Jun 29 2010
Humane Bites #92: HSUS’s Partner in Politics?

Daily clippings culled from all over the electronic news world. (E-mail submissions for tomorrow.)
- The ASPCA is sending e-mails asking members to support HSUS's Ohio ballot initiative
- Dog blogger challenges HSUS to give $60,000 to $100,000 by September 1 to keep no-kill shelter in North Carolina running
- HSUS’s paid “volunteers” not allowing signers to read actual ballot language in Ohio
- A Eugene "Examiner" takes a hard look at HSUS
- Some North Carolina dog breeders are not amused by HSUS's Washington lobbying routine
- Wesley Smith: “The animal rights argument isn’t about cages, crates or other methods of animal housing, it’s an agenda that means no domesticated animals for any purpose.”
- Your Daily Shelter: Nebraska’s Platte Valley Humane Society (Donate. Volunteer. Adopt.)
Comments
If it is true that signature gatherers are not allowing petition signers the ability to read the ballot language, does this invalidate the effort and/or the signature? It would seem to me that there has to be some legal guidance on how petition signatures are gathered and that one “rule” in that process would be to allow any person to read the language of the petition before signing.
You have to wonder if the actual ballot petition has different language than what is being publicly presented by the groups collecting the signatures. Could this be an effort to slip different language onto the ballot than what we have been told is being presented?
So what happens when people are not allowed to read the petition? Who governs the petition signature process to make sure the legal process is being followed correctly?
It is so very frustrating to me that people have these beliefs that farm animals are suffering. I grew up on a turkey farm and now am married to a dairy farmer. There has never been a single instance in my entire life that I have seen an animal being abused or suffering because of their living conditions. People need to get a REAL clue!
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Wesley, how WRONG you are! I have been working with the campaign. We are all there to try to help alleviate the suffering of the farm animals. Any human being who could condone the cruel confinement of veal production is either misinformed about the way it is made, or is as sick and twisted as the farmers who make it!