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North Carolina HSUS dog bill shelved
A bill backed by the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) aimed at regulating dog breeders in North Carolina has been shelved as that state’s legislative session winds down. One of the groups fighting the measure is the Sportsmen’s and Animal Owner’s Voting Alliance. President Susan Wolf says the bill, which passed the North Carolina Senate by one vote last year, was “reactive legislation” to a large substandard kennel taken over by animal control officials. Wolf says the HSUS proposal would regulate dog owners with 15 or more dogs,
“For somebody that has one pet dog, it may sound like a lot of dogs, but anyone that has any husbandry knowledge or raising dogs or has a pack of hunting dogs knows that’s not a lot of dogs.”
Wolf says there’s no doubt that it’s part of an HSUS campaign against North Carolina agriculture, “They are working the restaurants, trying to get them to buy cage-free eggs. They have started to work the Farm Tours with their propaganda to drive a wedge between the ag community.
Wolf says they all must work together to fight HSUS, “If we don’t all learn the agenda and work together, we’re going to be buried under legislation.
While the bill got hung up in committee at the tail end of the North Carolina legislative session, which likely ends this Friday, Wolf says the fight isn’t over because the HSUS-backed bill WILL be back next year.
AUDIO: Susan Wolf (7 min. MP3) (interviewed on June 25, 2010)
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Not only should the HSUS dog bill be “shelved”; it should be “shredded”. Any legislation presented by or supported by HSUS/PETA and other such animal rights organizations is likely to ultimately be anti-animal and anti-carnivore and line-the-pockets of the organization. These are vegan socialists wishing to change society to their way of thinking–just follow their donations & see who is doing what in Congress today! Sad to say, these groups want to eliminate animals, sensible farming techniques, circuses, zoos, rodeos, etc. Unfortunately the unknowledgeable fall for their “animal cruelty” ploys. No one wants abuse to animals; it is not common–but when it happens use the current animal abuse laws on the books and truly enforce them. Numbers of animals have nothing to do with care; some care for large numbers in wonderful fashion; and there are those who have 1 pet that receives little or no care. It’s the human equation that needs to be dealt with via current laws if necessary.
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Free range eggs contain a little something extra: pollutants
June 16, 2010 | 1:16 pm
Here’s some disconcerting news for health-conscious eaters who favor eggs from free-range hens: A Taiwanese study found that the eggs contain much higher levels of industrial pollutants than eggs laid by caged hens.The researchers focused on two types of pollutants, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (known collectively as PCCD/Fs), which are released into the environment by municipal waste incinerators, factories and other industrial sources. A report from the International Program on Chemical Safety says the chemicals have caused cancer, liver damage, problems with the skin and nervous system, reproductive problems and other undesirable effects in animals.
The researchers collected 60 free range eggs from farms in southern Taiwan and compared them with 120 eggs from caged hens that were purchased throughout the country. Then they measured the levels of 17 kinds of PCCD/Fs.
For the free range eggs, the levels ranged from 6.18 to 41.3 picograms per gram of lipid, with an average value of 17.5 pg/g. Levels for the caged eggs ranged from 2.85 to 19.8 pg/g, with an average value of 7.65.
The researchers also calculated the toxic equivalency quotient (TEQ) for both kinds of eggs using a system endorsed by the World Health Organization. The levels for the free range eggs were 5.7 times higher than the levels for the caged eggs.
In addition, 17% of the free range eggs had levels that European regulators have deemed unsafe for consumption. All of the caged eggs were easily in the safe zone, the researchers found. The results were published in the latest edition of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
The researchers believe the free range eggs have more contaminants because they are found in the environments where free range hens roam. Studies have found the chemicals in “feedstuffs, soil, plants, worms and insects,” they wrote. Their own measurements of dirt from free range farms persuaded them that soil contamination is at least partly to blame.
The problem probably isn’t limited to Taiwan. Scientists have also found the same trend in the European Union, and one study found that about 10% of free range eggs exceeded the safety limit set by regulators there.
“The issue of contamination in free range eggs could be a global issue, and more research should be done to identify the factors from the external environment that influence and modify the PCDD/F levels in eggs from free range hens,” the authors wrote.
In case you were wondering, their research was not sponsored by the commercial egg-laying industry. The scientists had grants from the National Science Council of Taiwan and the Taiwanese Ministry of Education.
— Karen Kaplan
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See http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2010/06/free-range-eggs-contaminated-with-dioxins.html
Study shows free range eggs highly contaminated in Europe and Taiwan with pollutants. In American you don’t know where these chickens have ranged. So if you have a compromised immune system don’t eat free range eggs as they have more disease and carcinogens than furnished caged eggs.
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Anything that has to do with animal cruelty – wins. That’s because the human race is despicable.
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This must be a joke?
You are worried about pollutants in eggs? what about the living conditions of the hens? Dr. Whatever, do you smoke? Do you waste the cold water that comes out of your shower first? Do you live the red dot on your tv on when the tv is not on? All these tiny things are not significant in the grand scheme of life. Why make animals suffer for your pleasure?Dogs from other countries? This State still kills 70 % of animals that come into shelters. No need for anyone to breed and inbreed dogs for their own pleasure especially under nasty conditions.
And Jack, do you really buy only US products? check all the items you just bought……and don’t say that it is our economy’s fault that it is too expensive for you to buy.
People are greedy and complain whatever they selectively chose. Amazing
btw, the HSUS is one of the hardest working corganizations in this country. admin needs to be oaid for anywhere. or do any of you want to work for nothing without any food, shelter or medical care? Oh, that sounds almost like a shelter animal. So, if you say Yes, sorry, you need to be euthanized by gassing as you are taking up too much space and nobody wants you.
Only selfish scum does not see the suffering caused by fighting laws protecting animals. You walk into my house trying to hurt any of my animals, you’ll be dead before you can blink. and no, no excuse that you have to break into my house to use the phone because your phone is dead and you think that I have to help you just because!
chose: treat an animal well or go to hell. Yeah
We’re already buried under foreign dogs which are brought in to fill our shelters and sell to the conned public. California’s governor just signed into law a bill that will prevent the state from buying poultry and eggs from other US states, so where will those commodities come from in 2015? Give the rube a stuffed toy if he said–China. Question: We know HSUS isn’t about “cruelty to animals”, but does anyone realize it’s being used as a means to force Americans to buy foreign foods? How safe for national security is that?