AVMA Refuses to Partner with HSUS. ARA updates also.

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The organization representing more than 73,000 veterinarians across the country has dismissed plans to ally with the nation’s leading animal rights group.

 

According to the latest issue of DVM Magazine, the American Veterinary Medical Association’s (AVMA) Executive Board unanimously decided in April to scrap plans for a joint letter to Congress with the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).  The letter was intended to promote animal welfare issues, but the AVMA soon thought better than to get in bed with the anti’s.

 

The key deal breaker is the HSUS’ support of efforts to ban sow gestation stalls. Such a stance vexes many veterinarians.  The AVMA thus ended its partnership with the multi-million dollar lobbying group in response to concern from food animal counterparts, said Executive Board Chairman Dr. Bud Hertzog.

 

Hertzog admitted that he believes there will be issues the two organizations can work on, “but as far as having any joint statement, I don’t think that’s a possibility.”

 

HSUS President Wayne Pacelle, apparently bitter from the rejection, called the AVMA withdrawal “mind boggling.”  He conceded that “it doesn’t look like HSUS and AVMA will be working together in this capacity in the future.”

 

Tom Burkgren, executive director of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians added, “You can’t send a message to Congress showing unity with HSUS and then hold them at arm’s length on issues where we don’t agree.  You don’t want to send the message that HSUS has any role in policy-making at the AVMA.”

 

The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance supports the AVMA’s decision to refuse to be linked with the nation’s most powerful animal rights group.  The HSUS’  agenda includes efforts to ban animal use, including legal and regulated use of animals in agriculture, for research, and hunting and trapping.

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This is a big victory for us folks. If the AVMA had decided to align themselves with HSUS, that would be one huge lobbying organization with huge policy forming capabilities!

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Its a beautiful thing. How can we reinforce the positive behavior? Who can we write to thanking and encouraging them?

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They would be a good group to get on board in opposition to the WHA also. They have huge pull with veterinarians

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Here is what the ARA's are after, they want to decide what we eat. My question is, what are the politicians in Chicago smoking. They chase after the gun makers and now this! Click the link to see what is coming to Chicago, what's next?

 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208253,00.html

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PETA is gearing up for the Fall Anti-Leather Campaign. They plan at setting up at malls, schools and public places to hand out literature and talk to the back to school crowd about the "cruelty of leather". So heads up folks, they may be at a location near you.

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(Columbus) - The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance has filed a complaint with the U.S. Postmaster General in regards to the sale of postage stamps which support and raise money for an initiative to ban dove hunting in Michigan.

 

The organization is exploring whether or not is will pursue legal action in the matter.

 

The stamps which were available for purchase at  www.zazzle.com/JoyceJanicki  since March, have been removed from the website.

 

Each of the nine stamps featured images of mourning doves and the slogan “Protect Michigan Mourning Doves

 

According to a posting that appeared until today on the Zazzle website, “Any profit gained from the sale of these stamps will go towards protecting Michigan's ‘Official Bird of Peace’ the Mourning Dove.”  It is not known how much money the sale of the stamps may have raised to support the dove hunting ban.

 

In November of this year, Michigan citizens will vote on whether or not to continue dove hunting in their state.

 

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is the leading contributor to the Committee to Restore the Dove Shooting Ban, the organization which spearheaded the movement to have the dove hunting ban placed on the November ballot and to which the creator of the offensive stamps belongs.

 

Sale of customized postage stamps, which may feature everything from baby photos to advertising, began earlier this year after Congress amended an 1872 law that forbade advertisements on U.S. currency, including postage stamps. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) began a one year trial program allowing Zazzle and two other companies to sell the customized stamps.

 

In April, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) alerted sportsmen about this program when it was discovered that the HSUS was profiting from the sale of postage stamps featuring anti-animal use rhetoric.

 

The USSA was alerted to the Michigan dove issue stamps by members of the Washington State Bowhunters Association.

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(Detroit) - In a blatant attack on Michigan’s hunters and hunting heritage, the Detroit Zoo, an agency of the city of Detroit, is assisting the Michigan Humane Society by allowing them to hold a fund raiser at the zoo for the campaign to ban dove hunting in Michigan.

 

The event is scheduled to take place on September 16.  On the list of special guests at the event are Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Mike Markarian, executive vice president of the HSUS, the nation’s largest anti-hunting, animal rights organization.

 

Tickets for the event are advertised at $100 each and “all proceeds go directly to the [sic] help restore the dove shooting ban on mourning doves.”

 

Thousands of sportsmen who live in Detroit and whose tax money and private donations support the zoo are outraged by this abuse by a public agency.

 

The Detroit Zoo depends upon funds donated by both public and private entities for operation.

 

Sportsmen are urged to call on the city of Detroit, the state of Michigan and private donors such as Daimler Chrysler Corporation, Ford Motor Company, the General Motors Corporation and all who give to the Detroit Zoo to express their outrage at their support of an organization that uses public resources to take a side on such a contentious political issue.

 

Take Action!  Michigan sportsmen must contact the City of Detroit,their state legislators and the Detroit Zoo and explain to them that it is a outright attack on Michigan’s rich hunting heritage and a gross misuse of public resources for an agency of the City of Detroit to aid fundraising for anti-hunting efforts.

Letters should be sent to Ron Kagan, director of the Detroit Zoo at 8450 W. Ten Mile Rd., Royal Oak, MI 48068.  He can be reached by telephone at (248) 398-0900, ext. 3118 and by fax at (248) 398-0504.  Kwame Kilpatrick, the Mayor of Detroit can be contacted at Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, 2 Woodward Ave., Ste. 1126, Detroit, MI 48226 and by telephone at (313) 224-3400 and fax at (313) 224-4128.

Courtesy U.S. Sportsman Alliance