[Moderator's note: Most of this is entirely off-topic.  In view of the
HSUS fuss I'm letting it through, but the main purpose of the FML isn't
bashing the HSUS, even if they do deserve it... unless, of course, it
directly relates to fuzzbeans.  BIG]
 
DR. DAVID O. WIEBERS, HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES
 
G "Perhaps the time has come for all of us to recognize that humankind's
greatest goal, which outweighs lengthening life through medical
advancements, is to evolve spiritually....I see a day...where all of us
begin to come to the realization that it is compassion for all life,
rather than scientific advancement.  that represents the pinnacle of human
existence." (HSUS News, Winter 1992, p.  11).
 
DR. MICHAEL FOX, HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES
 
G (Expressing opposition to use of bug sprays)  "Only a few of the million
you kill would have bitten you." (Returning to Eden, Fox publication)
 
"Humans are different. were not superior. There are no clear distinctions
between us and animals. "  in a 1990 interview
 
"The life of an ant and the life of my child shoul dbe granted equal
consideration" Dr Fox "inhumane society" Fox publications
 
"Dont breed dogs, dont buy, dont even accept giveaways" HSUS CEO John
Hoyt in a 1991 speech.
 
"One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of
domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding" HSUS
V.P Wayne Pacelle (Former Ntl director of fund for animals)
 
"At a public forum, Michael W. Fox of the Humane Society of the United
States was asked whether there were any circumstances in which he would
accept animal experimentation. He replied, 'Just to ask that question
indicates you are a speciesist and probably a sexist and a racist.  Such
labeling inevitably precludes further dialogue."
 
At a forum convened to discuss the Off Broadway play, "Better People,"
February 1, 1990, at the Theatre for a New City.
 
"'Animals, like ordinary people,' claims Michael W. Fox of HSUS. "are the
victims of a medical mind-set of disease and disease treatment instead of
preventative medicine."
Michael W. Fox, quoted in "M. D.", March, 1984, 99.
 
"In a 1984 lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Jeremy Rifkin,
a persistent critic of biotechnology, and Michael Fox of HSUS claimed that
genetic breeding practices were creating obese animals with skeletal
abnormalities and unable to mate. More than simply cruel, these techniques
violated the rights of animals by 'robbing them of their unique genetic make
up."
 
Jeffrey L. Fox, "USDA Animal Research Under Fire," BioScience 35,1
(January 1985).
 
"Despite reforms, many animal rights groups vociferously oppose zoos.
Michael W. Fox describes his favorite zoo exhibit: a large mirror behind some
bars with the caption, 'Homo Sapiens, a dangerous predatorial tool- and
weapon-waking primate. Status: endangered by its own doing."
 
Fox and others argue that the educational function of zoos could be better
met with documentary films, that zoos do more harm than good because the
create diseased and frustrated animals. He describes the behavior of caged
animals, for example their relentless pacing, as neurotically repetitive
compulsions resulting from captivity and stress."
 
Michael W. Fox, "The Trouble With Zoos," Animals' Agenda 6 (June 1986) 8.
 
"Michael W. Fox sees zoos and animal shows as emblems of capitalist
industrial technology. Exploiting such techniques as behavioral monitoring
and genetic engineering, public spectacles of performing animals are a ritual
enactment of human control over nature. They 'serve to perpetuate the
righteousness of humankind's domination over animals and nature as well as
the myth of human superiority."
 
They reflect, he feels, a desire for power and control.  The need for human
mastery of the beast and its wild instincts, claims Fox, represents a
puritanical fear of our own impulsive nature, of our own 'beastly'
Passions."
 
Michael W. Fox, "Unnatural Acts," Animals' Agenda 6 (June 1986): 9
 
"In June 1990, almost 30,000 activists came to Washington, D.C.  to
participate in a 'March For the Animals.' It was the first united
mobilization of the animal rights movement, and its largest rally,
attracting people from across the United States.  Both militant and
moderate animal rights groups were represented at the demonstration, and
the leading animal rights activists were there: Peter Singer, Tom Regan,
Ingrid Newkirk, George Cave, Alex Pacheco, and Michael Fox."
 
John Sanbonmatsu, "Animal Rights Mobilization," Z Magazine, July-August
1990, 60-61.
 
The following quote is from "The Hijacking of the Humane Movement" by Rod
and Patti Strand (Doral Publishing, Wilsonville, Oregon, 1993, ISBN 0-
944875-28-9).
 
The Strands are Dalmation breeders, and Patti is executive director of the
National Animal Interest Alliance and a director of the American Kennel Club.
 
"HSUS Vice President Michael W.  Fox told Newsweek in 1988: 'Humane care is
simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.'" The interview Dr.  Fox gave on
the superiority of the "Natural Dog" to purpose-bred dogs was broadcast on
WBAP-TV in Dallas, TX earlier this year.
 
Dr.  Fox was a major contributor to the infamous and inaccurate ecember
1994 Time article on dog breeding (and is quoted in the article as well).
 
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NOTE:  And we think the HSUS will change its mind about ferrets?  They are
already trying to wipe out dogs and cats.
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[Posted in FML issue 1243]