Real Animal Lovers Don't Support Murder of Animals

categories: Companion Animals, Farm Animals

Published September 16, 2009 @ 06:36AM PT

A site for online vet-tech schools Monday released a list of the "top 50 blogs for animal lovers."

As one might expect, the list featured two blogs from The Humane Society of the United States and one from the ASPCA.

Surprisingly, though, the compilation also consisted of animal-rights blogs, including this one -- Congratulations, Stephanie! -- and a category devoted to vegan blogs.

But curiously sites that support the murder of animals also made the list of "blogs for animal lovers." One is a blog devoted to agricultural law. The others are listed in the "Farm Animals" category.

"Farm Policy" keeps farmers, including those in animal agribusiness, apprised of happenings in Washington, D.C., and "Animal Welfare Approved" spreads the myth that animals can by humanely slaughtered. "Advocates for Agriculture" is written by a man who makes his living raising and killing cows. Troy Hadrick regularly criticizes animal-rights activists.

In a post Monday about a principal in Great Britain who wanted to kill Marcus, a sheep the students raised, Hadrick's response reveals how coldly he views animals.

Let's remember that the kids weren't going to have to witness the harvest of the animal, they just want to raffle off the meat to help fund their program. The success of life depends on death and when are [sic] kids are shielded from this law of nature, we do them a disservice.

I don't know the rationale for including these anti-animal sites in a list of blogs for animal lovers. Perhaps it's due to our society's split in how we treat dogs and cats versus how we treat cows, chickens and pigs.

Or maybe the choice of this vet-tech site is due to how the American Veterinary Medical Association, in particular, views animals. One would assume that the well-being of all animals would be the goal of the AVMA. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Indeed this group supports the confinement and slaughter of farmed animals.

Like the AVMA, the creators of the "top 50 blogs" list need to re-examine what it means to be an animal lover.

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Photo courtesy of animal lover Renee Dippel of Illinois. Here she hugs a sheep during a recent visit to Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y.

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There is no such thing as Humane slughter, animal welfare is a sham and a pack of lies, how can you improve the living standards of an animal that gets killed anyway, STOP the killing ALTOGETHER!

Posted by Soodle Billy on 09/16/2009 @ 06:57AM PT
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This comment by Hadricvk makes me see red "Let's remember that the kids weren't going to have to witness the harvest of the animal, they just want to raffle off the meat to help fund their program. The success of life depends on death and when are [sic] kids are shielded from this law of nature, we do them a disservice."

For "Harvest of the animal" read slaughter. What's with all this double speak, do kids know that "harvesting" is killing? And if they do know do they in fact care, the prime imoportance here seems to be to raffle off pieces of the poor creatures corpse to the highest bidders. What a lesson to teach, animals are there to nurture, oh yes but only for a while then we just kill them and dispose of their bodies in any way that suits us. They should be teaching children about vegetarianism and veganism, they'd be doing them a bigger service.

Posted by Barbara Bates on 09/16/2009 @ 09:37AM PT
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Great post Tracy! I would also like to say that besides the farm groups being listed as "animal lovers" but that endorse the slaughter of them, PeTA and the HSUS also support the killing of animals, as long as it's done "humanely". The HSUS also serves the cooked remains of certain animals at their fundraisers to raise awareness of other more popular animals like seals.

Posted by Daniel Wilson on 09/16/2009 @ 10:06AM PT
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Hey Daniel,

Do you know a specific event in which the HSUS served animal products at one of their fundraisers? They do have a vegan menu policy.

Posted by Animal Place on 09/16/2009 @ 03:18PM PT
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Hi Animal Place!

You can find Gary Francione's blog about the HSUS event (and be sure to check out the menu) that took place in July at:

http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/truth-love-and-liberty/#more-1782

It's also interesting to note that the HSUS boycott of Canadian seafood is only in effect "until the commercial seal hunt is ended for good"; then it's okay to go back to eating Canadian fish, lobsters and snow crabs.

I'm assuming the HSUS doesn't have a problem with people eating American seafood since it isn't linked to a commercial seal hunt.

Posted by Daniel Wilson on 09/16/2009 @ 06:58PM PT
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Thanks for the compliment, Daniel.

I do have to point out, though, that Francione's post does not say that animal products were served at that dinner. While the dinner was held at a non-vegan restaurant, he could not confirm that the menu for that particular event wasn't vegan.

Posted by Tracy Habenicht on 09/17/2009 @ 06:47AM PT
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That's true Tracey. But I think it's kind of strange that the Media Contact for the event didn't even know (or wouldn't say?) if the food served there was vegan and the co-sponsors of the event promote "humanely-raised" meat.

Posted by Daniel Wilson on 09/17/2009 @ 02:21PM PT
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Ughghg. It is one of my pet peeves when people call themselves 'animal lovers' and then EAT ANIMALS.

Posted by The Voracious Vegan . on 09/18/2009 @ 11:02AM PT
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Tracy Habenicht is an editor and animal-rights activist living in the Chicago area. Her blog "Digging Through the Dirt" seeks to dispel the myths surrounding animal rights, the environment and people's health.