Please be the voice of our website in America, we can´t stand the manner in which the HSUS is acting these days!
http://www.reptilweb.no/reptilforum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=3725&p=29339#p29339
The tyrannical outreach of HSUS
The HSUS is very modest in their statement in my oppinion.
The HSUS is a formal cooperation partner in philosophy with Dyrevernalliansen, Dyrebeskytelsen and NOAH for animal rights in Norway.
If it turns out the HSUS allegations are true, we have a reason to believe that Norwegian animal rights rganizations have been making a profit out of tramping on the rights of the responsible reptile and amphibian breeders in Norway for more than three decades.
We also have a strong reason to believe that Mattilsynet, our food safety authority has been freezing "illegal" reptiles and amphibians to death needlessly for many years. We have further reason to believe that our state church is participating in the animal rights agends and there is even some evidence to suggest that the Norwegian animal rights organizations are the puppetmasters of oppinion to a significant part of the political sphere in our Kingdom.
Because of the animal rights organizations like Dyrerevernalliansen, Dyrebeskyttelsen, NOAH, and theor cooperation partners, HSUS, Peta, RCPCA, Pro Wildlofe, WSPA, ALF and several others, There is a total ban against 99.5% of responsible reptile and amphibian husbandry since 1976.
§1. It is illegal to import, sell, buy, give away or accept or in any other manner keep as companions or as captives in other way foreign (exotic) species of mammals, reptiles, toads, frogs and salamanders.
In case of doubt it is Mattilsynet (The Food Safety Authority, currently the right authority) that decides whether an animal is concerned by this regulation or not.
In Norway it is absurd to consider keeping tigers, unless you happen to be the biggest Zoo in the country. It is considered absurd for any private individual to keep animals such as tigers or even the smallest of primates.
Oslo Reptile Park (Oslo Zoo), has been applying for dispensation to keep a small group of the smallest primates for several years without success.
At least one out of the two biggest Zoos in Norway, Bergen Aquarium and the animal park in Kristiansand, are run by directors in strong support of animal rights philosophy.
A couple of years ago the Director of Bergen aquarium had a blog against private reptile keeping in Norway. The Aquarium in Bergen also uses every opportunity to sling mud on the criminalized "reptile environment" of Norway.
If the Norwegian animal rights organizations hadn´t recieved strong support by the HSUS, Paws, Peta, RSPCA and the rest of these tyrants, I would argue that Oslo reptile park wouldn´t be having such great difficulties obtaining a dispensation to keep the smallest primates around, and the norwegian people would be allowed to keep kingsnakes, leopard geckoes and other interesting and valuable representatives of amphibian and reptilian diversity.
I would argue that the HSUS is actively participating on placing pressure and oppression on responsible animal keepers in Norway through their international involvement, not only reptile and amphibian keepers, but also keepers of other animals such as fur fox farmers, parrot farmers, wolf farmers, cat breeders and many others.
I have written to our authorities on numerous occasions regarding some of these matters, but my letters keep falling on death ears.
In respect to herpetoculture, reptiles, toads, frogs and salamanders are explicitly illegal to keep in private vivarium, butfrogs and toads are taxonomically really the same thing. The order of gymnophiona are not mentioned in our laws you may have noticed, I wrote to our Food Safety Authority, explaining that Caecilian Morphology, and that these tropical and subtropical limbless animals do not have a big potential to survive or establish viable invasive populations in the subasctic climates of Norway. Last I heard the Food safety authority, and the animal rights organizations organizations of Norway as well as their pan international cooperation associates still believe these fascinating and mysterious, threatened and forgotten amphibian snakes are a crime to conserve in vivarium.
If Plants had rights I would argue that every plant species has a right to a reserve pool of geenes in the World Seed Bank. Since plant diversity is threatened many places on earth, I regard it as prudent to safe guard seeds of all different plants in the seed bank.
Likewise, there is a dire need for establisment of bigger reserve populations of amphibian snakes and many other threatened species. Even though Caecilians are not explixitly mentioned in Norway´s reptile and amphibian ban, they are still considered illegal to keep by our Food Safety Authority.
I would like to breed extinct in the wild species but this is impossible to do in a responsible manner in Norway as long as the private keeping of all reptiles and amphibians is illegal.
I hope the rebel advocates for responsible animal husbandry in the US are able to secure international governmental cooperation to adress the significant ways in which certain animal rights organizations and philosophers harm societies across the globe.
Over the past decade we have esperienced an uncontrolled bushfire of extinctions in the diversity of reptiles, amphibians and other animal species. Despite our best efforts, we have not been able to halt the extinction crisis. and safe guard the health and long term existense of many vastly beautiful and important natural habitats. Costal ground around the tropics is being peppered hard with hotels and tourist industry and coastal habitats across the globe are being hit hard by the western tourist industry, in some cases placing further pressure on vulnerable species.
The HSUS advocates further extinction of extinct in the wild species, animals who have lost their natural habitat and now find room for existense only though the efforts of responsible breeders.
I hope the individual Norwegian, American and Global citizen of today reserve some valuable time to address the injustice done to responsible animal owners across the globe, and their animals, by the animal rights advocates of the world. If our suspicions are correct, and the animal rights organizations act as significant and thus important inhibitors of conservation through commercialization of the diversity of global fauna.
I would also argue that the HSUS and similar organizations place a further pressure on wild animals by advocating unreasonable requirements in egg and meat industry, placing pressure on chicken farmers to raise the prices of eggs, and harm peoples ability to invest more money and energy into managing our Earth in a more sustainable and responsible manner.
I hope that the modern societies of Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe and America, communists, fascists, democrats and liberalists alike will rise up and make a difference in defense of the value of diversity of life on the blue pebble in Space. Before it is too late, we have to restrict the respects in which animal rights organization inhibit a more effective future global conservation practice.
Often, the normal urban citizen is not able to perceive the slight additions in legislation put in place by animal rights organizations, thus the normal citizen of today is fooled into becoming a member of the movement which halts a more effective conservation through the practice of HSUS and like minded wildlife protectionist organizations.
They owe me personally a lot of money, and they owe a lot of money to the Earths natural environments, but even so, they seem to stop at nothing in their quest to raise more funds for for their non profit organization in order to profit the extinction of extinct in the wild species which now exist only in vivarium.
The HSUS must immediately cease to fence out the responsible keeping and breeding of snakes and other companion animals we share the Earth with.
Kind regards
obeligz,
Crocodile thief,
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