From the Center for Consumer Freedom
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/
Florida Neuters HSUS Funding
While leading animal rights groups spend top dollar trying to steal meat
off our tables, they spend precious little in the way of directly
helping animals. As we've highlighted with our popular new website,
PetaKillsAnimals.com, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spends
millions on offensive PR campaigns while it penny-pinches by killing
more than 10,000 dogs and cats rather than caring for them or finding
them new homes. This week, Florida legislators took funds from the
state's "friends of animals" license plate away from the radical Humane
Society of the United States (HSUS) after they discovered the ultra-rich
HSUS doesn't operate any spay/neuter programs.
HSUS has over $113 million in assets and an annual operating budget of
$69 million. The group's recent merger with The Fund For Animals will
likely bump its budget into the $80 million range. HSUS poured more than
$175,000 into a 2002 Florida ballot initiative which gave constitutional
rights to pregnant pigs.
Meanwhile, as HSUS itself admits (in a disclosure buried deep within its
website):
[T]he Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is not affiliated with,
nor is it a parent organization for, local humane societies, animal
shelters, or animal care and control agencies ... The HSUS does not
operate or have direct control over any animal shelter.
Reporter Mike Jackson poses the obvious question:
Since HSUS doesn't administer any spaying or neutering programs, the
legislature was quite correct to have blocked their receiving any future
funds. The unanswered questions causing the red cheeks are simple: How
did HSUS manage to get designated as a recipient of the funds in the
first place, and will there be any move to recover any funds they've
already received since they were apparently given to HSUS under false
pretenses?
