Humane Bites #14: Is Bill Gates Part of the Problem?

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

• If you still have a Microsoft "hotmail" account, you're part of the problem.
• Just a reminder: "American Humane is not affiliated with the Humane Society of the United States, an organization that primarily uses litigation and legislation to promote animal rights"
• Colorado letter-writer raises awareness (hat-tip!)
• 12,000 people sign petition to sack Michael Vick
  
• Buckeye ag spokesman is keeping Wayne Pacelle honest (well … trying to, anyway)
• The helpful HSUS oracle hath spoken: "A good quality breeder breeds the dogs in their homes"
• Kansas State Collegian columnist: Animal agriculture "should be left to those within and around the industry who know what they are doing and who don’t take the word of animal rights groups as gospel"
• Food blogger: HSUS "is run by a group of smooth talking, well dressed philosophy, history and English majors—no one on their board of directors has any agricultural experience."