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

[missyme]

I suppose you do not own a Cat????

[gundog]

Shooting game birds on the ground is also highly illegal!

Where? Not in Oregon. I think prohibitions on shooting birds on the ground or water are more about keeping people(well, OK, idiots) from shooting at decoy spreads and hitting the attendant hunters.

[gundog]

Bowhunter, eh? Good for you. Especially good that you didn't hunt with a setup you weren't confident with. I've got some nice racks that were lost by incompetent bowhunters.

I'm getting interal server errors in the Freepmail, so I'll respond here: I don't think Sunny will be able to post without lapsing into her signature CAPS LOCK AS HTML style of getting her point across.:)

[SauronOfMordor]

Why can't you just catch them and move them somewhere else, and you are right no Beavers in San Diego but if I had any I would put them in a place where they could build there dams they serve a purpose in life...

In the absence of predators, the natural tendency of any animal species is for the population to explode from high breeding rates. The critters then destroy the environment as they try to hold off starvation by eating everything in sight. You need predators to keep their population in check

Four-legged predators have their own problems. Deer make annoying neighbors in suburban developments (as they eat peoples perrenials, rosebushes, tomato plants, and whatever else they can think of) but controlling their numbers by introducing wolves and mountain lions creates problems for any people living nearby (as those California bike-riders discovered). Little kids make tasty snacks for predators who have lost their fear of man (They only DEVELOPED a healthy fear when being seen by a human meant you were going to get shot)

The only predator capable of holding down animal populations without creating worse problems for people, are human hunters and trappers. License fees from hunting permits also pay a lot of the expenses associated with keeping the wildlife preserves and parks open (camera-toting bunny huggers get in for free)

[SauronOfMordor]

I am in the medical field and nutrition is important.

Your home page says you're a recuiter. Which is it? Recruiting nurses for temp work is not "being in the medical field".

[MacDorcha]

well darn, ill just let them deer overpopulate then and kill each other of by starving.

be careful what you say has no purpose. everything has a purpose, whether you can see it or not.

[Blue Scourge]

are you serious...you remind me of the group of people who once came out and tried to picket my father and I from going on a hunting reserve on opening day....

[MacDorcha]

reason one:

clip of bullets: $20

transporting several beavers to other places: $several million.

reason two: the other places already have their beavers.

reason three: what if you missed the young ones?

i could go on....

[SauronOfMordor]

Coyotes and wolves never attack children, or man unless they are laid out dead, or near death.

Wolf attacks on humans excerpt:

Algonquin Provincial Park is one of several areas where people are encouraged to "howl" at the wolves in hopes of a response from the wild wolves in the area. In August, 1996, the Delventhal family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were spending a nine-day family vacation in Algonquin and joined a group of Scouts in "howling" at the wolves. They were answered by a solitary wolf.

That night the Delventhals decided to sleep out under the stars. Young Zachariah was dreaming when he suddenly felt excruciating pain in his face. A lone wolf had bit him in the face and was dragging him from his sleeping bag. Zach screamed and Tracy, Zach's mother, raced to his side and picked him up, saturating her thermal shirt with blood from Zach's wounds.

The wolf stood menacingly less than a yard away. Tracy yelled at her husband, Thom, who leapt from his sleeping bag and charged the wolf. The wolf retreated and then charged at Tracy and Zach. The charges were repeated. Finally the wolf left.

Thom turned a flashlight on the 11-year-old Zach and gasped "Oh my God!" The boy's face had been ripped open. His nose was crushed. Parts of his mouth and right cheek were torn and dangling. Blood gushed from puncture wounds below his eyes, and the lower part of his right ear was missing. Zach was taken to a hospital in Toronto where a plastic surgeon performed four hours of reconstructive surgery. Zach received more than 80 stitches in his face.

Canadian officials baited the Delventhals campsite and captured and destroyed a 60-pound male wolf. No further attacks have occurred since. (Cook, Kathy; "Night of the Wolf" READERS DIGEST, July 1997, p. pp. 114-119)

also Wolf Killed After Attack On Alaska Boy

[MacDorcha]

im sorry missy, i understand you are trying to do the right thing, but understand that it is misguided.

think of it this way. we are humans, creatures put on this earth by the same means the animals where. the animals not only kill each other, but some overrun and chase out others so that they may thrive better. if we dont follow that same rule of nature, we risk forcing those animals into doing what some of us do when we move in. we would force it's new environment into either being overwhelmed by the new population or killing off what we brought over their. then the actual monetary costs, and labour. and THEN we'd have to fix the new mess we made by displacing several animals.

[MacDorcha]

that's also why God gave us fire. :)

[SauronOfMordor]

They watch, but are not stalking. They nail the yuppies' pooches all the time. Most folks just find the rindstone collar. No toddlers have been grabbed.

MSNBC: Golfer Rescues Son From Coyote

The coyote snatched the toddler by the face and was dragging him to nearby bushes. The child's father was able to fight off the coyote with his golf club.

"At that time the coyote dropped the child, then turned around and again came back to attack the child again," said Cindy Beavers, of the San Bernardino Co. Sheriff's Dept.

Please get a clue

[MacDorcha]

huh... lol, admin typo? never saw that b4.

i have witnessed history!

[MacDorcha]

i think that's totally up to God to decide. our thoughts on it are irrelevant.

[missyme]

You made some great points and I do understand that. I think what alot of people miss from those of us that do not live in rural areas, is that we see the down side of hunting never the upside, we hear the worst stories of hunting, we visually see the worst of hunting, we see the population growth explode to areas kicking wild life out of areas where they have live hundreds of years.

We hear of Mad Cow disease, SARS, Saminonella poisoning, diseases in shell fish,etc, if that is all you heard and seen what would your outlook on hunting be?

[MacDorcha]

you seem to be thinking of vultures....

[MacDorcha]

passive-aggresive beaver is good enough for me... wait, all beaver is passive-aggressive ;)

[Guillermo]

Sorry, but you're a moron, and a dangerous one at that.

Since when do YOU determine the "needs" of others?

What if I say you don't NEED your computer? Should I be allowed to take it away from you?

If you don't like hunting, trapping or fishing, don't hunt, trap or fish.

Leave everyone else alone, you're not their nanny.