Nov 23 2011
Happy Thanksgiving from HumaneWatch
It’s Thanksgiving time again, so it didn’t shock us to see news stories of scantily clad “Puritans” from the notorious People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) handing out Tofurky. If you can’t guess from the name, Tofurky is a fake-meat, vegan replacement for turkey. The news reminded us of a little-known fact: Tofurky is the only food product bearing Humane Society of the United States’ logo.
We don’t care if you choose to eat Tofurky or the real thing. That’s each person’s decision to make. But it’d be nice if HSUS stopped pretending that it’s for “humane” meat, eggs, and dairy products when, in fact, it isn’t.
After all, in a moment of rare clarity a few years back, HSUS’s vice president for farm animal issues revealed that HSUS’s goal is to “get rid of the entire industry.” In other words, HSUS wants all Thanksgiving dinner tables to be turkey-free, and without pads of butter for the rolls. Somehow, that doesn’t make it into HSUS’s fundraising appeals.
If you want to read more about ungrateful activists, our executive director wrote about some—including HSUS and PETA—over at The Daily Caller. But we’d like to give some positive shout-outs instead of just pointing to HSUS’s deception.
First, we should thank the animals themselves, for providing us companionship, food, or whatever the case may be. We should thank farmers who raise their animals well. And we should thank pet shelters for caring for companion animals that need food and shelter.
It’s almost time for our second annual “Shelter Supply Saturday” event. But you should support your local pet shelter as much as you can throughout the year. And if you’re feeling particularly generous this Thursday, slip your own pets some food under the table.
Comments
I agree. Let’s thank God fot the millions of Americans that had a “place at the table” to choose what they wanted to eat—meat and/or veggies. Also, thank God for those that gave us the choice.
“After all, in a moment of rare clarity a few years back, HSUS’s vice president for farm animal issues revealed that HSUS’s goal is to “get rid of the entire industry.” In other words, HSUS wants all Thanksgiving dinner tables to be turkey-free, and without pads of butter for the rolls. Somehow, that doesn’t make it into HSUS’s fundraising appeals.”
First of all,let me say…Excellent article and prompt to get people involved.
I quoted the paragraph above because I think that the phrase revealed “get rid of the entire industry” has been misconstrued. I do not believe that HSUS wants to get rid of the industry. I believe, from information that I’ve uncovered, that HSUS wants to take over the industry to be able to sell their food or “friends food” on a more profitable scale such as Whole Foods Market and Nicolette Hahn Niman, wife of Bill Niman(rancher.)
I do believe what the gentleman meant was to get rid of the entire present industry to replace it with their own.
“Animal lovers, animal watchers, animal eaters, animal owners, animal professionals, and the animal-obsessed should all feel welcome in this corner of the blogosphere.”
I have just recently found your website and am very interested in what you have to say. I just want to clarify some things for my own mind. The quote above comes off your website. I admit to being all of these. BUT ,and even though I am one myself,I just don’t think the “animal eater” seems to fit in there with the rest of these. Like I said, I am one, sometimes I wish I was not, and I am pretty sure if I had to kill the animals myself I would not be an animal eater. I am for the humane treatment of these creatures that we eat in this world. And I seem to be leaning toward eating less and less of them. I am just curious. I would hate to find out that the other titles mentioned above are a cover up to promote the animal eaters’ desires, the “slaughterhouse’s” well being. Please, take no offense in this ,just give me your opinion and take on this subject.
“Animal lovers, animal watchers, animal eaters, animal owners, animal professionals, and the animal-obsessed should all feel welcome in this corner of the blogosphere.”
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I tried tofu once. It tasted exactly the way it sounds - like the fu from between your toes.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, HumaneWatch. I can’t count the number of people I’ve sicced onto your website. Keep up the great work!