Orphan cause was foundation of the animal advocacy movement (See also HSUS bails out of humane education; ASPCA & AHA already did.) SEATTLE, Washington––To see overt cruelty to animals––and humans––today, one need only go to Facebook or search on the Worldwide Web. No sort of cruelty or misery is far from view, despite the efforts of […]
HSUS bails out of humane education; ASPCA & AHA already did
A bear market for humane ed? (See also “We face a humane education crisis!” says HSUS historian Unti.) SEATTLE, Washington––The Humane Society of the United States on April 19, 2017 confirmed the long-rumored exit of the organization from humane education. After publication of the June/July 2017 edition, the Humane Society of the U.S. said in […]
The five muckrakes whose ideas built the Humane Society of the U.S.
How five journalists helped to shape the world’s largest animal charity (First of a 3-part series. See also Did Cleveland Amory write to Ann Landers? Yes! and Fierce critics Ann Cottrell Free & Henry Spira goaded HSUS to mature.) WASHINGTON D.C.––Celebrating the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the Humane Society of the U.S. […]
Humane classic: Ordeal of the Animals
by Mel Morse Prentice-Hall Inc., 1968. 212 pages, hardcover. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Wrote Humane Society of the U.S. senior policy advisor Bernard Unti in June 2011, “Mel Morse, the HSUS president in the years 1968-1970, wrote a book in 1968 entitled Ordeal of the Animals. It is a nice period piece,” Unti assessed, “a […]
Dogfight over HSI/HSUS dog rescues in South Korea
Did the dogs come from dog meat farms or from puppy millers, hoarders, & dogfighters? SEOUL, South Korea––Has Humane Society International thus far in 2015 bought out three South Korean breeders of dogs for meat, or several puppy millers breeding primarily for the pet trade, and/or unwittingly bought a dogfighter’s culls, and/or just bought some […]