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c.. the Conservation Endowment Fund in California;s.. Humane Society International Australian Office Inc.;t.. Humane Society International of Latin America;u.. Humane Society of the United States (DE);v.. Humane Society of the United States (MD);w.. Humane Society of the United States (MT);x.. Humane Society of the United States (PA);y.. Humane Society of the United States (VT);z.. Humane Society of the United States California Branch Inc. (CA);aa.. Humane Society of the United States New Jersey Branch Inc. (NJ);ab.. Humane Society of the United States Wildlife Land Trust (DC);ac.. Humane Society of the United States Wildlife Land Trust (KS);ad.. Humane Society of the United States Wildlife Land Trust (OK);ae.. Humane Society of the United States Utah State Branch (UT);af.. Humane Society University (DC);ag.. Institute for the Study of Animal Problems (DC);ah.. Interfaith Council for the Protection of Animals and Nature (GA);ai.. International Society for the Protection of Animals (UK);aj.. International Wilderness Leadership Wild Foundation Inc. [d/b/a TheWILD Foundation] (CA);ak.. Kindness Club International Inc. (DC);al.. Meadowcreek Project Inc. (AR); 201

am.. Meadowcreek Inc. (AR);an.. National Association for Humane and Environmental Education(DC);ao.. National Humane Education Center (VA);ap.. Species Survival Network (MI);aq.. Valerie Sheppard Humane Society University (DC);ar.. Wildlife Rehabilitation Training Center (MA);as.. World Federation for the Protection of Animals Inc. (DC);at.. World Society for the Protection of Animals (DC);au.. World Society for the Protection of Animals (IA);av.. World Society for the Protection of Animals (ND);aw.. World Society for the Protection of Animals (VT);ax.. World Society for the Protection of Animals - Canada;ay.. World Society for the Protection of Animals - Deutschland;az.. World Society for the Protection of Animals International (UK);ba.. World Society for the Protection of Animals UK (UK); andbb.. Worldwide Network Inc. (DC).For-profit affiliates:a.. The Humane Catalog (VA);b.. Humane Equity Fund [defunct] (DC);c.. Humane Society Press (DC);d.. Humane Society of the United States Connecticut Branch Inc. (CT);202

e.. Humane Society of the United States Virginia Branch Inc. (VA);f.. World Society for the Protection of Animals (MA);g.. World Society for the Protection of Animals - Australia;h.. World Society for the Protection of Animals Executor Services (UK);i.. World Society for the Protection of Animals Trading Company (UK).When John Hoyt took over its presidency in 1970, the Humane Societyof the United States had 30,000 members and an annual budget ofabout $500,000 By 1994, HSUS's annual revenue had grown to $22million. In 2003, that number jumped to $123 million, including nearly$3 million in investment income.At the end of 2003, the nonprofit HSUS declared assets totaling over$113 million, including almost $16 million in cash and over $80 millioninvested in securities. It pays over $11.8 million in annual salaries, andanother $3 million in employee benefits and pension contributions.When HSUS merged with the Fund For Animals in 2004, the groupannounced that its 2005 operating budget would be $95 million.Raising money is Job One. HSUS will even adopt conflicting positions inorder to satisfy individual patrons. Two HSUS donors once wrote to JohnHoyt with very different views of the sinking of Icelandic whaling shipsby Paul Watson's violent Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the late1980s. In one response, Hoyt agreed with the donor that Watson'sactions were wrong, writing: \"I am unequivocally opposed to any and allacts of violence in the pursuit of efforts to protect animals from abuseand suffering\" In the other, he declared that Sea Shepherd's work was\"indeed, a daring and masterful bit of James Bond on behalf of the greatwhales.\"HSUS recently joined the lucrative third-party certification business.Some environmental and animal-rights groups have developed \"eco-labels,\" offered (for a price) by sponsoring organizations to certify food 203

and clothing as environmentally friendly. HSUS is a founding member ofthe Humane Farm Animal Care coalition. For the right amount ofmoney, its \"Certified Humane Raised & Handled\" label is available tomeat, poultry, eggs, and dairy producers.Animal-Rights IdeologyOf course, money isn't the only thing behind HSUS's work. Animal-rightsphilosophy also plays a role. Despite HSUS's public claims that it seeksonly to ensure animals are humanely treated, the group's values appeartilted toward eliminating humans' use of animals entirely.HSUS wants to end, for example, lifesaving biomedical research onanimals \"Absolutely horrifying\" is how John Hoyt characterized suchresearch. \"We have to fight the well-financed and powerful agribusinessand research industries,\" he wrote in a fundraising letter to HSUSmembers, referring to \"the needless and repetitive experimentation onanimals in the 'research' laboratory.\"Former HSUS board member Robert F. Welborn declared in HSUS News:\"I question the moral propriety of causing animals to suffer for thepurpose of testing products intended for humans or for dealing withhuman maladies.\" HSUS mailings have called on the government \"toeliminate altogether the use of animals as research subjects.\"HSUS stands with PETA in opposing xenotransplantation (the use ofanimal organs to replace diseased human organs), including the baboonbone marrow received by noted AIDS activist Jeff Getty. MartinStephens, HSUS's vice president for animal research issues, told Reuters:\"The HSUS admires Mr. Getty's will to live but we believe that hisexperiment is misguided. The HSUS believes that baboons . should notbe killed for such highly questionable experiments.\"HSUS joined PETA in trying to block a NASA project that used animals tostudy weightlessness in space. And in 2005 HSUS joined Farm Sanctuaryin its misguided attempts to ban the production of veal and foie gras(duck liver pat) in several states.204

While PETA loudly protests the use of live animals in circuses, HSUSworks its lobbying magic and moves the levers of power behind thescenes. The group has filed several formal complaints with the USDA,charging circuses and their animal suppliers with a wide range ofanimal-welfare violations. HSUS's Director of Captive Wildlife Protectiontold The Baltimore Sun in 2004 that the approach is bearing fruit: \"I dothink what we're seeing with the circuses is that they're deciding thatit's not worth taking the heat.\" In 2005 HSUS endorsed a legislativeattempt to bar circuses from bringing performing animals intoMassachusetts.HSUS is not particularly friendly toward the use of animals as food,either. In 1995, it launched its \"Eating with a Conscience\" campaign,directed by Howard Lyman. A strict vegan, Lyman is best known for his1996 appearance on the \"Oprah\" television show, where he tried toscare consumers away from beef by claiming, incorrectly and recklessly,that mad cow disease would make AIDS \"look like the common cold.\" Ina June 2005 interview, Pacelle said that HSUS is working on \"a guide tovegetarian eating\" and emphasized \"reducing meat consumption\" asone of HSUS's goals.And with the vegan Wayne Pacelle as its newest chief executive, HSUSappears to be embracing PETA-style orthodoxy about meat and dairyfoods, leather shoes, wool suits, and even silk ties with its \"no animalproducts in the workplace\" policy.HSUS and its affiliates have received embarrassingly low scores fromestablished charity watchdog groups. Worth magazine gave HSUS a \"D\"rating for spending as much as 53 percent of its expenses onfundraising. And online rating service Give.org noted that the hugeHSUS corporate family does not have an active governing boardoverseeing the overall structure, and criticized the organization forholding only three board meetings during 2000, two of them on thesame day. Charity Navigator gave only one star (out of four) to HSUS'sEarth Voice International, and zero to the Humane Society of the UnitedStates Wildlife Land Trust. 205

Hiring the Animal Liberation FrontEven seasoned animal-rights veterans were surprised in April 2000when the Humane Society of the United States sent John \"J.P.\" Goodwinon an anti-fur junket to China. Goodwin was not just any animal activist:he was then an avowed member of the terrorist Animal Liberation Front(ALF). Less than a year later he was formally identified as an HSUSlegislative affairs staffer; Goodwin would later change his rhetoric tomatch HSUS's corporate policy of not endorsing violence as a protesttactic.Goodwin, a high-school dropout who had previously co-founded theTexas-based Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade, pulled no punches whenit came to his priorities. \"My goal is the abolition of all animalagriculture,\" he had written to one Internet activist mailing list.Goodwin himself has been arrested and convicted for being theringleader of a gang that vandalized fur retailers in multiple statesduring the 1990s. The animal-rights newspaper Animal People Newsprofiled Goodwin in 2000, noting that he \"gleefully announced a stringof Animal Liberation Front mink releases and arsons against furriers andfur farms\" while a \"spokesman\" for the underground terrorist group.Goodwin also fielded press inquiries after a Petaluma, California,slaughterhouse arson in February 1997, and shocked the public with hiscomments on the March 1997 arson at a farmer's feed co-op in Utah.Referring to a fire that caused almost $1 million in damage and couldeasily have killed a family sleeping on the premises, Goodwin told TheDeseret News: \"We're ecstatic.\"J.P. Goodwin doesn't represent HSUS's only intersection with the animalrights movement's violent underbelly. Miyun Park, a Washington, DCanti-meat activist hired by HSUS in 2005, was acknowledged in 1999 asa financial benefactor of No Compromise magazine, a publication thatsupports the ALF and promotes arson and other violent tactics.206

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