ARIZONA ANIMAL ADVOCATES
Responsible Animal Owners Opposing Anti-Animal Legislation
QUICK FACT:
PETA does NOT meet the ethical standards to be recommended by NCIB. The NCIB (National Charities Information Bureau) is an excellent resource for information about ethical charitable giving. Web site is www.give.org.
QUICK FACT:
Animal Rights advocates do not distinguish between human beings and animals.
Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PeTA, "A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals."
Michael Fox of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has said, "The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect."
QUICK QUOTE:
"We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants."
-- Ingrid Newkirk, President, PeTA, The Virginian-Pilot, July 20, 2005
QUICK QUOTE:
"To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse."
-- Neal Barnard, Medical Advisor, PeTA, from Bernard's book, Food For Life
QUICK QUOTES:
"Until your daddy learns that it's not 'fun' to kill, keep your doggies and kitties away from him. He's so hooked on killing defenseless animals that they could be next!"
PeTA flyer targeting children, (Asbury Park Press, September 23, 2005)
"Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause." -- Alex Pacheco, Director, PeTA
"We're looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law." -- Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder and president, Insight on the News July 17, 2000
"We have found that civil disobedience and direct action has been powerful in generating massive attention in our communities... and has been very effective in traumatizing our targets." -- John P. Goodwin, Committee to Abolish the Fur Trade, National Animal Rights Convention '97, June 27, 1997, now employed by the Humane Society of the United States
"Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues." -- Paul Watson, Sierra Club Board member, Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Greenpeace, NY Times, March 16, 2004
HB 2516 - MANDATORY SPAY/NEUTER LEGISLATION
Understanding the Proposed Legislation in HB2516
- Discussion by Marcia Barry
MSN Laws Fail Across America
Pamphlet handout
Animal Welfare or Animal Rights?
AB 1634 - the Real Story on Lloyd Levine's own website
LINKS
NorthEast Animal Shelter
Rescuing Animals thoughout the US and Puerto Rico
NOTE: Not enough dogs due to voluntary spay/neuter, NEAS shops thoughout the US to find dogs to fill the need for adoptable dogs. They also appear to have an outstanding program for adoption. USAToday reports adoption fees of $295 for a dog.
Helen Woodward Animal Sanctuary
A vision in what's possible through love and caring as opposed to Mandatory Laws with non-compliance.
Pet-Law, learn how to protect YOUR rights
American Canine Foundation Law
Concerned Dog Owners of California
Pet Under-Population: The Pet Shortage in the U.S. by Loretta Baughan, The Spaniel Journal
Petition: Protect Property Rights In Animals - Petition: Protect Property Rights in Animals (to Congress - requesting fed legislation to ensure no city, county or state prohibit ownership rights)
National Animal Interest Alliance
PetPAC: Protecting the Rights of Pets and Owners : Bill Hembly, CA Lobbyist opposing AB1634
PetPAC: Petition opposing AB1634 (Mandatory Spay/Neuter in CA)
No Kill Bill (Property Rights)
The Dark Side of Mandatory Licensing and Neuter Laws
BestFriends Nathan Winograd on PETA
Peta's 2006 "Online Animal Reporting Form", Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Received animals: 9,637
Reclaimed by owner: 6,575
Euthanized by Peta: 2,981
Placed by Peta: 81
PeTA's on Pitt Bulls (and every dog) "Brian's Law"
ARTICLES
A Thousand Sankes In The Grass
SUCCESSFUL NO KILL SHELTERS
(Communities without MSN Legislation)
Tompkins County SPCA, NY
A no kill community.
Charlottesville, VA
A no kill community
Washoe County, NV
A no kill community for dogs and working toward no kill for cats. They kill 9% of dogs and 25% of cats.
“Much of what occurs in shelters is so bizarre that it almost defies comprehension, much less vivid description.” ~ Edward Duvin
It couldn’t happen here?
It is happening here. PETA is happening here.
As the human advocacy group Putting People First said in court records about PETA: "In their eyes, those who do not share their philosophy
- animal trainers, hunters, fishermen, cattlemen, grocers, and indeed all non-vegetarians
- are the moral equivalent of cannibals, slaveowners, and death-camp guards, and must be dealt with accordingly."
Outlaw Pets and only outlaws will have Pets
Welcome to California
- No Pets Allowed
Welcome to Arizona - No Pets Allowed
Mandatory spay/neuter of dogs does not stop feral cats from breeding
Support Voluntary spay/neuter
If you are feeding a stray cat, have her altered
"If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course, we're going to be blowing things up and smashing windows. For the record, I don't do this stuff, but I advocate it. I think it's a great way to bring about animal liberation, considering the level of suffering, the atrocities." -- Bruce Friedrich, PeTA's director of Vegan Outreach, Animal Rights Conference, 2001
"Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works." -- Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA's founder and president, US News and World Report, April 8, 2002
"If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too." -- Gary Yourofsky, founder of Animals Deserve Adequate Protection Today and Tomorrow (ADAPTT), now employed as PeTA's national lecturer
"We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals." -- Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd ed. (New York Review of Books, 1990), Preface, p. ii. On Forming Political Alliances
"I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation." -- Jerry Vlasak, spokesmen for the Animal Defense League, from a BBC interview
"Lastly, anyone who believes in the possibility of total animal liberation while billions of humans continue to inhabit and decimate the planet is delusional. Only when most humans have died off will there be a chance to returning to a society that values all beings for who they are." -- Jerry Vlasak, spokesmen for the Animal Defense League, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and the North American Animal Liberation Press Office
"If they won't stop when you ask them nicely, they don't stop when you demonstrate to them what they're doing is wrong, then they should be stopped using whatever means are necessary." --Jerry Vlasak, ALF spokesman, In the 60 Minutes interview with Ed Bradley, aired on CBS on Sunday November 13, 2005
"We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States... We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped in California. Then we will take it state by state." -- Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP Humane Society of the US (HSUS), formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals, Full Cry Magazine, October 1, 1990
"We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture." -- Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP Humane Society of the US, formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals, at the Animal Rights 2002" Convention, July 1, 2002
- Last Updated:
3/22/08