Legislative and Other Links

Information and links to websites concerning legislative issues.

1. http://pet-law.com/index.html

   Please read this website and learn what we animal lovers are up against, then please pass this onto to all the people you know, it's a matter of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Thank you FOR TAKING THE TIME FOR THE ANMALS.

2. Twelve Step ANIMAL RIGHTS AGENDA
   1. Abolish by law all animal research. (There would be no cures for AIDS, cancer, heart disease, etc., and testing of new drugs would be done on humans, or not at all.)
   2. Outlaw the use of animals for cosmetic and product testing, and classroom demonstration (physicians would perform their first surgeries and procedures on humans without any previous experience).
   3. Vegetarian meals should be at all public institutions, including schools.
   4. Eliminate all animal agriculture (resulting in no milk, eggs, chicken, fish, or meat for food, no leather for shoes or clothing). (How many foods do you eat that contain eggs or dairy products, or a derivative of the same? Did you know your keyboard and mouse may have been made with animal products?)
   5. Eliminate all herbicides, pesticides or other agricultural chemicals. Outlaw predator control.(Farmers would not be able to produce as much food as they do now, driving the cost of living up, and eliminating the export of food to hungry nations. Animals such as coyotes are already a problem in some areas, coming into yards to eat garbage and prey upon outdoor pets.)
   6. Transfer enforcement of animal welfare legislation away from the Department of Agriculture. (Animal issues would be controlled by people with little or no experience in customary animal husbandry).
   7. Eliminate fur ranching and the use of furs.
   8. Prohibit hunting, trapping and fishing.
   9. End the international trade in wildlife goods.
   10. Stop any further breeding of companion animals, including purebred dogs and cats. Spaying and neutering should be subsidized by state and municipal governments until all companion animals are extinct. Abolish commerce in animals for the pet trade. Eliminate pet ownership.
   11. End the use of animals in entertainment and sports (resulting in no horse shows, cat or dog shows, animal actors, rodeos, animal movie stars).
   12. Prohibit the genetic manipulation of the species (resulting in the elimination of critical medical research relating to Cancer, AIDS and other life threatening diseases, as well as crop production improvements such as the difference between the Holstein and the Angus, and eliminate all pedigreed animals, etc... ).

   To read more information about the animals rights agenda, go to http://www.angelfire.com/oh/turkishangora/animalrights/agenda.html

3. Quote From Wayne Pacelle, President of HSUS

   Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States [the "HSUS"] is scheduled to be the keynote speaker for the Cat Writers Association ["CWA"] meeting this coming November. The Presiding officer over CWA is one of Pacelle's chief officers in the HSUS.

   His biography can be found at http://www.activistcash.com/biography_quotes.cfm/bid/3366

   From Wayne Pacelle:

   • "We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States ... We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state."
     - Full Cry magazine, Oct 1990
   • "We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture."
     - "Animal Rights 2002" convention, Jul 2002
   • "Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as cock fighting and dog fighting."
     - Bozeman (MT) Daily Chronicle, Oct 1991
   • "We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding ...One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding."
     - Animal People News, May 1993
   • "If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would."
     - Associated Press, Dec 1991
   
   
4. FROM THE PeTA STATEMENT ON COMPANION ANIMALS:
   • In a perfect world, all other-than-human animals would be free of human interference, and dogs and cats would be part of the ecological scheme, as they were before humans domesticated them and as they remain in some parts of the undeveloped world.
   • "The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the domestic cat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist." --John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic (Washington, DC: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), 1982), p. 15.
   
   
5. ANIMAL RIGHTS...IN THE WORDS OF ITS LEADERS:
   
   • "I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out." (Harper's Magazine, Aug. 1988)
   • "I think the whole concept of private property as an ultimate 'good' has got to be replaced. There's a higher good out there than private property...." David Foreman, co-founder and leader, Earth First! (Animal Rights Reporter, June, 1989)
   • "You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them....One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild....They would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV." ("Where Would We Be Without Animals?", Chicago Daily Herald, March 1, 1990)
   • "Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation." Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA, "Just Like Us? Toward a Notion of Animal Rights" (symposium) Harper's, August 1988, p. 50.
   • "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 D C, PeTA, 1982). p. 15
   • "As the surplus of cats and dogs (artifically engineered by centuries forced breeding) declined, eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment from a distance." Ingrid Newkirk, "Just Like Us?......(see above)
   • ALEX PACHECO, CHAIRMAN, PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS (PETA)
     
     • "We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child" (New York Times, January 14, 1989)
   • GARY FRANCIONE, DIRECTOR OF THE RUTGERS ANIMAL RIGHTS LAW CLINIC, THE ANIMALS' VOICE, VOL. 4, NO. 2, pp. 54-55.
   • "The theory of animal rights is simply not consistent with the theory of animal welfare or other approaches that reject the rights view and, more importantly, embrace animal exploitation. Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and nonhumans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes. then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights."
   • FRANCIONE AND REGAN, "A MOVEMENT'S MEANS CREATE ITS ENDS," ANIMALS' AGENDA, JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1992.
   • "As long as humans have rights and nonhumans do not, as is the case in the welfarist framework then nonhumans will virtually always lose when their interests conflict with human interests. Thus welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved."
   • DAVID FOREMAN CO-FOUNDER AND LEADER, EARTH FIRST!
   • "I think the whole concept of private property as an ultimate good has got to be replaced. There's a higher good out there than private property." (Animal Rights Reporter, June, 1989)
   • MORE:
   • Regan, when asked which he would save, a dog or a baby, if a boat capsized in the ocean: "If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog." (Q&A session following speech, "Animal Rights, Human Wrongs, University Of Wisconsin-Madison, October 27, 1989).
   • OTHER QUOTES REGARDING ANIMAL RIGHTS GOALS
   • "The liberation of animal life can only be achieved through radical transformation of human consciousness and the overthrow of the existing power structures which human and animal abuse are entrenched." Trans-Species Unlimited (Readers Digest, June 1990)
   • The animal rights movement is " part of a revolutionary process aimed at restructuring the major institution of society...." Dr. Morgan, Mobilization for Animals (from his book, Love and Anger, An animal rights organizers' handbook)
   • AND LEST WE FORGET WHERE WE'VE SEEN SIMILAR RHETORIC AND ANIMAL RIGHTS TRUMPETED BEFORE:

     "Man should not feel so superior to animals. He has no right to." - Adolph Hitler.

6. Resurrection of AB1634 Press Release AB1634 is the so-called "Healthy Pet Act", which is really the "Healthy Pet Extinction Act". Here are some comments about the current status (as of 7/15/07) of AB1634 in California.
   

   Although AB 1634 was put on hold until the 2008 legislature, its campaign director, Judie Mancuso states the bill is "alive and well" and Assemblyman Lloyd Levine is busy trying to hatch new amendments. There are similar efforts to put mandatory sterilization ordinances into place in many localities such as Santa Barbara, Kern, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties.

   These efforts are backed by the same groups that supported AB 1634, namely, animal rights extremists.

   With excellent no-kill programs already fully implemented in counties such as San Diego and San Francisco, it begs the question -- Why do these groups not put forth the same effort to duplicate these successful programs in these same locations where they are trying to force mandatory sterilization on the pet population? Why waste precious limited tax dollars on reinventing the wheel?

   One of the animal rights activists' models is LA City. Los Angeles County Animal Services has a budget of $16 million.$13 million alone goes toward salaries. That is double New York City's animal services budget! Where is the accountability and competent management? There are 8 new shelters being built in Los Angeles County for a projected cost of $180 million. LA City has enacted differentiated licensing fees and is in process of enacting mandatory spay and neuter. If these programs work, then why spend our tax dollars on more shelters? Why would any county much less the entire state wish to perpetuate the fiscal fiasco of Los Angeles?

   Local communities that understand the financial benefits of animal activities like Long Beach should take this opportune time to educate their local legislators as to the difference in animal rights versus animal welfare. The agenda of animal rights is on the opposite spectrum of animal welfare. Animal rights activists want to end the use of all domestic animals. Animal welfare activists are concerned with humane treatment.

   Additionally, the American public is waiting to hear the outcome of the Louisiana State Attorney General's investigation into the Humane Society of the United States regarding the missing $34 million donated by Americans for Katrina pet relief. HSUS has no pet shelters or adoption facilities. The hundreds of millions donated each year to this organization and other like animal rights groups usurp funds that could be used for the welfare of pets and prevent them from ending up in shelters. In a survey of donors, most erroneously believed that these funds went to their local shelters.

   Contact for further info: Diane Amble (650)296-2169 wethepeople2007@gmail.com

7. Cherie Graves
   

   ARs TOO QUIET FOLLOWING LEVINE'S PULLING OF AB1634

   In the old western movies the hero would cast a look around the campfire and quietly tell his compadres, "It's too quiet out there." It is not in the nature of the animal rights adherents to be so quiet following on the heels of a setback, or defeat of their plans. Take it from me, it is too quiet out there in AR land. I have a very strong feeling that rather than quietly licking their wounds, they are in fact laying plans, and circling their wagons for another push from a different direction.

   California pet owners must take this opportunity to contact their legislators and get them to initiate legislative protections for animal ownership. They must call for the California Shelter system to be brought under the constraint of the California Department of Agriculture, with some very stringent guidelines. The shelter systems across this country have had too free a hand for too long.

   Responsible Dog Owners of the Western States requests that cities, counties, and states call for the following changes in protocols for laws governing animal control agencies, and for shelters that are supported by public funds;

   1. Only dogs/cats that come into animal control with registration papers from a pure-bred registry to be identified by breed.
   2. Dogs/cats will be identified by size, weight, sex, intact status, approximate age, color, and markings.
   3. Every dog/cat taken in will have a record of where it came from, and its final disposition.
   4. All dogs/cats imported from outside of the locale of the area served by animal control or shelter must be quarantined separately from local animals for a period of six months prior to being offered for placement to the public, or being transported to another venue. Their city, county, state, or country of origin must be prominently displayed on the gate of the quarantine quarters. No public moneys shall be used for the care and upkeep of imported animals.
   5. Only local animal intake figures will be used to cite unwanted animals in each animal control agency, or shelter’s locale. No imported animals will be used in intake figures.
   6. No animal control agency, or shelter shall breed animals, or cause animals to be bred for the purpose of adding to intake figures.
   7. No owner reclaimed animal shall be spayed/neutered without express permission of the owner.
   8. No animal control agency, or shelter shall cause any legislation that mandates against the ownership, or use of animals, as it is a conflict of interest.

   Cherie Graves, chairwoman
   Responsible Dog Owners of the Western States

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