Got kids? Care about our hunting rights and the future of our sport? Sick and tired of the $#!T espoused by those who would value animals and humans the same? PLEASE READ ON!!!
General Mills, maker of a variety of breakfast cereals, is promoting the nation’s largest animal rights organization by distributing free calendars in specially marked boxes of Golden Grahams cereal.
The “Pets and Their Celebrities” 2002 calendars feature information from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and its Kids in Nature’s Defense (KIND) News. It includes photos of a number of celebrities and their pets, including Christina Applegate, David Alan Grier and Brendan Fraser.
KIND News is a classroom newspaper the HSUS uses to spread its animal rights message to children. Produced by the National Association for Humane and Environmental Education, a youth education division of the HSUS, this newspaper is printed monthly and is read by more than 1.2 million school children, grades K-6.
“General Mills has made a tremendous mistake in its support of the Humane Society of the United States,” said WLFA President Bud Pidgeon. “In this partnership, General Mills and Golden Grahams cereal are promoting an organization that is determined to eliminate the American traditions of hunting, fishing, trapping, animal agriculture and other animal use.”
General Mills is not alone in their misunderstanding of the nation’s largest animal rights group.
“The HSUS has millions of people fooled into thinking it is raising money to save dogs and cats that are stranded in local shelters,” said Pidgeon. “The truth is HSUS does not operate or oversee any animal shelters. In fact, the organization spent less that one percent of its 1999 income of $67 million on grants to wildlife, animal habitat and dog and cat shelters.”
Take Action! Sportsmen should contact General Mills to express their extreme displeasure of its support for the Humane Society of the United States.
Contact:
Stephen W. Sanger,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Mills
P.O. Box 1113
Minneapolis, MN, 55440
or call him at (763) 764-7600.
General Mills Online Feedback:
http://www.generalmills.com/corporate/comments/
And call:
1-(800) 328-1144
And write:
General Mills, Inc.
P.O. Box 1113
Minneapolis, MN 55440
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Quotes of interest from the heads of the HSUS:
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS):
Wayne Pacelle, Senior Vice-President
"We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding. ... One generation and out. We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding." - (Quoted in Animal People, May, 1993)
Michael Fox, Vice-President
(Expressing opposition to use of bug sprays) "Only a few of the million you kill would have bitten you." - (In "Returning to Eden", Fox publication)
"Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development." - (Speech "A Vision Shared: What We Are Fighting For," to the World Congress for Animals, Washington, D.C., June 20, 1996)
"We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals." - (Washingtonian Magazine, February 1990)
"The life of an ant and that of my child should be granted equal consideration." - (In Inhumane Society, 1990)
"The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect." - (The Associated Press, Jan. 15, 1989)
"Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage." - (Newsweek interview, 1988)
Come on now, lets let 'em know how we feel about this CRAP!!
Peace, WildHawg.
Attention Hunters...This is important!!!!!
RichH
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