CCF Labels HSUS "Terrorists" in New York Times

categories: Activism and Actions, Green Scare

Published December 11, 2008 @ 08:53AM PT

Unbelievable. Go read the post "Full-page New York Times Ad Calls Humane Society 'Terrorists'" at Green Is the New Red.

A full-page ad in today’s The New York Times accuses the Humane Society of “helping an animal rights terrorism group.”

The ad was bought by the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a front group that represents the fast food, meat and dairy industries. You might remember CCF from when they attacked Mothers Against Drunk Driving (yep, they represent big alcohol, too).

Here’s the gist of the ad: a Humane Society vice president is speaking at a holiday event sponsored by the Humane League. CCF says the Humane League has members from a group “Hugs for Puppies,” and Hugs for Puppies had members from SHAC Philly, and SHAC Philly had members from SHAC USA, and six members of SHAC USA were convicted on “animal enterprise terrorism” charges for running a controversial website.

Whew. Got that?

If not, don’t worry… the ad has a flow chart!

There's much more to the post. Go read it.

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Here's a great post from Vegan Soapbox about CCF:

http://www.vegansoapbox.com/httpwwwpetakillsanimalscom-and-the-ccf/

Posted by Alex Melonas on 12/16/2008 @ 05:07AM PT
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Wayne Pacelle posted a retort:
http://hsus.typepad.com/wayne/2008/12/ccf-nonviolence.html

Posted by Lisa Smolen on 12/16/2008 @ 09:32PM PT
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As I have alluded to elsewhere on this site, there are people who have drunk the CCF Kool Aid. A show-dog breeding priest that I've corresponded to (and had to chastise for calling other church members of my kind "extremists") gave me some resources to back up his positions about this and that. They were from some supposed "animal welfare" (animal use) group that labelled both HSUS and Best Friends as "extremist organizations" on their website. I had to preach to him a bit, and said that that accusation alone made his source totally "incredible" (not credible). It did my soul good.
OK, I posted this first, without reading any of the linked sites. I'll do that now.

Posted by Sue G. on 12/17/2008 @ 07:06PM PT
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Off topic, and a few months late, I came across something, and wondered if anyone still reading knows what's up with the Weston A. Price Foundation. Is that like a UK version of the CCF? (They actually remind me more of NAIA, who the dog breeders seem to be aligned with.) I'm posting it here, because I did a search on this blog for "CCF + terrorist".

I was Googling for information on veganic farming.Here's a good overview of what it is, and what kind of fertilizers are used: http://www.thevegetariansite.com/env_veganorganic.htm

Here's what some writer from the Weston A. Price Foundation has to say about "vegetarian terrorists", which is so off-base that I'm sending it just as a contrast to what veganic farming really is about. http://www.westonaprice.org/farming/wasteland.html
What he didn't seem to get is that it is simply organic farming without using animal byproducts as fertilizer.

Posted by Sue G. on 03/22/2009 @ 08:32PM PT
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Stephanie is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull.