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Each summer, animal activists travel across the country to meet and discuss the latest topics of the animal rights movement. This year, animal agriculture was once again the focus. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) hosted its annual Taking Action for Animals Conference in Washington, D.C. on July 15-18, and Farm Animal Rights Movement’s Animal Rights 2011 Conference (AR 2011) was held two weeks later on July 21-25 in Los Angeles. Both events claimed to have “record-breaking” attendance, attracting a combined total of more than 1,600 activists from around the world, ranging in age from 20-60 years old....

If you don’t subscribe to the dead-tree edition of The New York Times, you may have missed our full-page ad today asking readers, “Shouldn’t the ‘Humane Society’ do better?” Considering that less than half of one-percent of money spent by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) in 2008 went to hands-on pet shelters, lots of people think there’s room for improvement. If you didn’t get the ad, here’s a copy to view, (pdf):It appears we’ve hit close to home at HSUS headquarters. CEO Wayne Pacelle has dialed up his usual issue-dodging response and attacked us for supposedly...

We arrived in San Antonio on Monday, and like many other cattlemen and women, we paid our respects to The Alamo on a sunny warm afternoon. Docents did a great job telling the story of the brave men, both inside and out doors. I attended the American National CattleWomen Animal Welfare Committee and very glad I did. When I returned home I was shocked to see ads on our local Redding TV station for HSUS (Humane Society of the United States) where "for only $ 19 a month you can help save the animals." Cattlemen and CattleWomen alike need to...

The horse slaughter debate is about to get downright contentious, now that South Dakota radio talk show host Chase Adams has joined the fray. The farm and ranch director and host of the “Five State Live!” agriculture show on radio station KBHB has just registered a nonprofit organization, the American Horse League Inc., to do battle with animal rights activist groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Humane Society of the United Sates. “Somebody out there somewhere has got to be willing to step up to the plate and take on PETA and the HSUS and...