RSS feedNational Ads Expose Humane Society of the United States’ Misallocation of Donor Funds
Watchdog Group’s Full-Page Ads in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times Separate Fact from Fiction.
HumaneWatch.org
Washington, DC –-(AmmoLand.com)- Full page ads from the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) appear in today’s New York Times and the Washington, DC edition of The Wall Street Journal, highlighting the failure of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to donate a significant amount of its members’ contributions to America’s underfunded dog and cat shelters.
The ad encourages readers to visit HumaneWatch.org, CCF’s website devoted to analyzing the activities of HSUS.
HSUS Gives Less than 1% of Donations to Pet Shelters
The Humane Society of the United States has become the animal rights industry’s most powerful player, avoiding significant public scrutiny for decades. CCF believes that HSUS donors will be surprised to learn that in 2008, less than one-half of one percent of HSUS’s budget consisted of grants to the hands-on “humane societies” that deal with the thankless task of sheltering unwanted pets. A national poll conducted in February by Opinion Research Corporation found that 59 percent of Americans falsely believe HSUS “contributes most of its money to local organizations that care for dogs and cats.”
“HSUS is a humane society in name only,” said David Martosko, CCF’s Director of Research and the writer behind the HumaneWatch.org blog.
“The Humane Society of the United States raises tens of millions of dollars annually from Americans who believe their donations filter down to local pet shelters, directly improving the lives of dogs and cats. But instead, their donations support a huge staff of lawyers and lobbyists, bloated executive pension plans, exorbitant fundraising expenses, and PETA-style propaganda campaigns. Animal lovers should start holding the group to a higher standard.”
The ad is available for download here.
It reads: SURPRISED to hear the Humane Society of the United States shares less than 1 percent of your donations with local pet shelters?
The Humane Society of the United States is NOT your local animal shelter.
Don’t get fooled, go to HumaneWatch.org
For more information, visit HumaneWatch.org. To arrange an interview, please call Allison Miller at 202.463.7112.
The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit watchdog organization that informs the public about the activities of tax-exempt activist groups. It is supported by American consumers, business organizations, and foundations.
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Thank you for helping to expose the “Humane Society of the United States” for what they really are.
They are NOT an animal shelter, and everyone needs to know that.
Their millions in donations go for the most part to pay high-level attorneys and lobbyists to pass laws that aim at their secret, underlying goal in life: NO ANIMAL USE WHATSOEVER. No hunting, no fishing, no pets, no farm animals, no products from animals such as leather, wool, milk, cheese, eggs, no life-saving drugs, such as insulin. These people have silently been at it for years, and we are only now just waking up. WAKE UP AMERICA, if you want to keep your right to own, produce and USE animals in your life.
I could not agree more with the comment above. The hsus are a bunch of crooks. When credible animal rights group wont take money from them there is something incredibly wrong with the situation. Please quit falling for the sad puppy face abd Wake up. Animal cruelty is like drugs if you have a problem in your town with it call those people out and dont let it go on.