Change: Get Involved
If you want to change the disheartening direction of animal rights influence over politicians, you have a choice. Complain or get involved. Today you can take a simple step; as sign a petition to let the Obama administration know that the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) do not represent the majority of Americans.
HSUS recently released “100-Point Change Agenda for Animals” to “help” the new administration and also shared it during their state legislative days in the last week. Perhaps it’s easy for a special interest group who doesn’t pay income taxes (see posting on the multi-million dollar activist industry) to forget about the obvious need to help PEOPLE experiencing global economic challenges. Imagine the jobs that could be generated by the millions of dollars spent on these activist groups. Further, food prices could be more affordable if these groups weren’t continually pushing regulations that drive up the cost of farming.
Before I digress, the petition you’re being asked to sign was forwarded by a dairy farmer in southern California who has worked for several years to give a voice to animal agriculture . Interestingly enough, the petition came from a pet owners group called PetPAC. You can learn more at https://petpac.net/action/chairmancolumn/100_points/. As they point out, “This is “Big Brother” at its worst. Creating a federal justice department (think FBI) to investigate animal protection issues, elevates our pets and other animals to the status of humans. It gives the federal justice department broad authority to file criminal charges against private citizens in the name of their pets.”
Case in point of authority gone awry, the new Senate Majority Leader in California and HSUS buddy Dean Florez. He’s known for going after animal agriculture and is already using his position to push a personal agenda. Is that really what leadership represents? If there are no voices working against that influence, then perhaps this is leadership in today’s culture. It’s up to agriculture – and not just those working with animals – to decide if they want to complain or make a change and get involved.
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With today’s global challenges, chaos and economic spirals, it has become more important for us as individuals and as a country to protect our farming and agricultural infrastructures. Unfortuantly, most people don’t know and usually don’t care where their food comes from. Many think it just comes from their local grocery store. There is no understanding or concern by many, including our own government, that without a strong agricultural community our country would be at the mercy of the rest of the world. If you can’t feed your country, it won’t matter if your banks collapse. Just think how much our food would cost if we had to import the majority of it. There are already a few countries that I can think of that would love to see the United States starve and would be happy to contribute to that end.
If we as a country do not become more concerned with the issue of preserving our ag communities and family farms we will soon be truly at the mercy of those who waiting to destroy us.