Posted on 01/12/2004 11:13:11 AM PST by neverdem
Antis' Efforts to Stop Hunting Backed By Multi-Million Dollar Budgets- (12/31) National Join our e-mail alert list
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
I can answer that.
The enjoyment is in hunting successfully, not killing per se. To obtain game, one is required to kill the animal. If it can be done perfectly, then the animal dies instantly without pain or fear; this is what a good hunter hopes and tries for.
I wasn't even referring to the economics of trapping. I defend it based on wildlife management. It is defensible and the right thing to do.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying trapping is wrong. I'm just saying the practice comes off quite badly in the feel good media, and I, personally, don't want to kill anything unless it becomes food, or it's self-defense.
By the same token, I have no problem with hunting predators like mountain lions and grizzlies. I just have a personal problem with the method, i.e. trappping. Imagine jumping out of a plane and coming down inside the treeline, with your parachute's canopy entangling with the upper branches, swinging like a helpless fool. It happened to me.
I also trapped raccoons as a teenager in the Catskills. I built a big box trap with a door that dropped when they pulled the bait. I'm glad I did it just for fun and let them go.
Genesis 9:2-3 "...the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things." Yes. God says that ALL animal life can be eaten.
BTW, on your profile you identify as a Christan conservative. Are you aware that the whole animal-rights trip (of which the anti-hunting movement is a subset), is rooted in a violently anti-Christian, anti-human worldview? By supporting it, you are unwittingly aiding the enemy.
Do I detect a bit of anti-male hostility here?
Maybe we should outlaw shopping, and institute strict credit card control... and nobody needs to tear apart mother earth so women can wear shiny rocks on their fingers... maybe clothes shopping and jewelry and perfume and cosmetics and ridiculous credit card debts are "Girl Things" but we could all live without them.
How does it feel when it's the other way around?
If you have to ask, you'll never understand.
Animal fats have NO relation to human disease. The coronary and cancer epidemic of the last ~80 years closely tracks the REPLACEMENT of animal fats in the diet with toxic subsitutes such as soybean oil, cottonseed oil, canola oil, etc.
I am in the medical field and nutrition is important.
I am a chemist and I happen to know that the medical field is just plain WRONG about the whole fat question. Here's a good place to start learning the truth: The Oiling of America
Reasons - Food, controlling the size of herds (ever wonder why Connecticut has problems with Lyme Disease?), Maintaining a skill set in the event of disaster.
Some animals that are for eating should be put down very humanely, and animal research is not needed for the most part but if it is it should not have the animal suffering.
Sorry, I work in Biotech and animal testing is needed.
Animals for coats and shoes are barbaric there are plenty of beautiful synthetic or wool coasts Mink is just a status symbol.
There are plenty of leftover cows skins, once McDonalds gets what they want. Why not make shoes?
Fishing for fish well that is hard, I guess fishing is okay but not Marlin, Dolphin, Whale, Seal.
I've caught and eaten plenty of Dolphin, not sure what your attraction is to a dumb fish.
BTW, whales are not fish.
Shooting birds when there flying in the air also should be banned no need for it...
It's more sporting than shooting them on the ground.
LOL, don't be cruel!
Shooting birds when there flying in the air also should be banned no need for it...
It's more sporting than shooting them on the ground.
Shooting game birds on the ground is also highly illegal!
That's been tried. Eastern deer herds are overbreeding and overrunning the suburbs, and the suburban soccer moms who "hate hunting" (read: hate men) are complaining because the deer are eating their garden flowers.
Worse yet, here in California, the ban on cougar hunting has caused the cougar population to expand and *lose its fear of man*. People are getting killed eaten as a result.
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