Humane Society of the United States
2100 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037Phone 202-452-1100 | Fax 202-258-3051 | Email wpacelle@hsus.org
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“We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States ... We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state.” — Full Cry magazine
“Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as cock fighting and dog fighting.” — Bozeman (MT) Daily Chronicle
“If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.” — Associated Press
“We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.” — “Animal Rights 2002” convention
“We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding ...One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.” — Animal People News
“HSUS really needs to be called to task for its triple sided hypocrisy. When HSUS addresses scientists they say they support animal research as necessary. When HSUS addresses the public they say it is evil but sometimes necessary. When HSUS addresses its members and other animal rights groups, they say it is evil and unnecessary.” — Dr. Pat Cleveland of the University of California, San Diego
“We’ve started picketing outside the homes of the [department store] executives … Those executives do not deserve a break. They do not deserve to go home and rest.” — J.P. Goodwin describing his anti-fur strategy
“My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture.” — HSUS grassroots coordinator John “J.P.” Goodwin
“I’m not an admirer of HSUS. They’ve always been primarily a direct-mail operation, and what’s known in animal rights circles as a credit-grabber.” — HSUS co-founder Cleveland Amory
“The Humane Society should be worried about protecting animals from cruelty. It’s not doing that. The place is all about power and money.” — HSUS consultant and former HSUS Chief Investigator Robert Baker, in U.S. News & World Report
“The life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration.” — HSUS senior scholar Michael W. Fox
“[T]he Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is not affiliated with, nor is it a parent organization for, local humane societies, animal shelters, or animal care and control agencies … The HSUS does not operate or have direct control over any animal shelter.” — From a 2001 disclaimer issued by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)
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