Most states don't even adequately fund existing animal welfare agencies. Now they're expected to provide services for a contingency that may never occur?
The Democrats later claimed to be tricked into voting for it by thinking it was a gay rights bill....
Most animals however are not.
Do we want to save people are just yell at them for being stupid? The old way hasn't worked. Not just with Katrina but other storms have shown that most people don't leave because they have concerns about getting back home or can't take their pets to shelters. I'm not crazy about the feds stepping in, but since plan A isn't working, can we try something else?
http://www.naiaonline.org/body/articles/archives/curric.htm
Excerpt:
HSUS
The Humane Society of the US with its 1.5 million members calls itself the nation’s largest animal protection organization. Few people know that the HSUS animal protection philosophy is not animal welfare but an animal rights philosophy that says it is morally wrong for humans to use or kill animals and that they have been guided by that philosophy since 1980.2
Furthermore, HSUS has set as its goal the abolition of animals in laboratory research and education.3,4,5 In recent years, HSUS elected to call themselves ‘animal protectionists’ to disassociate their group from the bad press that the Animal Liberation Front and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have brought to the animal rights movement. HSUS shares the same animal rights philosophy and goal of abolishing the use of animals in laboratory research as militant animal rights groups, but they differ in tactics and timetable for reaching that goal. Their tactic is to slowly but progressively wean society away from using animals.
In order to avoid the extremist label HSUS has deliberately sought to project a ‘moderate’ image and hide the animal rights message under animal protectionism and the guise of humane and environmental education. Many of the HSUS projects are laudable and could be described as animal welfare. They work very hard to keep that image. Corporate donations and the respect of the education community are dependant on that image. However, their hidden agenda is to get people to give animals the same respect they give humans. What better method to accomplish a change in societal values than by incorporating it into a nationwide elementary school curriculum on humane and environmental education?
NAHEE
Is HSUS a Trojan Horse being covertly carried into the citadel of elementary education?6
HSUS has endeavored to establish itself as The Authority in humane and environmental education. Indeed, the organization has won several awards for KIND News; has had the Adopt-a-Teacher program placed in the 1992 Environmental Success Index; and had a field representatives appointed to the prestigious National Environmental Education Advisory Council of the Environmental Protection Agency.
To help establish this reputation, HSUS created the National Association for Humane and Environmental Education, a separate youth education division. NAHEE had a 1992 budget of $940,000 and 14 full-time staff , an increase of 31 percent over the 1991 budget. The goals for NAHEE were articulated in the 1992 HSUS annual report: “ ... NAHEE strives to ensure that humane attitudes become a viable part of mainstream education and environmental perspectives. ... NAHEE continues to monitor and evaluate new children’s books, children’s magazines, and newspapers as well as all major elementary and secondary teaching magazines and newspapers to encourage the promotion of humane values in publications other than our own.”7
Indeed, NAHEE has been successful in influencing other publications as evidenced by a series of three grossly misleading articles biased against using animals in medical research which appeared in the nine-million circulation Weekly Reader and its companion for middle schools Current Science.6 NAHEE’s influence even extends beyond the USA as they have sent their educational materials to 13 foreign countries.
It is clear that HSUS has been acknowledged as The Authority and is being warmly welcomed through the educational gates of Troy by unsuspecting teachers and administrators who thought they weregetting ‘humane and environmental education’ but ended up with those elements mixed with a subtle animal rights message that says it is wrong for humans to kill, capture, or use animals for any reason. It is a message that elevates respect for animals to the same plane as respect for humans. This is a brilliant tactic as respect and consideration for animals is a hallmark of animal welfare. HSUS has reduced the difference between animal rights and animal welfare to the degree of respect and consideration given animals, thus blurring the difference between the two.
Ladies and gentlebeings, this is your Republican-controlled Senate at work. And they want to get re-elected this year.
this is absolutely insane
This is yet another disgrace. I can't take much more.
I love my dogs dearly, but in an emergency it has to be people first. Those that put the welfare of animals on par with that of humans are sick. It's hard to believe, with all the problems we face, our reps have time for this. What a waste.
So my tax dollars are going to be squandered on people's pets as well as the welfare scum?
requiring local and state disaster agencies to take pets and service animals into account in their emergency planning.
With some exceptions I'd be inclined to save the pets first after viewing many of the video recordings.
Everything is the Fed Gov's business! If you don't believe me, just ask them.
It shouldn't be.
Absolutely a state matter. Actually, an owner matter but there is no such thing as responsibility anymore. These folks didn't even have milk for their kids and they KNEW this was coming!!