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

[shaggy eel]

,,, call it resource management. [LOL]

[Tench_Coxe]

"Hey, that convenient-- you can dig up your potatoes already baked!"

Apparently not quite as baked as some of the anti-hunting posts on this thread.

[Terriergal]

No toddlers have been grabbed.

well as some freepers have posted sourced articles, I think you must have missed them. It's not common yet. But black bear attacks weren't common years ago either. They're getting more and more so.

[shaggy eel]

Well y'all I have to go get some work done.

,,, that's a nice way of putting it. Remember, no cages, just a quick squeeze on the trigger.

[missyme]

Shrimp, 9-lives Corn on the Cob and turkey lunch meat

[sauropod]

I call it fun ;-).

[BattleFlag]

I hunted and fished as a kid growing up in the country.

As I grew older I no longer felt comfortable doing either.

But, I am completely comfortable making the choice to not do these things myself without feeling the need to stop others from doing them.

My reasons are my own but barring the existance of some great "wrong" that is occuring (which I am confident is not the case with responsible hunting and fishing), I choose not to impose my beliefs on others and it doesn't bother me one bit that others are doing something I have chosen not to do.

[shaggy eel]

,,, good for you!

[Cyrano]

See every Animal serves a purpose

Some are Entrees, some are Side Dishes...

[Hot Tabasco]

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

San Diego, that explains it. But for your information, if not for sportsmens organizations such as Pheasants Forever, there would not be a pheasant population in the United States. FWIW, pheasants were imported from Europe and have only been able to survive thru the efforts of sportsmen whose financial contributions to the government have helped preserve the habitat necessary to preserve their species.

If not for the sportsmens organizations such as Ducks Unlimited, marshlands and wetlands once under private ownership have been purchased thru the contributions of these sportsmen and preserved to provide the necessary habitat for the proliferation of the respective duck species.......

Virtually every animal and bird species hunted in North America has been made possible by the combined efforts of the Department of Natural Resources and the hunting sportsmen. The reality is, if it wasn't for us sportsmen who cherish the freedom of hunting, most of your wildlife creatures would now be non existant in the United States!

As an extra bit of information for you, 10% of all hunting/fishing revenue sales go to the U.S. Govt. to help preserve the hunting and fishing habitat in this country.

[cavtrooper21]

I was born in Hawaii... which bans almost all forms of hunting no matter what.
It matters who raised you and how, not where.. everyone is entitled to an opinion. You have yours, I have mine and they only slightly overlap.

As for the cougar that was killed out your way, I thought that was wrong... If you want nature, you need to take all of it or none, not just the cute fuzzy bits. The cougar was working on getting dinner, no harm in that. I realized a long time ago that we are only at the top of the food chain because of our brains and opposable thumbs. I think it does people good to sometimes be taken down a rung or two
on the jacob's ladder of life, makes you grateful for what you have, and strips away some of the arrogance we often show towards nature.

[Terriergal]

I'm primarly a meat hunter. But I'll mount a cape if I get a good one:

Last year, taken from the ground with my daughter beside me:

Cyrano OTOH hasn't taken one since 1999 - his first - because he lets me go first (we have kids so one of us stays home with them while the other hunts - and he can stay at home and work from home too so it's less time off work if I go.)

Cyrano says he would never have found this little doe if I hadn't tracked it for him. Hardly any blood trail, ran about 300 yards.

Also this guy who walked about a mile and a half before we jumped him, then chased him another 400 yards, jumping him twice, before he finally expired. That took some dedication. Four hours of tracking in the wet sleet, hardly any snow, hardly any blood again because it wasn't a passthrough. (since then I worked at increasing my Kinetic Energy to avoid these kinds of situations.) He tasted like Outback Steak house, though!

Can you tell I'm not eager to get back to my work? *sigh* Ok I *REALLY* mean it this time I have to work. :-)

[Hot Tabasco]

California rejected Sport hunting the most then Dallas then Jacksonville,

Actually the hunting issues are determined by the areas dominated by socialists who know nothing nor care nothing about the positive environmental impact hunting has.

[missyme]

Are these pictures something to be proud of? you killed Deers and advertising there pictures seems to be very vain.

Wether you beleive it or not some people do not beleive in
Sport Hunting why do you not want to accept that?

I wish I could put up a picture of my cat ZORRO to show how wonderful he is too.

[skepsel]

Well they are messy as all get out, but smart too. We kept a pair of white geese (no idea what breed) when I was a kid in Michigan, along with some other poultry for the table. Those geese were better watch dogs than our lazy amiable german shepard, we came home once to find a tramp sitting on the porch with his arm around the dog and the geese at the steps honking and hissing and raising seven different kinds of hell. But man could they leave a mess.

[.38sw]

I am sure this is a "Guy" thing but it is a sport that most can live without...

Nope, not a guy thing. The NRA (National Rifle Association) has a "Women on Target" program. Many of their activities within this program are organized hunts for women. They are well-attended. I don't think that California has "rejected sport hunting", as I think you said in another post. There are plenty of people in California who hunt and fish.

[crude77]

Man,those are some really great pics! Thanks. It would seem that you have some familiarity with the notion of "The family that hunts together...."

Wish I knew how to post pics. My son(14) got his second deer this year. It was a 5 point, heavy mast and had a 15-1/2" spread. He is still talking about it.

Your pics prompted the reminder from him that we are to take up bow hunting next year.

[crude77]

Venison summer sausage does not last too long when it is anywhere near me. Love that stuff almost as much as venison chili-(which I can't eat much of anymore, because I always eat way too much)

[BattleFlag]

Risks To Animals Increase With Hunters Out Of Equation

[abbi_normal_2]

Yes, the pictures ARE something to be proud of. She eats meat, she hunts for her own, as I do. What's the problem? I think that's called self-sufficency. And as others have mentioned, if it wasn't for hunters funds there wouldn't have nearly as many animals in the wild. It's a sport, a challenge to acquire your own food while enjoying nature.