NRA and Farm Bureau Protest Anti-Cruelty Statute for Puppy Mills

Why would anyone in their right state of mind protest ANTI-CRUELTY rules? 

Non related [NRA] to this bill, I can’t understand why anyone [NRA] would want to hunt another creature when it is cages.  What kind of sportsmanship is that?  Not very intelligent!  Maybe others should be caged?   Has anyone learned about respect?  Perhaps that is why this country has the largest prison population among other nations?

Why would the Farm Bureau oppose a modest anti-cruelty provisions of this bill?  Again, why are we teaching our children that cruelty is okay?   We should be teaching them that cruelty isn’t okay, then maybe our prisons population will grow smaller. Does it make it better when you just turn your head at that cruelty?  “Out of site, Out of mind” makes cruelty okay?

I read a short twitter; and the guy was calling Obama “immoral” because Chrysler is filing for bankruptcy.  First, Chrysler is filing for bankruptcy because the deal with the banks fell through, and that isn’t Obama’s fault.  He called him “immoral”, but why is that considered immoral, and these same kinds of people will allow for cruelty to take place in this country.

Seems like animal cruelty is more immoral than Chrysler filling for bankruptcy!  

Why Must Puppy Mill Regulations Raise Hackles? – Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation

Why Must Puppy Mill Regulations Raise Hackles?

It was a breakthrough year on the puppy mill issue in 2008. The HSUS conducted a series of major investigations into all facets of the puppy mill issue and we raided mills throughout the country, and even three in Canada. We passed legislation to ban the import of dogs from foreign puppy mills with an amendment on the federal Farm Bill. The HSUS worked with other groups to pass legislation in Pennsylvania—“the puppy mill capital of the East”—to crack down on the thousands of operations there, and we made legislative gains in Louisiana and Virginia as well. We launched our Petland campaign asking the company—the largest retailer of dogs from puppy mills—to halt its sales of the victims of mills, and activists targeted other pet stores across the country with demonstrations. And Oprah Winfrey devoted a full show to the issue, and did a series of follow ups.

All of that was a prelude to this year’s surge of activism on the issue. We are soon to introduce federal legislation, the Puppy Uniform Protection Statute (PUPS), or “Baby’s Bill,” named after an elderly dog rescued by animal advocate Jana Kohl. We helped craft a class action lawsuit against Petland (and this weekend we have our third nationwide Petland demonstrations). And in 2009 state legislation sessions, The HSUS worked to introduce anti-puppy mill bills in more than 30 states. Just last week, legislation was signed into law in Washington state.

These bills should have been met with universal approval from any individuals or groups concerned about the decent care of animals. But remarkably, some breeders—driven by a false paranoia about onerous regulations (which would not even apply to them)—have worked vociferously against the bills in a few states. Oddly enough, they joined with groups like the NRA and the Farm Bureau in opposing modest anti-cruelty provisions in Indiana, North Carolina, and a few other states. The NRA doesn’t like our efforts to ban canned hunts, and the Farm Bureau doesn’t like our efforts to restrict gestation crates and other forms of intensive confinement, and they’re just being petulant in opposing the puppy mill legislation.  [read more]

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“The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the
way it’s animals are treated.” – Gandhi