That last paragraph was the best part of the article. PETA and the HSUS both need to be knocked down a few pegs.

WEll Done and clear this is a travesty that HSUS can act without impunity for scamming the public.

Hey, check this out and help draw some much needed attention to the despicable and unscrupulous business practices of HSUS!!  And pass it on!!

http://tinyurl.com/7abq3r4

Thank you for the links in this article, the fact that the article as a whole generally puts forth an excellent argument for why I subscribe to Humane Watch. 

I wish, though, that we could see the details, or reference link, to this part “Pacelle sent a letter to Frederick County, MD (Culp’s employer) complaining about a “harmful” video posted on the HSSP website.”

As a free thinker who values my own ability to make up my mind about issues that I support, I like to be able to see all the data and make my own decisions.

There is enough abuse and cruelty for all sites to be listened to, and reported on for keeping monies meant to help the suffering animals!

Its a conflict of interest.She speaks for the animals and he speaks for his bank account.

For those who want more information, HSUS has been attacking Didi Culp in the Frederick News-Post newspaper. 

Animal shelter video riles Humane Society
Woman subject of ethics inquiry

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display_Comments.htm?section=a1&s\
toryID=129578#postComments

The same story covered on local radio:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=46&sid=2673774Â

Simple ethics
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_editorial.htm?StoryID=\
129791

Thanks for bringing thse serious matters involving HSUS to the forefront. The better educated and informed the unsuspecting public are, the more wary we can be of unscrupulous groups like the HSUS.

I’ve practically been ‘shouting from the rooftops’ to give to your LOCAL shelter. People are slowly becoming aware that HSUS, PETA and other AR groups want the end of ‘pets’ at least, and all animal usage (pet, food, showing, breeding, LOVING) should end.

Anyone that believes HSUS has been lobbying the government,
Follow the instructions below.

1. ******* http://wh.gov/WaF  Sign the White House petition to investigate the HSUS Lobbying********

Other links to sign the petition include: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petitions

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/investigate-humane-society-united-states-non-compliance-lobbying-disclosure-act-1995/42RtSR6W?tm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

  Be patient – with overuse the site is slow and will say it is down.  Just keep trying.  We have to reach the 25,000 by February 1, 2012.

Write your Reps about the Lobbying disclosure act.  For more information and instructions:
http://thecavalrygroup.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-call-to-action-by-frank-losey.html

Looking through the Humane Watch Document Library’s list of HSUS’s outgoing grants between 2008-2010, I found just $640 (in 2009) for the Tupelo-Lee Humane Society.  That money was raised from the public via the annual Spay Day Pet Photo Contest.  That same year, HSUS granted $1.5 million to Ohioans for Humane Farms (an HSUS- affiliated political group) for a ballot initiative that was canceled when Ohio’s agricultural community proved too difficult for Wayne Pacelle to control.  HSUS’s 2009 grants also included $450,000 to another affiliated lobbying group, Missourians for the Protection of Dogs. That money paid for a poorly crafted puppy mill ballot initiative that barely passed and was later transformed by local animal advocates and shelters into something that would actually address the problem of unethical, abusive breeders in the state.

Sunday, 1-08-11
ARSON SUSPECTED AT BEEF PROCESSOR
Coalinga, Calif.”...a blaze destroyed 14 big-rigs tractors and several trailers at Harris Farms cattle operation, the state’s largest cattle feeder, beef processor and beef marketer….”
Time will tell who the arsonists were. We need to follow this story to the finish and see the criminals caught and jailed.

An important fact left out of your expose. The HSUS is not the AHA. The Humane Society of the United States is not the American Humane Association. They admit on their own websites that they are in no way affiliated or a parent organization for local animal shelters. HSUS does not run shelters, does not coordinate shelters and for the most part, does nothing as an organization directly related to creating opportunities to shelter animals. (yes, they do assist shelters that share their views but they leave it to the shelters and the AHA to run what most of us know as the ‘American Humane Society’ local animal shelters, organized under the American Humane Association)
Furthermore, HSUS continually asserts that there is no name recognition confusion between them and the AHA/AHS. (as your own omission of this obvious fact seems to suggest is otherwise)
HSUS is a lobbying and propaganda dissemination organization for animal “rights” extremism and animal ‘liberation’ philosophies.  They tend to be pro-regulation, anti-personal liberty and by consequence anti human rights as a consequence. They have consistently been among if not the top money earners for such propagandist organizations historically and since merging with PeTA, they have assured that top spot for years to come as long as this recognition confusion persists.
Let people know! The HSUS is not the AHA. They do not run, operate or take any responsibility for the direct care and rescue of animals in your local AHS shelters!

Wild Webester:
You say that HSUS and PETA have merged.  WHEN?
This is news to me.  ME think you are wrong.