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

[Terriergal]

Why can't you just catch them and move them somewhere else

Feel free!

Hosea 4:6 "my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge..."

Proverbs 19:2 It is not good to have zeal without knowledge

Romans 10:2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.

Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.

[TYVets]

I like to shoot Trap.

But, they don't taste very good.

[Terriergal]

You can't simply move animals unless you intend to ship them halfway across the country. They find their way back.

I thought we didn't have any human-free habitat to send them to anyway? (remember the assertion about bear attacks because there isn't enough habitat left?) So we'd just be shipping the problem animals to someone else's backyard right?

[Terriergal]

You can't simply move animals unless you intend to ship them halfway across the country. They find their way back.

I thought we didn't have any human-free habitat to send them to anyway? (remember the assertion about bear attacks because there isn't enough habitat left?) So we'd just be shipping the problem animals to someone else's backyard right?

[Terriergal]

I like to shoot Trap. But, they don't taste very good.

What about those new organic, environmentally friendly clays? I'll bet they taste better.

[Terriergal]

hooked on phonics are you?? bwaaahahah. That's not nice.

[missyme]

I am not a Pita person..
I just do not think that all animals should be hunted for sport if they are hunted due to the enviroment conservation preventing disease ok fine than put them down humanely.

When did the sport of hunting come around anyways? Yes people have hunted for food because they are hungry but if your not hungry, your not doing something for the enviroment or for ecological reasons what good is the hunt it is only for personal enjoyment, I think if you need some enjoyment go canoeing if you want to be in the wilderness.

[Terriergal]

Mink is just a status symbol

I beg to differ, btw... it's also very soft and warm.

[Tench_Coxe]

I'll bet. Coyote fur actually isn't too bad, either. Problem is the buggers aren't worth anything. I wouldn't mind having a heavy leather jacket with a fur lining ( the leather cuts down on the wind, while the fur traps the heat ).

[FSPress]

MMMM - another California republican conservative, eh.

[missyme]

Cougars are eating people because so much of the vegetation has been lost, yes they need to be stopped or moved to prevent further attacks.

[missyme]

I said hunting to prevent a problem with an animal is okay but if your walking through the woods and a fox or deer is taking a siesta it is terrible to think you walk up to it and shoot it.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

The fact is we are at the top of the food chain and have the right, as Americans, to choose what we will and will not eat.

You, and others who think like you, do not have the right to force your chosen lifestyle on other people.

If you think humans are so terrible to animals, why don't you leave your city penthouse and spend a few days in the woods and see how animals terrorize each other in the wild- its worse than anything people do.

The reality is that wildlife is not Bambi. Leave alone what you do not understand.

[Terriergal]

I am not a Pita person..

This kind of Pita

or this kind?:

When did the sport of hunting come around anyways?

Read your Bible:

Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD ; that is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD ."

Proverbs 19:2 It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way.

[missyme]

Yes I know I was making a statement of animals that live in the Ocean or near it.

[Tench_Coxe]

"I thought we didn't have any human-free habitat to send them to anyway? (remember the assertion about bear attacks because there isn't enough habitat left?) So we'd just be shipping the problem animals to someone else's backyard right?"

It already happens. Look at the re-introduction programs for the grey wolf. This was probably decided by some jokers iving in Manhattan. Well, as predicted by those living cose to the land, the range of the wolves has spread, and is driving ranchers out West to distraction.

I know of a couple of recent spottings of panther in Michigan's UP, from first hand accounts ( panther haven't been seen up there for a long time ). The DNR in Michigan denies the sightings.

As far as human-free habitat, some of that comes from NIMBYs who decide that it would be wonderful to live in a planned subdivision out in the sticks ( 'getting back to nature, don't you know, with city water, electricity, natural gas, and cabe TV' ) without considering the fact that bears aren't cuddly, panthers don't eat Whiskers for their meals, and deer are nothing more than rats with big ears and long legs.

[Terriergal]

I like Tanuki, Coyote, and Silver Fox. (very similar to Tanuki but silver/black instead of tan/black.)

I have a short old patchwork mink stroller that's kind of trendy. I always buy used stuff, can't afford new. But even the oldest most beat up rabbit fur cuts through the cold better than the best down coat.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Ban Trapping no need for it...

Ban liberals theres no need for them either!

Ever wear a fur coat? fur lined boots ? coonskin cap? like wearing leather boots ? or alligator hide apparel ?

Thank a Trapper !

[Terriergal]

It already happens.

My point exactly.

I saw a timberwolf a few years ago driving back from the UP. And people had been sighting them off and on for years up there. Hadn't heard about the cats though. Supposedly some doofus accidentally let his russian boars get out of the fence of their game preserve and now they have boars too. Nasty buggers. For now the DNR isn't saying anything one way or the other about whether it's legal to shoot them on sight. So people hopefully are.

[missyme]

Very funny.....PETA ok... got me there

The Bible also says before Adam sinned that the lamb and the lion lay together, we actually did not have permission to eat animals until sin entered the garden. See it was never G-d's intention from the beginning that we did eat animals it was only after sinful acts came into exsistence.