Post by James Allan on Aug 30, 2013 5:17:13 GMT -5
Questions have been raised in the article below about the Humane Society passing itself off as an entity that rescues and cares fors domestic and non domestic animals that are in bad situations and need help.
The article below concerns pig farmers being sued over ammonia emmissions and crating live pigs up from birth to slaughter which are issues I personnaly agree with but the article also has paragraphs concerning very little of the Humane Societies donations getting spend on dog, cat and other types of shelters for animals that the general public beleives is where their money is going to be spent. People that donate to the Humane Society don't know their money is going to lawyers to sue large companies and "Not" to animal shelters or animal care facilities.
It's well known that in this day and age that the democratic left and their lawyers sue small and large businesses on frivolous charges just for a quick profit .
Is the Humane Society a government entity using donations given to them by U.S. citizens to hire lawyers just to go after business for big time profits only?
Humane Society aims pig farm lawsuit at Iowa hog confinement centers
DesMoines Register.com
The Humane Society of the United States said Wednesday it will sue 51 hog producers in Iowa, North Carolina and Oklahoma for unreported releases of ammonia.
The HSUS said it conducted “months of research” into practices at the large confinement barns that now produce more than 80 percent of the nation’s hogs.
Meanwhile HumaneWatch.org, which says it is a venture of the Center for Consumer Freedom, asked Iowa Attorney general Tom Miller to investigate fundraising tactics by the Humane Society. HumaneWatch argues that the Humane Society misrepresents itself as still the caretaker of dogs and cats when it has become a political activist group with widespread advocacy work in livestock.
“Recent public polling by ORC International determined that 71 percent of Americans mistakenly believe that HSUS is a pet shelter umbrella group, and 68 percent wrongly think that HSUS spends most of its money on pet shelters,” said J. Justin Wilson, senior research analyst for the Center for Consumer Freedom
Iowa is the nation’s largest hog-producing state. The HSUS announcement specifically named Iowa Select of Iowa Falls as one of the potential defendents.
“These intensive pig confinement operations are a menace to the environment, to the community, and to the animals virtually immobilized in tiny gestation crates for nearly their entire lives,” says Jonathan Lovvorn, senior vice president and chief counsel for animal protection litigation at The HSUS.
The lawsuit represents a new avenue for the Humane Society’s decade-long protest against hog confinements. It has focused previously on the use of gestation crates for sows, calling them cruel.
The Humane Society has persuaded a number of food processors and fast food companies to announce plans to phase out purchases of pork from producers who use crates, although the phase-in period would be as long as a decade.
The National Pork Producers Council has defended the sow crates as necessary for protecting pregnant sows from one another.
The notice letters are required under the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act before litigation can start, according to that statute’s citizen suit provisions.
The Humane Society’s notice said “the law requires all facilities that release certain amounts of harmful contaminants to report those amounts to state and local emergency response teams.
The Humane Society said “the EPA requires reporting by any facility that releases more than 100 pounds (of ammonia) within a 24 hour period. All of the operations put on notice today exceed this requirement, and in some cases by vast amounts.”
For more news about Iowa agriculture and energy click here for the Register’s Green Fields page on Facebook.
The article below concerns pig farmers being sued over ammonia emmissions and crating live pigs up from birth to slaughter which are issues I personnaly agree with but the article also has paragraphs concerning very little of the Humane Societies donations getting spend on dog, cat and other types of shelters for animals that the general public beleives is where their money is going to be spent. People that donate to the Humane Society don't know their money is going to lawyers to sue large companies and "Not" to animal shelters or animal care facilities.
It's well known that in this day and age that the democratic left and their lawyers sue small and large businesses on frivolous charges just for a quick profit .
Is the Humane Society a government entity using donations given to them by U.S. citizens to hire lawyers just to go after business for big time profits only?
Humane Society aims pig farm lawsuit at Iowa hog confinement centers
DesMoines Register.com
The Humane Society of the United States said Wednesday it will sue 51 hog producers in Iowa, North Carolina and Oklahoma for unreported releases of ammonia.
The HSUS said it conducted “months of research” into practices at the large confinement barns that now produce more than 80 percent of the nation’s hogs.
Meanwhile HumaneWatch.org, which says it is a venture of the Center for Consumer Freedom, asked Iowa Attorney general Tom Miller to investigate fundraising tactics by the Humane Society. HumaneWatch argues that the Humane Society misrepresents itself as still the caretaker of dogs and cats when it has become a political activist group with widespread advocacy work in livestock.
“Recent public polling by ORC International determined that 71 percent of Americans mistakenly believe that HSUS is a pet shelter umbrella group, and 68 percent wrongly think that HSUS spends most of its money on pet shelters,” said J. Justin Wilson, senior research analyst for the Center for Consumer Freedom
Iowa is the nation’s largest hog-producing state. The HSUS announcement specifically named Iowa Select of Iowa Falls as one of the potential defendents.
“These intensive pig confinement operations are a menace to the environment, to the community, and to the animals virtually immobilized in tiny gestation crates for nearly their entire lives,” says Jonathan Lovvorn, senior vice president and chief counsel for animal protection litigation at The HSUS.
The lawsuit represents a new avenue for the Humane Society’s decade-long protest against hog confinements. It has focused previously on the use of gestation crates for sows, calling them cruel.
The Humane Society has persuaded a number of food processors and fast food companies to announce plans to phase out purchases of pork from producers who use crates, although the phase-in period would be as long as a decade.
The National Pork Producers Council has defended the sow crates as necessary for protecting pregnant sows from one another.
The notice letters are required under the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act before litigation can start, according to that statute’s citizen suit provisions.
The Humane Society’s notice said “the law requires all facilities that release certain amounts of harmful contaminants to report those amounts to state and local emergency response teams.
The Humane Society said “the EPA requires reporting by any facility that releases more than 100 pounds (of ammonia) within a 24 hour period. All of the operations put on notice today exceed this requirement, and in some cases by vast amounts.”
For more news about Iowa agriculture and energy click here for the Register’s Green Fields page on Facebook.
