This is also on the Huntersagainstpeta.com, about the HSUS:
The Humane Society of the United States
They currently have 10.6 million members worldwide making them the largest anti hunting group in the world. They?re worth more than $120 million dollars. They take in annually around $65 million dollars every year from donations and use a large chunk of that money aimed at stopping hunting. The Humane Society also strongly supports wolves being protected and kept on the endangered species list.
?If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.? ? (Wayne Pacelle ? President of HSUS), as quoted by the Associated Press in Impassioned Agitator, December 30, 1991.
?Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as ##### fighting and dog fighting.? ? Wayne Pacelle, as quoted in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, October 8, 1991.
?Sport hunting?the killing of wild animals as recreation?is fundamentally at odds with the values of a humane, just and caring society.? ? HSUS Website 2003.
Pacelle has been associated with 26 successful statewide ballot measure initiatives to protect wild animals, including measures to prohibit mourning dove hunting.
Wayne Pacelle ? ?We did a lot of field protests against hunting where we would walk with hunters and talk with them about hunting. And in the process they were seldom able to make a kill (the distraction and six people tromping with a hunter scared away the animals). We also challenged the constitutionality of state hunter harassment laws.? ? 1998 interview with Pacelle by Erik Marcus published on
www.vegan.com.
Even Merritt Clifton, publisher of ?Animal People?, a newsletter written by animal rightists for animal rightists, singled out HSUS as well for appearing to be something it is not. In December?s 11th annual report on fundraising, under the heading ?How they fool the world?, he writes:
?The Humane Society of the U.S., for instance, is not and never has been a collective voice for all, most, or any other humane societies. Neither does it shelter animals, adopt out animals, neuter animals, or share funding with local humane societies. In fact, HSUS is an advocacy organization representing just itself.?