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Missouri Farmers Care on HSUS national plan
The head of the Missouri Farmers Care Coalition, which formed because of attacks from the Humane Society of the United States, tells Brownfield Ag News the animal rights activist group is losing steam.
Ashley McCarty says even though the HSUS is forming a national coalition in major ag states, including Missouri, it’s because the lobbying group has had a reduced impact at the federal and state levels in trying to end modern ag practices, “The fact that they continue to build an approach to affect policy in states really may not be much of a development. We have long worked to make sure that when consumers and citizens of the state of Missouri hear the voice of agriculture it’s actually coming from the farm.”
McCarty says the HSUS wants consumers to believe that producers do not care about anything except their bottom lines. She says farmers operate not only on their best financial interests but also their moral best interests by taking care of their livestock and their farms.
McCarty tells Brownfield, “I think the fact that they are positioning themselves to try to advise Missouri farmers on how to best take care of their animals is actually ludicrous.”
AUDIO – Interview with Ashley McCarty:
HSUS forms national ag advisory council
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The most prominent spokesmen for the HSUS are Paul Shapiro and Wayne Purcell, both of them are avowed vegans. Now a vegan does not believe in eating meat or using animal products. So they don’t wear leather or drink milk. They oppose fur products and think ice cream will kill you. These are the hard core animal rights fanatics. They may try to appear reasonable, but Purcell sacrificially has adopted the Mao philosophy of 3 steeps forward and 1 back.
The question is, can a meat producer deal with them. The answer is no. Just look at the biggest promotion of the HSUS, meatless Monday. They promote meatless Monday by saying meat will kill you and the environment. So, a meat producer should have a hard time working with people who say they are trying to poison your customers.
If you want to see who you are dealing with, he should read some of Purcell’s writings. One of his latest promotes fake meat. He talks about how plant protein can be chemically modified to take the place of meat. It seems inconceivable that a meat producer will ever be able to compromise with an organization that wants to shut them down.
If the HSUS is really intent on working with farmers, the first thing it should do is get rid of Purcell and Shapiro. These men destroy any creditability the HSUS has with meat producers. If the HSUS does not, then it truly is, just a vegan cult, that wants to shut down animal production in the US.
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.