Antis' Efforts to Stop Hunting Backed By Multi-Million Dollar Budgets

U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance ^ | Dec 31, 2003 | NA

[neverdem]

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As in previous years, Animal People magazine has published financial information for 136 animal charities, based on analysis of the groups' IRS reports for FY 2002.

Below are the figures for several leading animal rights groups that are working to end hunting, fishing and trapping in America, as presented in Animal People. In parenthesis are the budgets for the immediate past years.

The budgets for most of the groups stayed level or dipped somewhat, but People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) budget grew from $13.5 million to $16.4 million in 2002. The Humane Society of the United States had an even bigger increase in its budget, from $58.8 million to $67 million.

Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF)

· budget $3,208,308 ($3,360,728 / $3,133,399 / 2,929,360)

· programs 2,543,747

· overhead 664,561

· net assets 2,407,032

Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) (previous years not immediately available)

· budget $1,260,416 ($1,072,951)

· programs 1,117,926

· overhead 142,490

· net assets 2,486,967

Doris Day Animal League (DDAL)

· budget $2,570,372 ($2,844,347 / $2,743,811 / $2,298,227)

· programs 1,977,752

· overhead 592,620

· net assets 753,186

Fund for Animals

· budget $7,358,158 ($5,600,721 / $5,386,201 / $6,383,888)

· programs 5,766,004

· overhead 1,592,154

· net assets 20,225,940

Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)

· budget $67,272,795 ($58,865,207 / $50,431,797 / $51,560,147)

· programs 38,620,876

· overhead 23,453,737

· net assets 85,810,587

In Defense of Animals (IDA)

· budget $2,304.433 ($2,339,784 /$1,841,705 / $1,707,270)

· programs 1,878,120

· overhead 426,313

· net assets 2,512,588

PETA and PCRM: Partners in Fundraising

The Animal People report indicates that PETA and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) should be considered as a single fundraising unit because of its joint partnership in Foundation to Support Animal Protection. Here are the numbers for the three entities:

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

· budget $16,414,174 ($13,499,614 /$17,668,699 / $16,487,851)

· programs 13,741,587

· overhead 2,672,587

· net assets 5,079,120

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)

· budget $2,667,912 ($2,915,847 / $2,533,289 / $2,350,143)

· programs 2,107,232

· overhead 560,680

· net assets 887,109

Foundation to Support Animal Protection (FSAP)

· budget $2,192,281 ($2,430,555)

· programs 29,718

· overhead 2,162,563

· net assets 9,616,986

[neverdem]

BANG, what a thread.

[Terriergal]

Ever wear a fur coat? fur lined boots ? coonskin cap? like wearing leather boots

Prolly not, she seems to indicate it's abominable to do so.

[Mackey]

Shooting birds when there flying in the air also should be banned no need for it...

Now that doesn't even make sense.

I actually saw a proposal by an animal rights idiot -- I repeat, IDIOT -- that deer should only be taken with non-expanding bullets because soft-point bullets were banned (for use in warfare) by the Geneva convention!

[spunkets]

"Cougars are eating people because so much of the vegetation has been lost"

Cougars don't eat vegitation. That cougar jumped the bicycle riders, because they looked good to eat. They are cats you know. They get excited and like to jump things that move and are smaller than them.

[Terriergal]

if they are hunted due to the enviroment conservation preventing disease ok fine

They are. Those are all reasons people hunt.

what good is the hunt it is only for personal enjoyment,

What do you do for personal enjoyment? Shall we make that illegal too?

[Tench_Coxe]

I think sable is nice looking.

About the only fur item I have is a parka with a hood lined with coyote fur.

I'd love to get a sable 'Dr. Zhivago' hat for the winter, but furriers aren't easy to find nowadays ( although I've heard that they're making a very slow come back ).

[Terriergal]

Cougars are eating people because so much of the vegetation has been lost

Then we should shoot more herbivores and allow the vegetation to recover, I guess.

BTW, cougars who are old and losing their ability to compete with other cougars for food (deer, etc.) are usually the ones that attack people.

[missyme]

Maybe your right I live at the beach far from the wildlife so we really don't see wild animals terrorizing each other but animals sense fear and feel pain maybe if they did not I would not feel the way I do.

[Terriergal]

About the only fur item I have is a parka with a hood lined with coyote fur.

And doesn't it make you wish you had something that covered your whole body? Amazing isn't it!

[Dan from Michigan]

fox or deer is taking a siesta it is terrible to think you walk up to it and shoot it.

Would you rather have the deer be shot or starve to death if there's a bad winter? Or get TB due to overpopulation. I don't waste deer. It's eaten, either by me or other familiy members. My uncle gets several deer permits each year, and he suppliments the food with them(which is much cleaner and better than the processed stuff). Turkey is one of my favorites. Wild turkey is better than the chemical enhanced domestic turkey.

I grew up in the country. I live in a small town now. I grew up around nature and respect it, and how ecosystems work. Without hunting, you have animals flourish. Some good, and bad. With expansion of housing, the deer are flourishing in Southern Michigan, and for the first time, there is more deer in Southern Michigan than Northern Michigan. When there is more building, there is less hunting. Coyotes are everything and are now in suburban areas. Pets have been killed by them. Deer are bad for farmers in this area. Millions of dollars in crop damage occurs thanks to 'bambi'.

Cityfolk in general need to learn about nature.

[skepsel]

LOL! Well I was being silly while thumbing through "Meditations on Hunting", by Ortega y Gassett for something pithy.
Didn't come across anything that condenses well so in a nut shell I would say there are probably as many reasons to hunt and fish as there are hunters and fisherman; food on the table, communing with nature, getting back to our primeval hunter natures, the thrill of the stalk, pride in one's fieldcraft.
I mostly fish these days and pull triggers at the range, but the thrill of the stalk was what I liked.
The feeling of a sucessful ambush or of spotting and breaking the ambush (only in training, I've never "seen the elephant") is very much like that in hunting, all one's senses at the highest pitch, everything one sees and hears takes on a crystalline clarity, heart thudding in the chest, and all is combined with a lethal clarity and focus.
There isn't much else like it. Perhaps it is primitive, but so what? The pursiut of happiness is for you or me to determine not Mrs. Grundy, as long as we aren't harming her.

skepsel

[missyme]

The cougar who killed the guy in OC and attacked the bicyclist was not quite 2 yrs old

[Terriergal]

but animals sense fear and feel pain maybe if they did not I would not feel the way I do.

Maybe not. But you have to get a grip. They're animals. They could care less whether they are getting terrorized by another animal or being shot at by a human. It's all in a day's work for them.

[Terriergal]

Well, then more cougars should be shot.

[Terriergal]

See my post at 122. The animal rights nuts who you are parroting have stopped many hunting seasons and put so many regulations on hunting that animals have lost their fear of humans.

[Terriergal]

LOL!

Well now it makes more sense!

[missyme]

I must be talking to most of you that need fur living in the cold, there is definetly "no need for that" in San Diego California.

[Tench_Coxe]

Um, cougars will hunt people. Especially small children.

Coyotes have also been known to hunt children. I read of one scenario in which a homeowner fended off a coyote who was attacking her child in the backyard one afternoon. A well known characteristic of coyotes is their ability to 'lock in' on a target. Well, in the case of the homeowner, for the next couple of weeks the coyote kept coming back at the exact same time every day looking for the kid.

[Terriergal]

I actually saw a proposal by an animal rights idiot -- I repeat, IDIOT -- that deer should only be taken with non-expanding bullets because soft-point bullets were banned (for use in warfare) by the Geneva convention!

oh brother.

I wonder if they'd settle for a fixed blade broadhead. It's non-expanding, that should satisfy that PETA nut. Ya think? I doubt it.

[TYVets]

"What about those new organic, environmentally friendly clays? I'll bet they taste better"

They do have a better taste, but my lips are International Orange for days!