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'd advise him to pursue a less violent form of relaxation and get on with the important business of leading the country.
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The scale of this takes your breath away, it buckles your knees,
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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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We want a policy that says the federal and state and local responders should actively assist in animal rescue.
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Most ethical hunters see that as an objectionable way to act. This is not hunting, it is an open-air abattoir (slaughterhouse).
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We can point to some success here, but there are many more failures.
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I think (the storms) have crystallized this issue for the public.
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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 aren't big enough to handle the magnitude of this crisis.
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The animals we are finding now are emaciated and sick and lonely, but we are still finding them alive.
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Given the industry's reliance on trucks as the primary means of transporting farm animals, the USDA's failure to apply the Twenty-Eight Hour Law to trucks renders the act virtually useless, ... Transporting farm animals for 28 or more hours without rest, food, or water is clearly inhumane, and the USDA's failure to place any time limit whatsoever on truck transport is indefensible. If the USDA doesn't understand the definition of 'truck,' we would be happy to send over a dictionary.
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People were staying because they wouldn't leave their animals.
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I can't for the life of me see any issue here.
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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.