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
Cool. BTW, it's spelled "nutrition", and you should be recruiting "registered dietitians" for "hospitals".
It was the multitude of spelling and grammar errors on your prior posts that made me look at your home page, as it seemed unlikely that you would have graduated medical or nursing school
Grew up in rural Michigan, now live in a small town of about 9,000.
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.
Animals for coats and shoes are barbaric there are plenty of beautiful synthetic or wool coasts Mink is just a status symbol.
Fishing for fish well that is hard, I guess fishing is okay but not Marlin, Dolphin, Whale, Seal.
Shooting birds when there flying in the air also should be banned no need for it...
Quite the little dictator there aren't you? Sun Girl, is that you?
Your opinions are important to...YOU. No one else.
Quit trying to remake the world to fit your idea of what is right.
If you personally choose not to hunt, I have no problem with that. If you think governments should ban hunting, I have a major problem with that.
My uncle was turkey hunting up near Waters. He was calling in a turkey which was responding. He thinks he has it. Almost in range...and then it takes off and runs to the hills. He was wondering what happened...then he sees this coyote go after the turkey, and it was JUST out of firing range.
My uncle's gotten dozens of deer and several turkeys. His uncle's the same way and even got a bear. Neither have gotten a coyote.
"Coyotes and wolves never attack children, or man unless they are laid out dead, or near death.
I also said I wasn't aware of any documented stories of such attacks. Which you didn't seem to notice. Since that post was short, I also didn't include rabies, or other causes for insanity in animals. The sort of things that means there's always going to be a sport.
For background, I've spent considerable time observing wolves and coyotes. I've corrected gross error in biological surveys for wolves in Quetico Park. Unlike Algonquin, Quetico is wilderness. The experts and biologists had concluded their were no wolves in that section of the park. I brought the rangers to them, showed them where they were and some of what they were up to. The rangers were able to observe with their own eyes what they were recently told was impossible.
The story of the wolf attack is a bit doubtful in itself, but it does fit, "laid out dead". First it's Aug., nighttime and it's in Ontario. If the kid wasn't wearing a mosquito head net, the mosquitos chewing on his face would make him unrecognizable. DEET don't help in such cases. How anyone could even sleep with such a racket as that roar of mosquitoes is a big question. If there was a wolf, it might have thought the kid was dead. If I saw someone laying still on the ground in the Ontario woods at night, I would think they were dead.
Then there's the problem of folks feeding the animals there. The bush pigs go wild and run the place. They have no fear of man. I'm sure the wolves are much less fearful than they otherwise would be for the same reason, but still with all of them there and the animals running the place(because of the tourist behavior)this is the only story that pops up.
"The wolf retreated and then charged at Tracy and Zach. The charges were repeated. Finally the wolf left."
If it was a wolf, which I highly doubt, the wolf was insane. They do not do this unless they are hunting in a pack and the prey is deemed helpless. Crippled prey is also what would cause an initial attack. A lone wolf isn't coming back as these folks claim, unless it's insane-as in psychotic.
They shot a 60lb wolf and I have no idea whether it was the right one, it was somebody's dog that attacked the kid, or even a bush pig.
"Wolf Killed After Attack On Alaska Boy"
First from the story: "Fish and Game officials knew of no other attack by a wolf on a human in recent Alaska history.
Since 1940, 38 people in Alaska have died from dog attacks and 32 from bear attacks, according to reports.
Does this sound like, "wolves coming in dragging our children off into the woods to eat them alive."?
Then: "In the attack, a six-year-old boy was bitten three times on the back.
"Witnesses reported that the wolf tried to carry the boy off into the woods."Doesn't sound credible. This would mean the wolf unnaturally and uncharacteristically, grabbed the flat part of the kid and tried to drag him. A wolf would have gone for the throat and a fast kill. Unless it was a fiegnt and there was no attempt to drag. A kid alone in AK, is defenseless and he was running away.
" The coyote snatched the toddler by the face and was dragging him to nearby bushes. The child's father was able to fight off the coyote with his golf club.
"At that time the coyote dropped the child, then turned around and again came back to attack the child again," said Cindy Beavers, of the San Bernardino Co. Sheriff's Dept.
BS. Take your pick. It was a dog, or it was a dog.
"Please get a clue"
Right.
"Night of the Wolf" READERS DIGEST...MSNBC:
I just knew there had to be something other than FRUITCAKE-LEVEL DENSITY behind some of your posts.
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