I guess Markanian thinks Pacelle was lying when he stated that HSUS is out to cause the extinction of all animal domestication in one generation. Now they are pretending that isn't their goal.


H.R.503
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain conduct
relating to the use of horses for human consumption.

Introduced: January 13, 2009
Status: Introduced
Next step: Voted on by House
Latest action: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Sponsor: Rep. John Conyers [D, MI-14]

To view the entire bill, visit here:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h503/show
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Americans Against Horse Slaughter (Blog)
FARMERS AND RANCHERS TARGET THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES
By Steven Long (Horseback Magazine)
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
http://louisiana-aahsbloggingupdates.blogspot.com/2009/02/farmers-and-ranchers-target-humane.html

HOUSTON, (c) - The nation's largest animal welfare organization has
for the first time gone on the record to counter claims that it wants
to end the slaughter of food animals.

Michael Markarian, executive vice president of Washington based Humane
Society of the United States, emphatically countered the charge
frequently made by agriculture groups that it wants nothing less than
to end the slaughter of any animal for food, not just horses.
Asked Tuesday if HSUS is targeting the food animal industry for
abolition Markarian was quick to respond.

"The answer is no," he told Horseback Magazine through a spokeswoman.
"That is not our goal."

Agriculture groups from across the nation have zeroed in on HSUS as
the bogy man in their war with animal welfare activists over horse
slaughter. They say that the ultimate goal of the Society is to
eliminate the killing of all food animals including cattle, sheep,
goats, and swine.

"They have a simple goal, and that is to eliminate animal agriculture
in this country," said South Dakota Rancher Troy Hadrick in a story in
Tuesday's Rapid City Journal.

Such talk is sweeping the nation. Agriculture interests will soon take
their battle to Congress and to state legislatures as legislation to
end horse slaughter forever is brought up for debate and a vote. In
meeting after meeting, both large and small, farmers and ranchers are
pointed to the Humane Society by industry leaders as the group most
well funded and determined to end their livelihood and way of life.
The result has been an emotional upheaval against the group coming
from across rural America. In the current Texas legislative session a
fierce battle is expected over the issue. It will pit recreational
horse owners and animal rescue operators against breeders, ranchers,
and much of the horse industry itself. Polling has consistently shown
that an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the slaughter of
horses.

The industry is well funded and able to tap the deep pockets of the
Farm Bureau, Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raiser's Association, AQHA
and others who have a vested interest in being able to recoup the
costs of raising a horse with little market value. Selling a horse for
slaughter enables a breeder to recover at least part of his costs for
breeding a seemingly unwanted horse. In short, it's all about money
and the ability to recover the investment made to breed the animal.
The battle could well be waged in multiple states all at once, as well
as in Congress. Animal rights activists counter that there are no
unwanted horses and most animals culled from breeding programs may be
placed with the public if only given the chance. They say that it is a
myth that old, frail, and ill horses are sold for slaughter as the
slaughter advocates frequently claim. They say it's all about meat on
the hoof, and there isn't much meat on a starving horse.

Yet the agriculture industry is fiercely determined to bring back
slaughter plants that were outlawed and closed in Texas and Illinois
during the past two years.

In fact, a bill has already been filed in South Dakota that would
provide funding for a study to establish a horse slaughter industry in
that state. Currently, there is no legal horse slaughter facility
operating in the United States, although horses are shipped to Canada
and Mexico to supply markets in Europe and Japan.

While the Humane Society has now gone on record saying it will not
target animal agriculture for elimination, that doesn't mean it has
embraced it either.

"Most animals raised for meat, eggs, and dairy products today suffer
immensely on factory farms," said HSUS spokeswoman Heather Sullivan.
"They are confined by the tens of thousands in warehouses where many
of their natural instincts are frustrated and are generally treated
like mere commodities as opposed to living, feeling individuals."
Sullivan said the organization welcomes animal lovers of all dietary
persuasions, from vegans to confirmed carnivores.

"The Humane Society of the United States is a big tent organization --
we're comprised of vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. In fact, the
vast majority of our members are not vegetarians," she said.

"We accept the fact that most Americans eat animals and we support
efforts by individuals, corporations, voters and lawmakers (and what
they) can do to help reduce the suffering of these animals. At the
same time, while most Americans eat animals, they do not want to see
them treated inhumanely. The industry can only be expected to go so
far as the public wants it to go, and many standard industry practices
today are clearly out of step with the sentiments of most Americans.
This is where HSUS focuses the bulk of our farm animal resources.
While HSUS is not officially opposed to meat eating, it clearly isn't
promoting it either, and in fact promotes alternatives.

"We support a variety of reasonable efforts to help reduce animal
suffering. If consumers want to avoid eating animals, we'll provide
them with the information they need to make that decision," Sullivan
said. "If they want to reduce the number of animals they eat, we'll
give them recipes and other useful information. And if they want to
avoid products that cause the most animal suffering (e.g., switching
from battery cage eggs to cage-free eggs), we applaud that too, and
give them the info they need on where they can find those products.
This is the range of motion for the bulk of the American public, and
we are comfortable working in all of these ways."



Here is what HSUS head honcho Wayne Pacelle stated as his goal with regards to ALL DOMESTIC ANIMALS.


"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, May, 1993)


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