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

[Double Tap]

WOW, you really missed the whole point. You were the one saying you would "Ban" hunting. You are the one that would change the world to fit what you want, and damn everyone elses rights and desires.

Maybe I'm reading more into your last sentence, but are you saying that you are Sungirl? That you registered under a different name after being banned?

[hellinahandcart]

you know I sent my picture for a reason and that is I am a REAL person withn REAL feelings

Heck, girl, all we wanted was a picture of Zorro playing with his balls.

You can turn off the waterworks. You were BEGGING for a flaming, and you know it.

[missyme]

No I did not say I was Sungirl you said that! and I went along with you because I have been arguing which I hate to do with most everyone on this thread.
Obviously you have seen my screen name so you knew who I was and who you were speaking too, so tell me who is banned me or someone else?

[missyme]

Ok your right I wanted you all to see I was a hypocrite that was wearing a fur hat caught by beaver trappers in Idaho. Are you always so pleasant? Are you a girl or a guy? I wondered how many women and how many men I was speaking to yesterday with my slam session.

[cavtrooper21]

My bet is/was on a hybrid mix when I first read the article... they're hard to tell apart from the 100% wolves, but they have enough domestic dog in them to be less than fearful of humans.
I had to put one of these down when I was an LEO in Texas.
Big, fast and aggressive.... and completely whacked.
I felt pretty bad, after all, the animal didn't ask to be bred and damn sure didn't ask to be treated the way it was. I did give some thought to putting down the owner. Unfortunately stupidity isn't a crime.

[Dan from Michigan]

Sport hunting of any kind should be banned there is no reason for it none...

THAT'S the problem most of us have. The word BANNED. Running to big government. If you said that you personally didn't hunt and didn't mention the word banned or a word with a similar meaning, you would not have been flamed one bit as that was simply a personal choice.

And as for that part about feelings. Who cares. That may cold and blunt, but I could give a rip about feelings, especially when hunters like myself have to spend millions of dollars in political campaigns to defend our way of life against rich elitist cityfolk from New York, Chicago, Hollywood, and San Francisco who dump in their billions of dollars out here in Michigan(where they don't live) to force their crap on us. People and orgs like the Tides Foundation, George Soros, and the like.

That doesn't count the daily barrage of crap from ignorant jackasses always portraying us as bubbas with a beer in one hand, and a gun in the other. I never mix the two, and the hunters I know don't. But that's what's on TV, in the movies and sitcoms.

[Nakota]

The Geneva Convention requires

Name: Bambi

Rank: fawn

Serial Number: 1954Disnye

We will now provide this information to the International Red Cross

[Double Tap]

No, I never said you were Sungirl, I asked. You post the same PETA type bilge as she did.

Sungirl was banned last year. As far as I know, you haven't been banned. You haven't said anything that should get you banned, but you set yourself up for the flame fest you received.

[missyme]

Okay Dan from Michigan I was wrong.

When I think of hunting being banned I think of what I see as Baby Seals being pounded in the head, or when Zoo animals are put into a room for hunters to kill or when Birds that are endangered are killed while flying in the air. I am sticking to my guns on those issues that type of hunting should be "banned"

As far as Deer, Elk, Beavers, Cougars I had no right to comment on that. I live at the beach and so I never see any hunting going on with the exception of those hunting two legged creatures on the sand. I do apologize.

[Dan from Michigan]

I see as Baby Seals being pounded in the head, or when Zoo animals are put into a room for hunters to kill or when Birds that are endangered are killed while flying in the air.

That's illegal mostly(in the US anyway) and what we call POACHING.

[MacDorcha]

volture? was that some kind of pun on computers?
and "you're" when you you're trying to tell someone what they are is what you need to use. if you spelled it how you meant to spell it, i must say you have quite a language there.

[missyme]

Ok let's get something straight I am not Sungirl. My name is Susanne registered as Missyme.


I am not affiliated with PETA or any other group. I am not a groupie kinda girl.

And yes I had a GIGANTIC dose of what it's like to be flamed.

[hellinahandcart]

I'm a girl, if that matters. So was Terriergal, in case that flew over your head.

And I can be even more pleasant, if you continue to whine about your treatment.

[missyme]

Volture is my name for a dweeb.

And since I am not the greatest typist I never worry about how I am spelling unless it involves my work, guess I should change that habit here.

[MacDorcha]

volture is your word for dweeb?


....o...........k...... ::steps away slowly::

would "vulture" be the word you are gropping for?

[MacDorcha]

btw, quit taking things so personally. this place has been around since before you came to it. alot of people have come and gone on both good and bad notes. they took you for someone that once posted here. learn and move on. no crying needed, you have no face that you arent willing to post here.

[missyme]

Yes it does it just tells me what kind of female you are.
I wonder how you carry yourself in public.

And your definition about whining is proably a heck alot different from mine...

[hellinahandcart]

And for the record, I have never fired a gun and don't hunt. But I approve wholeheartedly of hunting. And I disapprove of ignorant ninnies who think their FEELINGS entitle them to trample on the rights of others.

[MacDorcha]

not a matter of changing habit, simply a matter of if you want to make a case (aside from my point of just being too lazy to capialize and some other punctuations) make it formal. it just goes further.

[missyme]

NO volture is what I wanted.

Right now I have taken things very personally.
Maybe that is wrong or I just need a cooling off period.

I want to leave FR and I don't want to leave because I hate to think of myself as a quiter or a baby.

I don't know people that don't know you don't give a crap anyways...I just need to move on from this...