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HSUS forms national ag advisory council
Nebraska rancher Kevin Fulton discusses formation of the HSUS national ag advisory council at a news conference in Lincoln. He was joined by HSUS director of rural outreach Marty Irby and Nebraska state director for HSUS Jocelyn Nickerson.
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has announced the formation of a national agriculture advisory council.
The announcement came Friday afternoon at a news conference in Lincoln. Nebraska rancher Kevin Fulton, who will serve as chairman of the council, says they want to build alliances with other farmers and ranchers who oppose what Fulton calls “inhumane factory farming practices”.
“There’s billions of farm animals in this country—millions right here in Nebraska—that are so severely confined that they can’t even turn around. They can’t spread their limbs. They lead their entire lives this way,” Fulton said. “That’s wrong and it’s unacceptable. These archaic, inhumane practices are truly a disgrace to the industry and they need to go away.”
Observing the HSUS event on Friday was Ansley Mick, executive director of We Support Agriculture, a coalition of Nebraska ag groups formed to combat HSUS initiatives.
“The Humane Society web site encourages folks to eat less meat—and, in fact, it encourages switching to a plant-based diet—to eat less meat, eat fewer animal-based products,” Mick said. “I just don’t understand how you can necessarily partner with an organization who is interested in putting you out of business.”
But Fulton says HSUS is not out to eliminate animal agriculture.
“That is something that has been propagated by the opposition to demonize us, because they cannot defend the practices,” he says.
Other members of the national ag council include Chris Petersen of Iowa, Mike Callicrate of Colorado, Pete Eshelman of Indiana, Paul Muegge of Oklahoma, Carrie Balkcom of Colorado, Will Harris of Georgia and Joe Logan of Ohio.
AUDIO: HSUS news conference in Lincoln, Nebraska
AUDIO: Ansley Mick of We Support Agriculture
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A Drone Flew Over A Pig Farm To Discover It’s Not Really A Farm. It’s Something Much More Disturbing. Check this site to understand what this is truly about and its not Family farmers!
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National animal rights groups like the HSUS, PETA and the ASPCA have become urban concentrated vegan cults. They raise millions of dollars by pretending to take care of dogs and cats, then spend it on attacks on agriculture, zoos, circuses, aquariums and hunting. Local shelters complain about their aggressive fund raising sucking up all the money, so animals go wanting. ALL THREE HAVE CONCOCTED STORIES ABOUT ANIMAL ABUSE. They have little or no experience with the animals they claim to protect and either misconstrue legitimate animal husbandry or take isolated instances of animal cruelty and say they are the norm. Their goal is to stop hunting by increments, passing laws against individual methods of hunting or shorten hunting seasons. They get away with this because of the urban population of the US is separated from its food production and livestock or wild animals. The country has become a society of small pet owners who view livestock the same as small lap dogs. If these groups have their way, primates will have the same rights as humans and meat eating will be outlawed. Ed Sayers a former head of the ASPCA, complains about the tactics of animal rights movement in an article called “Vigilante Animal Rights”. Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, are passing laws and even constitutional amendments against the HSUS. Ohio and Arizona are passing laws that restrict cities from passing laws against pet stores that sell breeders animals. According to Bloomberg Financial Reports, their attack on food production is already causing an increase in cost. Because of this, poor people are suing to stop a HSUS sponsored law in Massachusetts. So unless you want to end up paying $10.00 a doz. for eggs, $20.00 a lb. for bacon $30.00 a lb. for chicken and $50.00 a lb. for beef, don’t support these groups.
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Hey Kevin The HSUS website i full of recipes all VEGAN.. where is their recipe book what tasty beef that comes from your “special” farm? I hope the rest of the ranchers and farmers don’t believe your bull You are a shill for the vegan HSUS. How much are you being paid?
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“..how entrepreneurs are developing cultured and plant-based food items that will upend conventional thinking about the form and origin of our protein sources.
Together, these developments threaten to end factory farming, and offer new options and opportunities for consumers to act on their values about treating animals with respect or taking the animals out of the equation entirely.”
says Pacelle on his blog read that again and tell me he supports ANY use of animals at all ( oh well maybe one use HSUS holds the patent on PZP the drug used to sterilize wild mares .. it is expensive and has to be injected over an over again so HSUS makes a fortune where is it used and pushes it to be used everywhere and by the way it is made from.. tada PIG ovaries..) hypocrites to the very end don’t buy into the death from a thousands cuts HSUS style -
As a chef – who is regularly given the opportunity to taste cutting-edge meat substitutes at trades shows – so far, they are all a poor substitute for actual meat. Every single one of them have off tastes and none of them actually taste like, or have the texture of, the meat they claim to be impersonating. This isn’t about humane treatment of animals used in agriculture; it’s about making a vegetarian and vegan diet palatable to more Americans with highly-processed, artifically-flavored meat analogs. What the vegan HSUS is going to discover is that people are not hungry for heavily-processed, artificial “burgers” that taste like peas, or mushrooms, or grains, or beans, or nuts – when real meat is much more satisfying at a fraction of the price.
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It has not been about the so “factory farms, AKA CAFO’S” it has not been about abuse. It has been and always’ will be about a group of extremist vegan animal rights groups brainwashing the public into their ideology of absolutely no animal use what so ever. They use the same tactics on any and all animal related businesses. If they can’t find abuse they manipulate the look of abuse, even stage it. It is anything goes, anything said, any promises made to reach their goal.
Recent quotes form their (animal rights) convention and operatives in which HSUS supports:
Stop (saying) Factory Farming
October 8, 2015“ALL animal farming is “factory” farming. As long as animal bodies are commodified, there is exploitation and suffering”.
“Instead, we should be more specific and use the term Animal Agriculture. This encompasses all animal farming. We must be careful to speak in ways that express the truths that all farming of animals is exploitive, all farming of animals is abusive, and there can never be a humane way to breed, confine, and kill animals for their flesh, milk, and eggs.”
Activists to stop using “Factory Farm” term
Oct 6, 2015“At the 2015 Animal Rights National Conference, in Alexandria, Va., Hope Bohanec of United Poultry Concerns said, “The term factory farm had its time … we have inadvertently created the alternative animal agriculture industry. All animal agriculture is bad.” Bohanec was among those that asked for the term “factory farming” to be retired from the activists’ lexicon, according to the Animal Agriculture Alliance, who attended the meeting.
Dr. Carrie P. Freeman, associate professor, department of communication, Georgia State University, and author of the book, “Framing Farming: Communications Strategies for Animal Rights,” explained that attacking the farming of animals in general and not just large-scale farming is where activists need to focus their efforts.“When we show people how bad and egregious factory farming is … most people will say, ‘Well, I should go to a different farm.’ (We) need to focus more on all farming being bad, not just factory farming,” said Freeman.”
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How does a group that has never raised a cow, sheep, pig, etc. become an “advisory” on agricultural issues? That’s like me saying that since I watch medical shows on TV I can advise a surgeon on what to do.
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This is a ploy to reduce using animals for food. Small farmers can not meat the demand for meat. This means a reduction in animals killed for food and also a big chunk of the meat industry, capital. What does that do for our economy? So now they are trying to get the small farmers to speak for HSUS and HSUS knows that small farmers can not meet the demand for meat thus it seems that HSUS wants to the large farms gone, in his vision of creative destruction. Of course this is a philosophical vegan movement based purely on philosophy!
And so the H$U$ worms its way into a mainstream, credible position as ag experts, where in reality, they are anti-ag, anti-animal-use, and far from experts! But hey, why look at the past declarations by H$U$’s leaders against animal use—what do they tell us about the true agenda of these AR “true believers”? How on earth can so many people be so flimflammed by such con artists as those that lead the H$U$? Just look at the national scene in other areas, though, and I guess it makes sense. People are losing their minds, their freedom, and their ability to use common sense to reject “propaganda mill” BIG LIES. Global rulers and ‘1984’ serfs, here we come.