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

[blackie]

If we weren't supposed to eat animals, God wouldn't have made them outa meat.

You haven't lived until you've killed, skinned, dressed, butchered and barbecued a wild animal. Yum!

[cmak9]

Just because you say it's so, doesn't mean that it's so. Doesn't the Bible say that man was given dominion over animals? Of course, there should be anti-cruelty measures, but many people make their living from animals.

[shaggy eel]

it is a sport that most can live without...

,,, six billion souls on the planet and you get to be the judge?

[missyme]

I am truly not trying to razzle anybody's feathers, but is this issue an opinion on the treatment of animals or is it something else..yes of course I will listen to what you have to say on this...

[CSM]

"what I am trying to say is that hunting for sport serves what purpose?"

Ever hear of father son bonding? Or would you prefer that your children never really bond with their father? If you have never hunted with your dad, then you have no idea of the bond that can occur while hunting or fishing!

[missyme]

Oh yes!!! that is why I responded because I have been posting with others on the religious site about Animals there rights by G-d and there treatment. As I mentioned before look at all the diseases people are getting from eating animals they have no buisness eating like the Chinese and the Civet cat which is in the skunk family they carry papasites and can cause there SARS epidemic yet they brred them stuff them in cages and now 10,000 are going to be executed that is not right.

[blackie]

Right-on ~ CSM!

[missyme]

No of course not, just do some volunteer rescue work for the animals when we had the fires

[missyme]

OK :-)

[shaggy eel]

,,, you won't find one person here who would endorse cruelty to animals. Hunting is something that goes back to the dawn of history. Over the centuries, as weapons have been perfected, the quickness of a kill has been bettered and all who partake are happier about that. It's been a long time since I've been hunting, but on December 30 I bagged a goat on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. The legs were Greek roasted and the balance went for crayfish bait - with superb results. I wouldn't kill anything for the sake of it. If it's dropped, it's dropped quickly and it's for food. If it was killing just to keep the population down, that's not my reason for hunting and I'd find something else to do. I doubt many on this site would differ from those ethics, generally.

[CSM]

Because of your profile, I feel obligated to direct you to Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [ 1:26 Hebrew; Syriac [ all the wild animals ] ] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
(Whole Chapter: Genesis 1 In context: Genesis 1:25-27)

[missyme]

Okay to some degree I will agree with you..
But all I am saying is that there are others that show hunting to be a cruelty act.
In fact they showed a program regarding animals at the Zoo and when there no longer used they are put in a room for hunters to kill, now that is BS.

[CSM]

I should have included Father/Daughter bonding. I know many father's and daughters have enjoyed this sport as well as sons! (That is the end of my PCness)

[rebelyell]

Indeed. I am cooking duck tonight, esp. for my children because they love it so. This morning we had venison sausage. Mmmm Mmmmm

The simple fact is that our creator put animals on this earth to satisfy our needs. They have no rights. Period.

[CSM]

That is not hunting, and it is intellectually dishonest to say that it is! Most states have laws against such activities and most of those laws are supported by Hunters!

[missyme]

So you beleive that all animals can be consumed? Jesus ate fish, berries nuts wine yogurt bread and proably some lamb at the Passover, he was not promoting every animal consumable.

[CSM]

Send me your address, I will be there at 6:30.......What kind of bottle do you want me to bring?