Wayne Pacelle
Wayne Pacelle
Wayne Pacelleis the President and Chief Executive Officerof the Humane Society of the United States. Pacelle took office June 1, 2004, after serving for nearly 10 years as the organization's chief lobbyist and spokesperson. Since becoming CEO, he has sought to expand the organization's membership base and its influence on public policy...
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We were on the ground Tuesday, the day after the hurricane hit, but we were excluded from going in by state and federal authorities for the first several days. We've received 2,000 e-mails and phone calls from people who evacuated from New Orleans, who left animals in their homes and are pleading with us to rescue them. That's just in New Orleans. It doesn't count surrounding areas.
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We don't believe that agriculture should be reduced entirely to matters of economics and efficiency. When you're dealing with living creatures, there are ethical questions that ultimately must be confronted.
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People were staying because they wouldn't leave their animals.
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Puppy mills create misery for dogs and pain for the unwitting purchasers of the animals, and they indirectly deny suitable homes for animals in need. There are millions of healthy, adoptable animals available from shelters and breed rescue organizations.
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The scale of this takes your breath away, it buckles your knees,
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They simply misjudged how long they'd be gone. They left food for a couple of days, and now of course, people won't be able to enter for months.
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There were millions of Americans focused on animal welfare issues in the wake of the disaster, and we also know the bungled federal response to the animal crisis undermined the effectiveness of the human rescue mission.
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Animals are trapped by the thousands in their homes, and the clock is ticking.
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We ship 300 out in a day and get 400 in.
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There are thousands of cases of people who stayed, and they're at risk because of federal and state policy. We're troubled emotionally by the failures.
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We need the federal government to say that, when it doesn't conflict with human needs, federal responders can rescue animals and cooperate
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We can point to some success here, but there are many more failures.
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Cheney has a real history of questionable hunting behavior. He is apparently obsessed with hunting and is a regular patron of canned hunts. We don't like to see the Vice President of the U.S. providing pretty explicit endorsement of this practice, because canned hunting violates all the rhetoric that hunters use to justify themselves. Hunting is supposed to involve a fair chase with the animal having an opportunity to evade the hunter. But this eliminates the possibility of failure.
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You think you're getting the best of the best. What you're getting is oftentimes a very sick animal with genetic defects who came from a puppy mill.