Most people believe there is little difference between animal welfare and animal rights organizations. But the 'Animal Rights' movement's main goal is not, and never has been, to save or help individual animals. Its only mission is to market its anti-human, anti-pet philosophy and vegan lifestyle to the American public. Animal rights extremists have camouflaged their true agenda from the public. This agenda is the ultimate goal of abolishing all animal ownership. They disguise this goal in many different ways. One way is to encourage the public to confuse animal rights with animal welfare. These two concepts are diametrically opposed.
Animal welfare works for the humane treatment of all animals and embraces a broad variety of uses that include owning pets, raising and using animals for food, fiber, labor, and medical and behavioral research; managing animal populations by hunting; keeping animals in zoos and other educational venues; and enjoying animal sports and animals in movies, circuses, and on stage.
The animal rights viewpoint, on the other hand, views domestic animal ownership as exploitation and seeks to destroy the domestic animal by using government to pass prohibitive animal laws, such as mandatory spay/neuter, breed specific ordinances (BSL), pet limits, and anti-breeding restrictions.
To further their agenda the animal rights groups (of which there are many) have created a powerful, sophisticated and media-savvy movement designed to take advantage of the concern and ignorance that many people have regarding animals and animal issues. These groups target meat-eating, individual animal sports and pastimes one by one.
One of the most well known animal rights groups is the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Most people believe this organization supports and helps fund nationwide animal shelters. The truth is that the HSUS, who calls itself an "animal protection" agency, does not operate or have direct control over any animal shelter and is not affiliated with any local humane societies.
Despite HSUS's public claims that it seeks only to ensure animals are humanely treated, the group's values and actions are tilted toward eliminating humans' use of animals entirely, including ending lifesaving biomedical research on animals, funding anti-breeding campaigns, and reducing society's consumption of meat and egg products.
The HSUS scams thousands of dollars from an unsuspecting public using their massive media events, attention-grabbing legislative proposals and Hollywood spokesmen. The HSUS misrepresents itself and takes advantage of every single "crisis" issue it can find to try to profit from it. Its main activities are comprised of promoting laws to restrict use/ownership, propaganda in support of such laws, and fundraising/self-promotional actions. While it has no relation to local humane societies and animal shelters anywhere in the US, HSUS does control dozens of legal corporations throughout the world. Despite its image as a cash-strapped animal protection agency, the HSUS has become the wealthiest animal rights organization on earth.
Animal Welfare, as opposed to Animal Rights is concerned with the health, safety, and the future of animals, not to mention the quality of life for both animals and humans. No moral, mentally healthy human being wants to see animals suffer. We have a duty and a moral responsibility to prevent animal suffering. Pet owners, breeders and rescuers spend literally thousands of dollars and untold hours of time and effort caring for animals. They do it out of love and respect for their pets. However this is not the same as granting them moral equality. There is a fundamental difference between respect and consideration for animals and granting them equal moral rights, just as there is a fundamental difference between humans and animals. Animal rights philosophy seeks to blur that difference through anthropomorphism, brainwashing and political maneuvering.
There is an underground war going on in this country for the right to own, use and care for animals. The animal/human relationship goes back thousands of years. Animal Rightists want to destroy that relationship...one-law-at-a-time. Those of us who care for animals are under attack like never before. Licensing, new taxes, pet limit laws, registration schemes, Breed Specific Legislation, "puppy-mill" laws and arbitrary governmental intrusion into our privacy have done incredible damage to healthy pet ownership over the years.
All of us who love our pets must recognize the difference between animal rights and animal welfare. Whether they're opposing breeding, meat, medical research, "puppy-mills", zoos or fur, the animal rightists real agenda goes much further. We need to be vigilant in our own communities, as well on the State and Federal levels so that we, as pet owners, are not legislated out of existence.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR:Laws that define all breeders as commercial entities, including hobby breeders,
"Anti-puppy-mill bills" that have any definition that could include breeders of show and/or hunting dogs,
Legislation that attempts to redefine pet ownership to "guardianship",
Breed specific laws, e.g., laws which ban particular breeds,
Unreasonable license fee increases,
Any other items that relate to ownership of pets or breeding of dogs.
WHAT YOU CAN DO: Do not give money to organizations like the HSUS; instead support your local animal shelters.
Join a group that deals with animal legislative issues, like the National Animal Interest Alliance.
Check the American Kennel Club (www.AKC.org) website on a regular basis for legislation that affects your state.
Refer any proposed regulations or laws in your area to doglaw@AKC.org. The AKC has many helpful documents related to wording for regulations related to dogs.
Be a model citizen with your dogs and help educate other owners to do the same.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
National Animal Interest Alliance, www.naiaonline.org
NAIA Trust, www.naiatrust.org
American Kennel Club, Legislation, www.akc.org/canine_legislation/index.cfm
Activist Cash, www.activistcash.com
Pet-Law, www.pet-law.com
PeTA Kills Animals, www.petakillsanimals.com
Sportsmen & Animal Owners Voting Alliance, www.saova.org
American Dog Owners Association, www.adoa.org
Animal Rights.net, www.animalrights.net
Animal welfare works for the humane treatment of all animals and embraces a broad variety of uses that include owning pets, raising and using animals for food, fiber, labor, and medical and behavioral research; managing animal populations by hunting; keeping animals in zoos and other educational venues; and enjoying animal sports and animals in movies, circuses, and on stage.
The animal rights viewpoint, on the other hand, views domestic animal ownership as exploitation and seeks to destroy the domestic animal by using government to pass prohibitive animal laws, such as mandatory spay/neuter, breed specific ordinances (BSL), pet limits, and anti-breeding restrictions.
To further their agenda the animal rights groups (of which there are many) have created a powerful, sophisticated and media-savvy movement designed to take advantage of the concern and ignorance that many people have regarding animals and animal issues. These groups target meat-eating, individual animal sports and pastimes one by one.
One of the most well known animal rights groups is the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Most people believe this organization supports and helps fund nationwide animal shelters. The truth is that the HSUS, who calls itself an "animal protection" agency, does not operate or have direct control over any animal shelter and is not affiliated with any local humane societies.
Despite HSUS's public claims that it seeks only to ensure animals are humanely treated, the group's values and actions are tilted toward eliminating humans' use of animals entirely, including ending lifesaving biomedical research on animals, funding anti-breeding campaigns, and reducing society's consumption of meat and egg products.
The HSUS scams thousands of dollars from an unsuspecting public using their massive media events, attention-grabbing legislative proposals and Hollywood spokesmen. The HSUS misrepresents itself and takes advantage of every single "crisis" issue it can find to try to profit from it. Its main activities are comprised of promoting laws to restrict use/ownership, propaganda in support of such laws, and fundraising/self-promotional actions. While it has no relation to local humane societies and animal shelters anywhere in the US, HSUS does control dozens of legal corporations throughout the world. Despite its image as a cash-strapped animal protection agency, the HSUS has become the wealthiest animal rights organization on earth.
Animal Welfare, as opposed to Animal Rights is concerned with the health, safety, and the future of animals, not to mention the quality of life for both animals and humans. No moral, mentally healthy human being wants to see animals suffer. We have a duty and a moral responsibility to prevent animal suffering. Pet owners, breeders and rescuers spend literally thousands of dollars and untold hours of time and effort caring for animals. They do it out of love and respect for their pets. However this is not the same as granting them moral equality. There is a fundamental difference between respect and consideration for animals and granting them equal moral rights, just as there is a fundamental difference between humans and animals. Animal rights philosophy seeks to blur that difference through anthropomorphism, brainwashing and political maneuvering.
There is an underground war going on in this country for the right to own, use and care for animals. The animal/human relationship goes back thousands of years. Animal Rightists want to destroy that relationship...one-law-at-a-time. Those of us who care for animals are under attack like never before. Licensing, new taxes, pet limit laws, registration schemes, Breed Specific Legislation, "puppy-mill" laws and arbitrary governmental intrusion into our privacy have done incredible damage to healthy pet ownership over the years.
All of us who love our pets must recognize the difference between animal rights and animal welfare. Whether they're opposing breeding, meat, medical research, "puppy-mills", zoos or fur, the animal rightists real agenda goes much further. We need to be vigilant in our own communities, as well on the State and Federal levels so that we, as pet owners, are not legislated out of existence.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR:
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
National Animal Interest Alliance, www.naiaonline.org
NAIA Trust, www.naiatrust.org
American Kennel Club, Legislation, www.akc.org/canine_legislation/index.cfm
Activist Cash, www.activistcash.com
Pet-Law, www.pet-law.com
PeTA Kills Animals, www.petakillsanimals.com
Sportsmen & Animal Owners Voting Alliance, www.saova.org
American Dog Owners Association, www.adoa.org
Animal Rights.net, www.animalrights.net
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