Steve Best, Pamelyn Ferdin, and Jerry Vlasak
Animal Liberation Front
hat tip to Calpernia
Steve Best, Pamelyn Ferdin, and Jerry Vlasak
Animal Liberation Front
hat tip to Calpernia
Animal welfare celebrates the bond between animals and humans; animal rights
wants to sever that bond.
"It is time we demand an end to the misguided and abusive concept
of animal ownership. The first step on this long, but just, road would be
ending the concept of pet ownership." -Elliot Katz, President, In Defense
of Animals, "In Defense of Animals," Spring 1997
Animal welfare grows and improves as we learn more and more about animals,
their behavior, and their management. Animal rights remains stagnant with its
dogma of “no more animal use ever.”
"Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles--from
our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave it."
– John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic (Washington,
DC: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), 1982), p. 15.
Animal welfare is inclusive; its belief in stewardship of species and individual
animals embraces a human connection to the Earth through interaction with animals.
Animal rights is divisive; by separating the destiny of man from the destiny
of animals, the movement shows it cares nothing for the Earth.
"...the animal rights movement is not concerned about species extinction.
An elephant is no more or less important than a cow, just as a dolphin is
no more important than a tuna...In fact, many animal rights advocates would
argue that it is better for the chimpanzee to become extinct than to be exploited
continually in laboratories, zoos and circuses." (Barbara Biel, The Animals'
Agenda, Vol 15 #3.)
Animal welfare makes room for a broad spectrum of animal relationships that
include raising and using animals for food, fiber, labor, and medical and behavioral
research; managing animal populations by hunting; keeping animals in zoos and
other educational venues; and enjoying animal sports and animals in movies,
circuses, and on stage.
Animal rights opposes all traditional relationships with animals, from eating
meat and wearing leather and wool to biomedical research, pet ownership, dog
and cat breeding, circuses, zoos, hunting, trapping, ranching, fishing, and
learning about animals by hands-on experience.
"If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make any difference
to me." –Chris DeRose, director, Last Chance for Animals, as quoted in
Elizabeth Venant and David Treadwell, "Biting Back," Los Angeles Times, April
12, 1990, p. E12.
"My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism."
– Henry Spira, director, Animal Rights International, as quoted in Barnaby
J. Feder, "Pressuring Purdue," New York Times Magazine, November 26, 1989,
p. 192.
“Founded in 1980, PETA operates under the simple principle that animals
are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.” –
PeTA’s website, August 2000
Animal welfare requires humane treatment of animals on farms and ranches,
in circuses and rodeos, and in homes, kennels, catteries, laboratories, and
wherever else animals are kept. Animal welfare endorses a quick death when death
is inevitable and a scientific approach to commercial use and management of
wild populations.
Animal rights works for the day when we will have no interactions with animals
but will view them from afar.
“I don’t approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves
touching them – caging them” – Dr. Neal Barnard, Physician’s Committee
for Responsible Medicine
“We don’t want cleaner cages, we want empty cages.” – Tom Regan,
animal rights leader
In short, animal welfare works to enrich and celebrate human/animal interactions
in an atmosphere of concern for animal well-being; animal rights yearns for
the day when human life will be impoverished because we can no longer enjoy
the company of non-human animals.
http://www.state.nj.us/sci/pdf/spca.pdf
Excerpt:
The movement [SPCA] had its roots in the efforts of Henry Bergh, a European aristocrat who, following his appointment in 1863 to a diplomatic post at the Russian Court of Czar Alexander II, championed the cause of animals against inhumane treatment. Bergh soon immigrated to America, but only after stopping in London to confer with the president of England's Royal Society. In February 1866, Bergh delivered an impassioned speech at New York City's Clinton Hall before an audience that included influencial government and business leaders.
In recounting the horrific practices in America of the inhumane treatment of animals, he emphasized that the protection of animals had neither class lines nor political boundaries. Bergh's speech was covered extensively by the press. Recognizing that anti-cruelty statutes were meaningless in the absence of enforcement, Bergh's approach was two pronged. His efforts culminated in the New York Legislature's passage of a charter incorporating the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on april 10, 1866, and nine days later, of an anti-cruelty law that vested the society with the authority to enforce it. Bergh, whose successes were due largely to his political and social connections, was elected as the society's first president.
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Excerpt:
The SPCAs are accountable to no governmental authority. Because there are no standards, rules or guidelines governing their composition, operation, training or activities, there is no consistancy or uniformity in their make-up, functioning or enforcement of the laws. These autonomous organizations present a true hodgepodge of extreme diversity and a danger to the state's structured system of law enforcement. Once individuals in a county receive a charter from the state SPCA, they control the selection, discipline and removal of their members, officers and agents; the election of terms of office of members of the board of directors; the content of any by-laws; the formulation of any rules or regulations; what training, if any will be provided; how they will enforce the animal cruelty laws, and how they will spend the income. As a result, the SPCAs run the gamut in effectiveness of operation, scrupulousness in financial matters and enforcement of the cruelty laws. While some are operated in a highly professional manner, according to set rules and regulations, others are run as the personal domain of a well entrenched few who discard the rules on whim. Many individuals involved in these societies are dedicated to the welfare of animals and committed to functioning within an organized, structed environment, while others are 'wannabe cops' or motivated by personal gain. Because the SPCAs operate outside the realm of government, they have become havens for those who cannot obtain legitimate law enforcement positions.
"Jerry Vlasak was defending his 2003 statement (made as a PCRM spokesperson) that political assassination "could be used quite effectively from a pragmatic standpoint ... for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives."
Great Britain has banned Vlasak and his wife (former child actress Pamelyn Ferdin) because of this and other threats."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1510429/posts
hat tip to Constitutionalist Conservative
Is it ecologically justifiable to burn Ann Coulter's book?
Does the good (riddance) justify the destruction of bio-dgradable material and the creation of global warming gases?
To find out, place a display of books in the Student Union or Quad and see what happens.
/^:)
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| Income | $28,926,924.00 | |
| Expenditures | $25,063,060.00 | |
| End-Of-Year Net Worth | $11,479,793.00 | |
| Tax Status | 501(c)3 | |
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| Glaser Progress Foundation | |
| Grant | $153,000.00 in 2000 |
| Source | Chronicle Of Philanthropy |
| Details | For Web-site and technological development; (IRS Form 990 lists : For Website and Anti-Fur Campaign) |
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| Glaser Progress Foundation | |
| Grant | $26,488.00 in 1999 |
| Source | IRS Form 990 or 990-PF |
| Details | For a fundraising event |
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| Comedy Central Network | |
| Grant | $200,000.00 in 2005 |
| Source | Lexis News Archive |
| Details | Donation made in exchange for Pamela Anderson's appearance on a "celebrity roast" |
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| Funding From Foundations & Corporations |
Total Donated |
Time Frame |
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| Animal Charities of America | $1,137,299.00 | 1997 – 2001 | |
| Glaser Progress Foundation | $304,488.00 | 1999 – 2002 | |
| American Foundation Corporation | $272,794.00 | 1998 – 2002 | |
| Park Foundation | $250,000.00 | 1996 – 1999 | |
| Alexander Foundation | $200,000.00 | 1998 – 2002 | |
| Comedy Central Network | $200,000.00 | 2005 – 2005 | |
| Sparrow's Song Foundation | $150,000.00 | 1999 – 2001 | |
| Komie Foundation | $90,000.00 | 1998 – 2001 | |
| Bryan C. & Christina I. Cressey Foundation | $61,000.00 | 1999 – 2002 | |
| Haber Family Foundation | $60,000.00 | 2000 – 2001 | |
| Lee-Kahn Foundation | $60,000.00 | 1999 – 2002 | |
| Pond Foundation | $59,400.00 | 1998 – 2002 | |
| W.K. Gordon Jr. Family Foundation | $56,000.00 | 1997 – 2002 | |
| DTS Charitable Foundation | $55,000.00 | 1999 – 2001 | |
| Gary Broad Foundation | $50,000.00 | 1998 – 2002 | |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors | $31,600.00 | 1997 – 2001 | |
| Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation | $30,000.00 | 2000 – 2002 | |
| Judi & Howard Strauss Foundation | $28,500.00 | 1998 – 2001 | |
| Jain Foundation | $25,000.00 | 2000 – 2000 | |
| Black Cat Foundation | $25,000.00 | 1998 – 2001 | |
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| Funding From Other Activist Groups |
Total Donated |
Time Frame |
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| Tides Foundation & Tides Center |
$69,258.00 | 2003 – 2003 | |
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| Doris Duke | $1,000,000.00 | 1993 – 1993 | |
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