders say to demand Humane policies for it’s meat products. As the “whole egg” used in Halo’s pet food. Are these eggs conforming with the standards pushed by the HSUS agenda endorsed and supported by DeGeneres. Cage free eggs? I checked the label no mention. Or why hasn’t Halo Pet food earned the “Humane Choice Label”? I think this issue raises many interesting questions and conflicts. I read a blog from a BJboosinger whom asked similar questions. Are we the only ones that find all the HSUS agenda supported by Degeneres conflicting. It would make a good article for Humane Watch, Just a hint..I’m just not understanding how her special interest in Animal rights is not being questioned with her ownership interest in Halo Pet Food in light of some of the reasons I’ve stated above. The level of support for the HSUS against AG from Degeneres in my mind warrants some exposure of these interesting conflicts.  I-Hop, Subway so many corporations have been pushed to support the HSUS policies. This may be dog food, but aren’t these still the same cows,lambs,chickens as the restaurant industry? Will Halo’s Spot’s Stew be going “Cage Free”?

what’s the ability to use the flyer for these product sales, developed and heavily marketed by HSUS to challenge the 501(c)3 designation?

I’ll bet dollars against non-vegan dog food that that 10.5 million “constituents and supporters” represents the names currently in their mailing database.

Names of people like me. I love HSUS so much that if I saw Wayne Pacelle drowning in a lake, I’d toss him a steak on a rope.

Does anyone appreciate the irony of this “humane” dog food?

If a zoo fed its wild cats a vegetarian diet the AR groups would be (rightfully) screaming that the zookeepers were neglecting the nutritional needs of the animals - and even sue the zoo to stop them from feeding the vegetarian diet.

Horse slaughter has been decried as inhumane, and yet zoos do feed horsemeat as it is a natural protein source for carnivores.  AR groups have even said that if horse slaughter was banned. rescues and zoos would absorb all surplus horses. And yet they don’t want animals to eat animal protein the animals require to thrive.  (and horse rescues are full to bursting even without a slaughter ban - so much so that many are closing, or are being investigated for neglect, and some have turned out to be hoarders)

Circular thinking - no logic or common sense.

Dogs aren’t vegetarians.  One reasonable definition of abuse/neglect is determining if the animals nutritional and health needs are met.  Intentionally depriving any species of nutrition or food it has evolved to depend on is just plain unacceptable.

And people wonder why so many dogs these days have horrible skin problems, are obese, need joint replacements and have other horrible conditions.

This “humane” diet is BS.  If you love animals and are concerned about their health and welfare - feed them what they were designed to eat.  Stuffing them full of pearl millet and soy is guaranteed to make your dog sick and your vet rich.

First of all, dogs are not carnivores like cats, they’re omnivores. In fact, some dogs are allergic to certain kinds of meat and have to be on vegetarian diets. My friend’s shih tzu has been on such a diet for most of his life.

Second of all, the fact that you decry the Humane Society for wanting to put pet stores out of business makes me question what your true agenda is. At this point it is common knowledge that pet stores obtain their “merchandise” from puppy mills, where the abuse of animals is rampant.

Third of all, the problem of pet overpopulation leads to the deaths of thousands of animals a day in overcrowded shelters. Spaying and neutering is the only solution to this problem, and I fully support the HSUS in their campaign to get irresponsible pet owners to spay and neuter their animals.

I myself am a vegan, I own a dog and a cat, both shelter rescues, and while I feed them both meat at the present time, I am educating myself more about the possibility that my dog could remain healthy on a vegetarian diet. Because cats are obligate carnivores, I would not consider this for my cat. In doing internet research on the Humane Choice food, I came across this entry, and simply wanted to share the points that I felt were not addressed by the author.

Okay firstly…Dogs are Omnivores..they can live on an all veggie diet just as long as they get the right vitamin, minerals, amino acids, fiber and such….which if using the correct types of plants you can get them the nutrition they need. Or you can add supplements and they can grow up as happy and as healthy as a dog eating a normal good brand of dog food.

Cats however are strictly carnivores..they cannot synthesize taurine (Which they need for correct eye and heart function) on their own which they get from meat, they also cannot break down plants the same way as other animals. They could never survive on an all vegan or vegetarian diet.

And here’s how this goes…It’s a Business..this world is run by money..sadly, and money has a way of corrupting good intentions and makes people stray from their original goals. The humane societies aren’t all bad, they’ve done a lot of good things to. I know a lot of animals that have went from horrible situations to good homes. some of them should exist to do what they claim to do..other humane societies just shouldn’t, but it’s the people running those particular ones not the whole organization.. I know the ones in MO and IL are pretty good. I can’t speak up for them all. As for the Agriculture crap, that won’t pass..this country survives on it. Plus it would put DVMs, Techs, and others out of work…we already have a crappy economy…just be real.

@Dana C—to reiterate David, it also a myth that there is an “overpopulation problem”.  In 2006, 17 million households added a new pet.  In 2006, between 3 and 4 million pets were euthanized in shelters (down from 12-20 million in the 70s, taken directly from HSUS’ own statistics).  FOUR TIMES as many households added a new pet than were euthanized.  Frankly, there is simply no excuse for a shelter to murder a healthy, friendly, adoptable dog (cats are a little different).  Also notice that we have dropped the euthanasia rate by over 75% while the US population INCREASED.  Education is WORKING.  There is such a shortage of adoptable dogs in some areas that shelters in the northeast and northwest have taken to importing stray dogs from third world countries to feed the supply of homes wanting dogs.

@Vettech—I am also a veterinary technician.  You need to know that HSUS is NOT a shelter—it simply shares a name with the real hardworking true animal shelters all across the country—but they do no actual sheltering nor do they contribute to any sheltering.  Sad but true.