Goals
Purpose
Mission
Group
Classifications
and links
(many more
to follow) |
To
end all human "exploitation" of animals -
this includes, but is not limited to, raising
and slaughtering of livestock for human or
animal consumption, eating meat, hunting,
using animals for any medical or veterinary
research, zoos (regardless of how well
managed), circuses, rodeos, horseshows,
dogshows, animals performing in TV
commercials, shows or movies (regardless
of how well treated any of the above are),
guide-dogs for the blind, police dogs, search
& rescue dogs, and the
practice of owning pets.
PETA
(People For The
Ethical
Treatment Of
Animals)
HSUS (Humane Society Of
The
United
States)
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Several of
PETA's latest exploits have been their
campaign to speak to children at McDonald's
restaurants and to hand them literature designed
to frighten them from drinking milk.
In Vermont, PETA representatives coerced
Vermont elementary school teachers to take
down posters in classrooms bearing the
slogan "Got MILK?" and threatened school
officials with legal action if they did not
comply. The governor of the state ordered
that the dairy posters be put back up and
promised to allot special moneys for a fund
for legal defense against any future actions
of the radical animal rights group.
In Canada an Animal Rights group nearly put
a company out of business that manufactures
nutritional "sports snack bars." Claiming that
the company had been guilty of cruel animal
testing, they laced the bars with poison,
necessitating a nationwide recall. Dogs and
humans alike had been subjected to cold
temperatures to test how well the nutritious
snacks helped them to maintain body heat.
None of the test subjects were subjected to
conditions that in any way endangered their
health or caused extreme discomfort.
Last year,
PETA made a financial donation to the Earth
Liberation Front (ELF), a shadowy organization that the
FBI has labeled "the largest and most active U.S.-based
terror group." Since 1996, ELF and its sister group, the
Animal Liberation Front, have caused more than $43 million
in property damage resulting from over 600 attacks
including arson, assault and property destruction on a
massive scale. source: The Center for Consumer Freedom
"I openly hope that it comes here." Ingrid Newkirk, PETA
Co-Founder, on her desire for a USA hoof-and-mouth
epidemic. Quotation from:
"Hoping for Disease: PETA Hopes Foot-And-Mouth Strikes in
the United States by Alan Elsner, Reuters, Norfolk VA
4/2/01
"It would be great if all the fast-food outlets,
slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund
them exploded tomorrow... Hallelujah to the people who are
willing to do it."
Quote from Bruce Friedrich, PETA Spokesperson at the
"Animal Rights 2001" convention.
2002 - PETA's tax exempt status is currently under scrutiny
by the IRS, due to their history of criminal activity
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They
Speak For Themselves
The following are quotes from PETA's own
materials:
"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.
"Pet ownership is an absolutely
abysmal situation brought
about by human
manipulation."
-- Ingrid Newkirk, national director,
People for the Ethical
Treatment of
Animals (PeTA), Just Like Us?
Toward a Nation of Animal Rights"
(symposium), Harper's, August 1988,
p. 50.
"The cat, like the dog, must disappear
... We should cut the domestic cat
free
from our dominance by neutering,
neutering, and more
neutering, until our
pathetic version of the cat ceases to
exist." --John
Bryant, Fettered
Kingdoms: An Examination of A
Changing
Ethic
(Washington, DC: People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA),
1982), p. 15.
"Arson, property destruction, burglary
and theft are 'acceptable crimes'
when used for the animal cause."
-Alex Pacheco, Director, PeTA
"...the animal rights movement is not
concerned about species extinction.
An
elephant is no more or less
important than a cow, just as a
dolphin is no
more important than a
tuna...(In fact, many animal rights
advocates would
argue that it is
better for the chimpanzee to become
extinct than to be
exploited
continually in laboratories, zoos
and circuses." (Barbara Biel,
The Animals' Agenda, Vol 15 #3.
Torturing a human being is almost
always wrong, but it is not
absolutely
wrong." --Peter Singer, as quoted in
Josephine Donovan, "Animal
Rights
and Feminist Theory, " Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and
Society,
Winter 1990, p. 357.
"As long as humans have rights and
nonhumans do not, as is the case in
the
welfarist (animal welfare) framework,
then nonhumans will virtually always
lose when their
interests conflict with
human interests. Thus welfare reforms,
by their very
nature, can only serve to
retard the pace at which animal rights
goals are
achieved." (Francione &
Regan, "A Movement's Means Create
Its Ends,"
Animals' Agenda,
Jan.-Feb., 1992).
"To those people who say, `My father
is alive because of animal
experimentation,' I say `Yeah, well,
good for you. This dog died so your
father could live.' Sorry, but I am just
not behind that kind of trade off."
- Bill Maher, PeTA celebrity spokesman
(It bears
noting here that
advances in human medicine arrived at
through animal research, usually carry an
equivalent benefit to veterinary medicine -
ASPCA and other Animal
Welfare groups
monitor conditions in laboratories and
support legislation for humane conditions,
but do not call for an end to laboratory
research on animals---
webmaster's observation)
"If the death of one rat cured all diseases,
it wouldn't make any difference
to me."
--Chris DeRose, director, Last Chance
for Animals, as quoted in
Elizabeth Venant
and David Treadwell, "Biting Back," Los
Angeles Times,
April 12, 1990, p. E12.
"Even if animal tests produced a cure
[for AIDS], 'we'd be against
it.'" --Ingrid
Newkirk, national director, People for
the Ethical Treatment
of Animals (PeTA),
as quoted in Fred Barnes, "Politics,"
Vogue, September
1989, p. 542.
"If it [abolition of animal research] means
there are some things we cannot
learn,
then so be it. We have no basic right
not to be harmed by those
natural
diseases we are heir to."
--Tom Regan, as quoted in David T.
Hardy,
"America's New Extremists:
What You Need to Know About the
Animal Rights
Movement." (Washington,
DC: Washington Legal Foundation,
1990), p. 8.
"Even granting that we [humans] face
greater harm than laboratory animals
presently endure if ... research on these
animals is stopped, the animal
rights
view will not be satisfied with anything
less than total abolition."
(Tom Regan,
The Case for Animal Rights, 1983).
"If my father had a heart attack, it
would give me no solace at all to know
his treatment was first tried on a dog,"
Ingrid Newkirk, national director
for
People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals, (PeTA), Washington Post,
Nov. 13, 1983.
"Not only are the philosophies of
animal rights and animal welfare
separated
by irreconcilable differences...
the enactment of animal welfare
measures
actually impedes the
achievement of animal rights...
Welfare reforms, by
their very nature,
can only serve to retard the pace
at which animal rights
goals are
achieved." --Gary Francione and
Tom Regan, "A Movement's
Means
Create Its Ends," The
Animals' Agenda,
January/February 1992, pp. 40-42.
"I'm an insulin-dependent diabetic.
Twice a day I take synthetically
manufactured insulin that still contains
some animal products--and I have no
qualms about it." Sweetland adds,
"I don't see myself as a hypocrite.
I need
my life to fight for the rights
of animals." -Mary Beth Sweetland,
PETA
"Liberating our language by eliminating
the word 'pet' is the first step...In an
ideal society where all exploitation
and oppression has been
eliminated,
it will be NJARA's policy to oppose the
keeping of animals as 'pets.'" --New
Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, "Should
Dogs Be
Kept As Pets? NO!"
Good Dog! February 1991, p. 20.
"Let us allow the dog to disappear from
our brick and concrete jungles--from
our
firesides, from the leather
nooses and chains by which we
enslave
it." --John Bryant, Fettered
Kingdoms: An Examination of A
Changing Ethic
(Washington,
DC: People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals (PeTA), 1982),
p. 15.
"[A]s the surplus of cats and dogs
{artificially engineered by centuries
of
forced breeding) declined, eventually
companion animals would be phased
out,
and we would return to a more
symbiotic relationship--enjoyment at
a distance." --Ingrid Newkirk, "Just Like
Us?
Toward a Notion of Animal Rights"
(symposium), Harper's, August 1988, p. 50.
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FAQ (about the Animal Rights
Movement)
ANIMAL RIGHTS MYTHS
by Kevin O'Donnell
MYTH 2.15: "Animal rights groups
should
be supported by animal lovers."
In fact
AR groups such as PETA have many
extreme proposals that pet-lovers in
particular should be shocked by:
"Pet ownership is an abysmal
situation
brought about by human manipulation"
(Ingrid Newkirk, PETA founder
Washingtonian Aug. 1986)
"In the end
I think it would be lovely if we stopped
this whole
notion of pets
altogether"
(Ingrid Newkirk Newsday, Feb. 21 1988)
"One day we would like an end to
pet
shops and breeding animals [Dogs] would
pursue their natural lives in the wild"
(Ingrid Newkirk, Chicago
Daily Herald
Mar 1, 1990)
"Eventually companion
animals will be phased out...." (Ingrid
Newkirk, "Just Like
Us? Toward a
Notion of Animal Right" (symposium),
Harper's, August
1988)
"Let us allow
the dog to disappear from our brick
and concrete jungles- from
our
firesides, from the leather nooses and
chains by which we enslave
it." (John
Bryant, _Fettered Kingdoms: An
Examination of A Changing Ethic_
(Washington
D C,
PeTA, 1982). p. 15)
"The cat, like the dog, must
disappear..... We should cut the
domestic cat free from
our dominance
by neutering, neutering, and more
neutering, until our pathetic version
of the cat ceases to exist." (John
Bryant, _Fettered Kingdoms: An
Examination of a
Changing Ethic_
(Washington, D.C.: People
for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals,
1982), p.15)
From the above, it is clear that
pet-lovers have a great
deal to fear from the AR movement.
People who describe themselves
as
supporters of 'animal rights' are often
shocked to
discover the real agenda of
the AR organizations. This is because
being an animal lover
is not the same
as supporting animal rights. Most people
who describe
themselves as
animal
lovers, including most scientists, are in
fact supporters of
_animal welfare
_ rather
than animal rights
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(kevin@embra.compulink.co.uk).
Permission
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Animal Shelters Should Tell Animal
Rights Groups
Show Us the Money!
By Susan E. Paris
President, Americans for Medical Progress
For the amount of money raised and
spent by U.S. animal
rights groups every
cat and dog in America ought to have its
own condominium. Why then, do
more than 15 million pets
a year end up
in underfunded local humane shelters
with
overworked staff who are
frustrated that they cannot even
adequately feed and care for them?
And why are 11 million
of these
animals-three out of every four cats
and two out
of every three dogs-
destroyed for lack of a home?
The true measure of the success
or failure of the animal rights
movement in America ought to be
the number and condition
of animals
in local humane shelters. Animal rights
groups
claim to corner the market on
compassion for animals, so
what more
valuable a service could they provide?
What
more deserving an animal than
one that has no home, food
and medical
care?
Scores of news stories from around the
country attest to the
deplorable condition
of local animal shelters. Among the
problems cited: food shortages,
overcrowding, open sewage
pits
of animal waste, rodent, ant and
cockroach infestation
and lack of
medical treatment. At least one
shelter, due to a
lack of funds, had
been forced to destroy unwanted
animals
using an old carbon
monoxide chamber, or worse, because
of difficulties obtaining the drug
needed for a less painful death.
Euthanizing an animal using carbon
monoxide is considered
inhumane
because it is often a prolonged death
which causes
fear and suffering to
the animal.
In a 1995 direct mail solicitation,
the president of People
for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals,
Ingrid Newkirk,
wrote about the
condition of one local humane shelter.
She noted that the animals
"suffered from overcrowding,
lack of regular food and water,
and a failure to provide
veterinary
care." Newkirk wrote that, "Shelter
services
have been drastically
curtailed to the point where
...people
with animals have been turned
away at the door."
So what has PETA done to help these
homeless, hungry
and sick animals
and others that suffer and die in shelters
each year? According to its
FY 1995 tax documents,
next
to nothing.
Less than $5,000, or .03%, of PETA's
$13.4 million
budget was allocated to
shelter or spay and neuter program
in the U.S.
90% of the $1,485,076 PETA donated,
or $1.3 million,
went to itself-that is, PETA's
satellite offices in Germany,
The
Netherlands, and England.
Next to PETA's overseas offices, the
next largest donation,
$45,200, was sent
to animal rights terrorist Rodney Coronado
to help him avoid going to jail for firebombing
medical research
facilities. Coronado is
now serving a 57 month jail sentence.
The Humane Society of the United States,
for its part, raises
and spends close to $50
million, enough to bankroll at least
one
well-run animal shelter in every state and
have enough
left over to spay, neuter, feed
and save the lives of tens of
thousands
of dogs and cats every year. So how many
HSUS-run animal shelters benefit from
the HSUS budget?
None. Yet the HSUS
managed to pinch enough of its precious
pennies to pay its president, Paul Irwin,
$237,831 and its chief
executive officer,
John Hoyt, $209,051 in addition to
providing
tens of thousands of dollars
in bonuses to the pair.
What programs did the HSUS fund,
besides the
Paul Irwin and John Hoyt
"Luxury Living Fund?"
Legislative initiatives
to ban horse tripping. National effort
to ban bear wrestling. Contraception
programs for elephants and deer.
Why do animal rights groups refuse
to help shelter animals,
who need it most?
Why attack the biomedical community
for working with fewer than 150,000 dogs
and cats, which
live in comfortable
surroundings and receive the best
medical
care, and yet do nothing
for the 11 million hungry, sick animals
are destroyed in animal shelters
each year?
The animal rights movement's main goal
is not, and
never has been, to save or help
individual animals. Its
mission is to market
its philosophy and lifestyle to the
American
public-a lifestyle which is predicated on the
belief that the life of a rodent deserves the
same moral
consideration as
the life of a child. This sales pitch is
most effectively done through massive
media events, attention-grabbing legislative
initiatives and fancy Hollywood
galas. Shelter animals are sacrificed in the
short-term so that
animal rights groups can
gain the money, power and influence
needed to sell their view in the long-term.
Animal rights activists cannot blame
researchers,
hunters, circus owners,
meat-eaters, fur-and leather-wearers,
fishermen or zoo keepers for the
sorry condition of shelter
animals. It is
the animal rights movement which has
turned its
back on the suffering of
these animals. Every local humane
shelter should demand that animal
rights groups show
them the money.
And every animal rights donor should
find a local humane shelter to support
rather than PETA's
"naked celebrity"
campaign or some executive's
bank account.
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A colossal portion of HSUS's annual
budget is allotted
to staff salaries.
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The National Charities Information Bureau
(NCIB) is an excellent organization whose
purpose is to be a
resource on charitable
giving, how charitable boards should
operate, establishing standards which
charitable
organizations must meet to be
worthy of receiving
contributions, etc. Web
site is http://www.give.org ) PETA did
not meet the standards of the NCIB
because PETA does not have a full board
of directors!!! It's
run by Ingrid Newkirk
and about 2 or 3 others. No full
board at all!
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PETA has
recently opened an animal
shelter with a high euthanasia
rate in VA.
Monies spent on this new endeavor do
not represent a substantial
portion
of this organization's budget, to say
the least, and one
must seriously
question their motives - based on
their mission
statements of the
recent past (none of which have
been re-canted)
it would seem the
purpose of this shelter's existence
is a PR move
to counter their poor
reputation regarding the welfare and
treatment of animals.
(italicized words are my own -
Marci Sudlow 8-20-00)
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To
prevent suffering and cruelty to animals. And to
provide care
and good homes for pets in need. This
often includes, but is not
limited to, the funding and
running of animal shelters (to provide a
sanctuary for
abandoned, abused, homeless, or unwanted pets, and
to place
them in good homes where possible, provide
painless euthanasia for those
that cannot be adopted,
and to educate the public about the need for
spaying/neutering their pets to prevent
more surplus
animals ending up in
shelters), enforcement of
anti-cruelty
statutes (where their authority permits),
initiating, lobbying for, and monitoring
enforcement
of legislation to ensure
more humane standards of
care
for livestock, laboratory animals, performing
animals, and pets.
ASPCA
(American Society For The
Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals)
MSPCA
(MA Society For The Prevention
Of Cruelty To Animals)
NAIA (The
National Animal Interest Alliance)
http://www.naiaonline.org/aboutus.htm
(at present there is a controversy
regarding 2 of
the 20+ persons on their board of directors who
represent the "pet industry." Upon review of the
facts, I cautiously endorse NAIA. To decide for
yourself, please click on link below)
http://www.angelfire.com/vt2/rutland/NAIAcontroversy.html
AHA
(American Humane Association)
Rutland
County Humane Society (This
is a link to my
local humane society shelter here in Rutland,
Vermont.
This shelter is an extremely well run, and fairly
well-funded despite funding by donations alone. However
most humane
shelters nationwide are run on the same
principles and are excellent
causes to
donate
to, where
contributions have a direct impact on homeless pets and
animals
in the community.)
Collie
Rescue League of New England (Similarly this is
the dog breed rescue
of which I am a member, and an
example of an extremely effective such
group. Similar
rescue groups exist nationwide for nearly every breed
of
dog and for cats, and provide direct help in placing pets
in need of
homes)
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With great regret I
report that ASPCA's
most recent
venture
is the initiation of a lawsuit against Ringling
Brothers Barnum &
Bailey's Circus, ie "The Greatest
Show on Earth," and traditionally home of some
of
the world's most talented and knowledgable
animal
trainers and historically best cared for
performing
animals.
The lawsuit alleges training abuses and
violations of wildlife laws. This misuse of
money to
harass
this haven for exotic animals (in contrast to
the
poor quality of life
offered by what is left of their natural
environment
where they are
threatened with extinction
by poachers and loss of habitat.)
I am most
distressed by this misuse of
donations to
fund this Animal Rights style campaign. I am not
yet
ready to discontinue my membership to this group,
in
light of the
overwhelming positive accomplishments to
their credit. However I am
going to qualify that no portion
of my donations are to be used for this
misguided lawsuit,
and I plan to watch their future activities
carefully.
On a positive note, in the wake of the World Trade Ctr
disaster, ASPCA conducted an awe-inspiring endeavor of
rescuing and reuniting pets with displaced owners
who resided in evacuated buildings near the World Trade
Center in NYC. Because ASPCA is, among other
things, a law enforcement agency, their officers were
permitted to escort pet-owners back into their apartment
buildings, or to go on their own, to retrieve abandoned
pets. ASPCA set up their mobile unit on a nearby site
where all rescued pets were given a thorough check-up
by a veterinarian, and in some cases held until they were
deemed well enough to be released to their owners. Eye
infections from the soot were treated; oxygen was given to
pets with respiratory troubles, and IV fluids were
administered to dehydrated animals. The percentage of successful
rescues versus the very few animals lost was astounding.
Also AHA was on the scene with a
similar set-up to
provide veterinary support for the search and rescue dogs.
AHA's performance on behalf of these hard-working dogs
was worthy of monumental praise.
Founded by Henry Bergh in 1866, the ASPCA is the
oldest humane organization in America, and one of
the largest hands-on animal welfare organizations in
the world.
The Society also prompted the New York
State legislature to pass the country's first effective
anti-cruelty law.
The ASPCA headquarters in New York City houses
one of the area's largest full service animal hospitals,
an adoption facility, and the Humane Law Enforcement
Department, which is responsible for enforcing New
York's animal cruelty laws.
The History of ASPCA
In 1867 ASPCA operated the first ambulance
anywhere for injured horses, two years before New
York's Bellevue Hospital put into service the first
ambulance for humans.
In 1874 Bergh helped organize the first Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (SPCC) on
behalf of an abused 9-year-old girl named Mary Ellen.
In 1875 Bergh invented a canvas sling for rescuing
horses that got stuck in the mud or fell into the river.
In 1894 ASPCA assumed the job of caring for New
York City's stray and unwanted animals, a function
previously performed by New York City government.
In 1902 ASPCA put a motorized horse ambulance
into service.
In 1912 ASPCA opened its first veterinary facility,
a free horse dispensary.
In 1916 ASPCA started a formal humane education
program for school children. Raised money to help
care for the 934,000 horses that served in World War I.
In 1920 ASPCA advanced the use of anesthesia in
animal surgery. First used radium to treat cancer in
animals.
In 1925 ASPCA began a weekly series of talks
over the new communications medium: radio.
In 1928 ASPCA expanded the humane education
program with classroom demonstrations in public
schools and summer playgrounds.
In 1939 ASPCA inspected the 2,000 animals on
exhibit at the New York World's Fair.
In 1942 ASPCA took wartime emergency
measures and conducted courses on care of
animals in the event of air raids.
In 1944 ASPCA inaugurated obedience training
classes for dogs and their owners.
In 1952 ASPCA began voluntary inspection of
laboratories in New York that use animals for
research -- the first program of its kind in the country.
In 1954 ASPCA expanded its animal hospital by
adding a contagious disease ward, pathology
laboratory, X-ray therapy laboratory and an
internship program.
In 1958 ASPCA opened the Animalport at
Kennedy International Airport to inspect and
care for animals entering or leaving the country
by plane. United States Department of Agriculture
takes over this work in 1994.
In 1961 ASPCA's animal hospital performed
its first open-heart surgery on a dog.
ASPCA acquired patents for pens for the
humane slaughter of food animals and offered
them royalty-free to meat packers throughout
the world in 1964. Began a course to train
animal handlers working for research institutions.
ASPCA celebrated 100th anniversary in 1966 by
renaming the hospital after Henry Bergh and
presenting a gold medallion to Walt Disney for
his positive depiction of animals.
In 1973 ASPCA adoptions department began
compulsory spay/neuter for all animals.
In 1976 Dr. Gordon Robinson developed
the Bergh bandage, a highly efficient design still
being adopted across the country.
In 1985 Government affairs office opened in
Washington, DC, to monitor, initiate and lobby
for legislation to protect animals.
Advocated for
Animal Welfare Act revisions to include
provisions for the exercise of dogs and the
psychological welfare of primates used in
animal research.
In 1992 ASPCA began promoting the adoption
of retired greyhounds, administering a grant
from the American Greyhound Council to help
rescue groups across the country.
In 1993 ASPCA along with 10 other humane
organizations, initiated National Council on
Pet Population Study and Policy, the first
survey and census of shelter animals in the
United States.
In 1994 ASPCA helped to pass the 1994
New York State Animal Experimentation Bill
that allows students who object to dissection
to complete an alternative project without a
negative impact on their
grade.
In 1995 after 100 years of providing animal
control services for New York City,
ASPCA
declined to renew the contract in order to
focus on national education, information and
advocacy. Animated "Spokescritters" adopted
by ASPCA from the Walt Disney animation
studios.
In 1996 ASPCA acquired the National
Animal Poison Control Center, the only
veterinary toxicology telephone service
operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Henry Bergh Memorial Hospital inaugurated
the Care-A-Van, a mobile spay/neuter clinic
for the New York metropolitan area.
ASPCA offers new services: mobile
vet-clinic vans to
bring medical care
to poor neighborhoods, as well as a
Companion Animal Services dept..
The mission of the ASPCA Massachusetts
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
is to protect animals, relieve their suffering,
advance their health and welfare, prevent cruelty,
and work for a just and compassionate society
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The MSPCA/AHES's seven shelters around the
state take in as many as 1,000 animals per
shelter per month during the busy summer
season. They provide vital services such as
adoptions, behavior training, humane-education
programs, and spay/neuter programs.
Each year more than 80,000 animals receive
outstanding routine and specialty care at the
MSPCA's three Massachusetts-based
state-of-the-art veterinary hospitals, including
Angell Memorial in Boston, one of the foremost
clinical veterinary institutions in the world.
In addition to investigating cruelty complaints,
MSPCA law enforcement officers inspect
facilities and events involving animals; testify
in court; work with police and social-service
agencies in animal-related cases; and speak
to school and community groups about animal
care and protection.
History of the MSPCA
1868 George T. Angell founds the MSPCA on
March 23, after reading about an event in which
two horses were raced to death 1868 Angell
publishes the first edition of Our Dumb Animals
—the first magazine "to speak for those who
cannot speak for themselves" and the precursor
to today's Animals magazine
1882 The first American Band of Mercy—
a group of school children who pledge to be
kind to animals and to keep them from cruel
usage—is formed; soon there are hundreds
of Bands of Mercy across the nation
1886 First official headquarters of the MSPCA
is dedicated at 19 Milk Street, Boston
1889 The American Humane Education Society
(AHES) is incorporated
1890 Angell publishes the first American edition
of Anna Sewell's humane classic, Black Beauty,
and distributes 2 million copies free through the
Bands of Mercy
1893 AHES distributes the children's classic
Beautiful Joe
1909 George T. Angell dies
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Know
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