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King, being up in Canada, you may not be familiar with the Humane Society of the United States. This group has nothing to do with the local Humane Society which cares for abused and unwanted animals. HSUS (Humane Society of the United States) is an extremist animal rights groups that at times makes groups like PeTA look like moderates. HSUS is a lobbying group and nothing more. They deliberately use their name to fool people into donating money to them believing the moeny will be used to help abused and unwanted animals since a lot of people are not aware of the differences between HSUS and the local Humane Society.
There is nothing good or positive that can come from this group.
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JM, agree. I don't see the extremists, however, as the problem. It's the"moderate" groups who know all the communications tools and how to use them, who organize so much better, widely and pervasively, to bring corporations and various levels of government around to their views.
They use the same carrot-and-stick I do as a good rule for making public policy. It's education in the best sense: through the economic. Words and abstract notions aren't enough. The antis built from the ground up, not leaving anything to hired gunslingers, and board rooms are paying attention.
In a globally competitive world, consumers are demanding "value added" from businesses. If you want us to buy your wood products, computers, papers and magazines, cars etc you had better listen to us, they say. The days are long gone when we waited breathlessly for Detroit's new models.
The antis didn't crash the barricades, as we do. They made an end-run.
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King, HSUS is very well funded, very well organized, and they are in the local, state, and federal legislatures. They should not be taken lightly by anyone.
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The American way, is to be self-reliant. You just gotta work around the end-run. Buy a hunk of nature - and let the geeks do what they do!
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I urge everyone to join the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance (info@ussportsmen.org). This group uncovers efforts to ban hunting, trapping, fishing, and even use of sporting dogs. USSA is a leader in taking steps to increase young hunters in this country. Currently, USSA is fighting the greatest threat to hunting ever seen in this country, a $100 million, 10-million donor organization consolidating the efforts of the Humane Society of the USA (HSUS), the Fund for Animals, and the Doris Day Animal League. Our local wildlife club got our local Humane Society to disavow affiliation with the national because of their recent anti-hunting campaign.
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Time to switch to Linux, boys.....I have.
Mike Doerner
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