WHAT: Press conference to announce The Humane Society of the United States’ latest undercover investigations into major egg producers. The HSUS will release video footage revealing appalling suffering at multiple egg factory farms and outline critically-needed reforms in animal agribusiness.
The HSUS will also release a new report detailing the problems inherent in cage confinement of laying hens and the importance of the national movement toward cage-free production systems.
WHO: Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS
WHERE: Des Moines Marriott Downtown
700 Grand Avenue
Des Moines, Iowa
Or by teleconference. RSVP to Erin Williams, 301-721-6446 or ewilliams@humanesociety.org
WHEN: 10:00am CST, Wednesday, April 7
-30-
Media contact:
Erin Williams, 301-721-6446, ewilliams@humanesociety.org
Follow The HSUS on Twitter.
The Humane Society of the United States is the nation’s largest animal protection organization — backed by 11 million Americans, or one of every 28. For more than a half-century, The HSUS has been fighting for the protection of all animals through advocacy, education and hands-on programs. Celebrating animals and confronting cruelty — On the web at humanesociety.org.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 2010
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
"KinshipCircle" Founder Under Seige by DC Politicians for Anti-Horse Slaughter Campaign
You jus' go girl! We are with you all the way!
Activist targeted by state legislators
BY TONY MESSENGER tmessenger@post-dispatch.com 573-635-6178
04/01/2010
JEFFERSON CITY — Animal activist Brenda Shoss and the Missouri lawmakers who loathe her agree on this: Having your inbox fill up with hundreds of unwanted e-mails is infuriating.
That's what happened to Missouri House members a week ago, when Shoss and members of her advocacy group, Kinship Circle, unleashed a deluge urging legislators to vote against a bill that would open the door for a horse slaughterhouse to come to the Show-Me State.
Lawmakers — both Democrats and Republicans — objected to the tactic. They said they had never before received hundreds of e-mails from all over the nation, and even the world, on a bill.
So they struck back. MORE POLITICAL NEWS
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Shoss received calls at her home from offices in the Capitol, taunting her and making "neighing" voices into the phone. One caller sang a version of the theme song from "Mr. Ed." A number of the calls came late at night.
Some legislators programmed their e-mail systems to forward any message containing the word "horse" to Shoss. And some told the activist that they would consider passing the bill out of spite.
"I would think that some people who voted against it previously might change their vote," said Rep. Michael Frame, D-Eureka.
The response of elected officials has left the experienced activist dumbfounded. Even when her organization got involved in the high-profile animal abuse case of NFL quarterback Michael Vick, she had never seen such a vitriolic reaction.
The late-night, anonymous phone calls led Shoss to file a harassment complaint last week with the University City Police Department.
The calls stopped, she said, after the Post-Dispatch started asking lawmakers about them.
Frame is one of the lawmakers who awoke March 22 to a full e-mail box urging him to oppose legislation — pushed by Rep. Jim Viebrock, R-Republic — allowing a horse slaughterhouse in Missouri
The bill would seek to bypass the ban on using federal funds for horse meat inspection by allowing state officials to collect fees and pass them on to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. There are no horse slaughter plants in the U.S., but the meat is considered a delicacy in some countries.
Proponents argue the bill would create a market for horses that are otherwise abused or neglected. Shoss and other opponents argue that Americans don't want to eat horse meat and that the slaughter process is inhumane.
Frame is against the bill, but he said he understands the seething anger felt by some of his colleagues who faced the onslaught of e-mails from as far away as Spain and Australia.
"I spent two hours before even getting to the office doing nothing but deleting those e-mails," Frame said. "Almost none of them were from Missouri. I was as mad as I can be."
Frame was mad enough to call Shoss and give her a piece of her mind. He was one of the few lawmakers to reveal his name, Shoss said.
Other lawmakers chose to respond to Shoss and her fellow activists via e-mail.
"It's so fun to piss you wackos off," wrote Rep. Casey Guernsey, R-Bethany, to one activist from his private e-mail account. "You're lucky I even acknowledge your existence. It's so much fun to taunt people like you — ha! Tell me, is it truly liberating to be so incredibly clueless?"
Guernsey said he heard about some of the phone calls made to Shoss but said he didn't make any of them.
"I e-mailed her and asked her to stop," he said.
Several lawmakers chuckled when asked by the Post-Dispatch about the calls made to Shoss, and some said they thought they knew who made them, but none said they were involved.
The way Guernsey and some of his colleagues see it, they shouldn't have to respond to lobbying on issues from people outside their district. And having to wade through all the e-mails to see whether any are from constituents is a waste of time, he said.
"If they're from Missouri and they have some dog in the fight, that's one thing," Guernsey said.
Shoss said she thinks that attitude is shortsighted.
If horse slaughterhouses were to open in Missouri — which is unlikely, even if Viebrock's bill were to pass — that would affect horses everywhere, she argued.
Shoss is a freelance graphic designer who also does work in advertising. Her e-mail pleas are generally fact-based and not particularly emotional. She directs Kinship Circle, which she founded, as a volunteer. The group also has a volunteer board.
Shoss is a former officer of the St. Louis Animal Rights Team who has also advocated against puppy mills, cockfighting and the poisoning of urban pigeons.
By their nature, animal activists are persistent, Shoss said. She concedes that flooding someone's e-mail box with messages is "inconvenient," but says legislators overreacted.
"Maybe Missouri lawmakers just didn't know how organized and passionate we are," Shoss said.
Shoss' current group has coordinated pig rescues during flooding in Iowa and most recently has been involved in animal rescue following devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.
Other animal activists say that what Kinship Circle does is no different than other political groups that flood lawmakers with e-mail.
"This is the first time I've ever heard of any state legislature reacting so negatively. It's kind of shocking" said Susan Trout of Born Free USA, a national wildlife advocacy organization.
Trout was recently asked to serve on Kinship Circle's board, and she said the group has a good reputation. Trout also said that most animal activist groups, like many political advocacy groups, participate in similar e-mail campaigns all the time.
The House passed Viebrock's bill in a voice vote Monday. It needs one more House vote to go to the Senate.
Shoss said she was shocked by the suggestion that some lawmakers might vote for a bill simply because they didn't like the way her group opposed it.
"They're going to pass a bill to get back at me?" she said. "That's just scary."
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Activist targeted by state legislators
BY TONY MESSENGER tmessenger@post-dispatch.com 573-635-6178
04/01/2010
JEFFERSON CITY — Animal activist Brenda Shoss and the Missouri lawmakers who loathe her agree on this: Having your inbox fill up with hundreds of unwanted e-mails is infuriating.
That's what happened to Missouri House members a week ago, when Shoss and members of her advocacy group, Kinship Circle, unleashed a deluge urging legislators to vote against a bill that would open the door for a horse slaughterhouse to come to the Show-Me State.
Lawmakers — both Democrats and Republicans — objected to the tactic. They said they had never before received hundreds of e-mails from all over the nation, and even the world, on a bill.
So they struck back. MORE POLITICAL NEWS
See all our political coverage
The Political Fix keeps you on top of local, state and national politics.
Shoss received calls at her home from offices in the Capitol, taunting her and making "neighing" voices into the phone. One caller sang a version of the theme song from "Mr. Ed." A number of the calls came late at night.
Some legislators programmed their e-mail systems to forward any message containing the word "horse" to Shoss. And some told the activist that they would consider passing the bill out of spite.
"I would think that some people who voted against it previously might change their vote," said Rep. Michael Frame, D-Eureka.
The response of elected officials has left the experienced activist dumbfounded. Even when her organization got involved in the high-profile animal abuse case of NFL quarterback Michael Vick, she had never seen such a vitriolic reaction.
The late-night, anonymous phone calls led Shoss to file a harassment complaint last week with the University City Police Department.
The calls stopped, she said, after the Post-Dispatch started asking lawmakers about them.
Frame is one of the lawmakers who awoke March 22 to a full e-mail box urging him to oppose legislation — pushed by Rep. Jim Viebrock, R-Republic — allowing a horse slaughterhouse in Missouri
The bill would seek to bypass the ban on using federal funds for horse meat inspection by allowing state officials to collect fees and pass them on to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. There are no horse slaughter plants in the U.S., but the meat is considered a delicacy in some countries.
Proponents argue the bill would create a market for horses that are otherwise abused or neglected. Shoss and other opponents argue that Americans don't want to eat horse meat and that the slaughter process is inhumane.
Frame is against the bill, but he said he understands the seething anger felt by some of his colleagues who faced the onslaught of e-mails from as far away as Spain and Australia.
"I spent two hours before even getting to the office doing nothing but deleting those e-mails," Frame said. "Almost none of them were from Missouri. I was as mad as I can be."
Frame was mad enough to call Shoss and give her a piece of her mind. He was one of the few lawmakers to reveal his name, Shoss said.
Other lawmakers chose to respond to Shoss and her fellow activists via e-mail.
"It's so fun to piss you wackos off," wrote Rep. Casey Guernsey, R-Bethany, to one activist from his private e-mail account. "You're lucky I even acknowledge your existence. It's so much fun to taunt people like you — ha! Tell me, is it truly liberating to be so incredibly clueless?"
Guernsey said he heard about some of the phone calls made to Shoss but said he didn't make any of them.
"I e-mailed her and asked her to stop," he said.
Several lawmakers chuckled when asked by the Post-Dispatch about the calls made to Shoss, and some said they thought they knew who made them, but none said they were involved.
The way Guernsey and some of his colleagues see it, they shouldn't have to respond to lobbying on issues from people outside their district. And having to wade through all the e-mails to see whether any are from constituents is a waste of time, he said.
"If they're from Missouri and they have some dog in the fight, that's one thing," Guernsey said.
Shoss said she thinks that attitude is shortsighted.
If horse slaughterhouses were to open in Missouri — which is unlikely, even if Viebrock's bill were to pass — that would affect horses everywhere, she argued.
Shoss is a freelance graphic designer who also does work in advertising. Her e-mail pleas are generally fact-based and not particularly emotional. She directs Kinship Circle, which she founded, as a volunteer. The group also has a volunteer board.
Shoss is a former officer of the St. Louis Animal Rights Team who has also advocated against puppy mills, cockfighting and the poisoning of urban pigeons.
By their nature, animal activists are persistent, Shoss said. She concedes that flooding someone's e-mail box with messages is "inconvenient," but says legislators overreacted.
"Maybe Missouri lawmakers just didn't know how organized and passionate we are," Shoss said.
Shoss' current group has coordinated pig rescues during flooding in Iowa and most recently has been involved in animal rescue following devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.
Other animal activists say that what Kinship Circle does is no different than other political groups that flood lawmakers with e-mail.
"This is the first time I've ever heard of any state legislature reacting so negatively. It's kind of shocking" said Susan Trout of Born Free USA, a national wildlife advocacy organization.
Trout was recently asked to serve on Kinship Circle's board, and she said the group has a good reputation. Trout also said that most animal activist groups, like many political advocacy groups, participate in similar e-mail campaigns all the time.
The House passed Viebrock's bill in a voice vote Monday. It needs one more House vote to go to the Senate.
Shoss said she was shocked by the suggestion that some lawmakers might vote for a bill simply because they didn't like the way her group opposed it.
"They're going to pass a bill to get back at me?" she said. "That's just scary."
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Animal Cruelty "Artist" Tatooing Pigs
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China Dogs (and Cats) NO MORE!
Click on title above to see vid about Chinas HORROFIC Dog & Cat meat trade;
by Kasperay Ray - a Champion for Animals and the Lord.
WARNING: Graphic
Bill Extending Animal Cruelty to Livestock Stalls in Tennesee
WPLN News
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010, by Jacqueline Fellows
Tennessee lawmakers refused to make abusing farm animals a felony.
News coverage of half-starved horses, seized by humane groups in the mid-state, were behind a proposed law to make it a felony to intentionally abuse a livestock animal.
It’s already a felony to treat a companion animal, like a dog or cat, with such “aggravated cruelty.” One example would be failing to feed the animal until it is at risk of dying.
Leighann McCollum, a lobbyist for the Humane Society of the U.S., says her group will continue to try to pass the bill in Tennessee.
“We’re not deterred at all; we plan on bringing this bill back next year. Had a tremendous amount of support from the public, as well as the agricultural community.”
Nashville Representative Janis Sontany took the bill before the House Agriculture Committee for three straight weeks. At the end, it failed to even get a motion.
http://wpln.org/?p=16259
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010, by Jacqueline Fellows
Tennessee lawmakers refused to make abusing farm animals a felony.
News coverage of half-starved horses, seized by humane groups in the mid-state, were behind a proposed law to make it a felony to intentionally abuse a livestock animal.
It’s already a felony to treat a companion animal, like a dog or cat, with such “aggravated cruelty.” One example would be failing to feed the animal until it is at risk of dying.
Leighann McCollum, a lobbyist for the Humane Society of the U.S., says her group will continue to try to pass the bill in Tennessee.
“We’re not deterred at all; we plan on bringing this bill back next year. Had a tremendous amount of support from the public, as well as the agricultural community.”
Nashville Representative Janis Sontany took the bill before the House Agriculture Committee for three straight weeks. At the end, it failed to even get a motion.
http://wpln.org/?p=16259
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