If you're on any of the many e-mail lists maintained by the Humane Society of the United States, you probably saw a desperate plea for money last night from HSUS president Wayne Pacelle. There's nothing unusual about that -- HSUS sits up and begs for dollars countless times each year. But what made this piece unusual was that it consisted almost entirely of ridiculous attacks on the Center for Consumer Freedom. Go ahead and look. We want you to read it. It's one of the best examples we've seen of the kind of scorched-earth politics this so-called "humane society" practices.
read more here »HSUS: Animal-Welfare Fool’s Gold (Monday, 2/8/2010)
It’s a new week, and the uproar over a new corporate “partner” of the deceptive Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) still hasn’t cooled off. If you missed the scandal last week, the company that produces Yellow Tail brand wines announced that it pledged $100,000 to HSUS. Big mistake.
read more here »PETA Behaving Badly (Thursday, 2/4/2010)
Another organization has caved to PETA pressure because of a mistaken belief that the radical group really cares about animals. The Neumann University Alumni Association says it will stop distributing discounted tickets to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in response to PETA’s latest protest. The alumni association was offering discounted admission to the February 27 show in Philadelphia.
read more here »Fishy Trade Maneuvers (Wednesday, 2/3/2010)
Trade wars? Catfish? Vietnam? These are all things we don’t normally talk about, but today they all meet. Trust us. It’s interesting. The domestic catfish industry (largely located along the Mississippi Delta) is trying to put up new obstacles to its Vietnamese competitors by lobbying the U.S. Department of Agriculture to classify a popular imported fish—called pangasius—as “catfish.” The catch? The same producers fought hard to keep this Vietnamese fish from being called “catfish” for many years.
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