Voice for Animals Humane Society

Alberta has always been good to me. A good economy, lots of jobs and nice way of life. I believe in Alberta and for what it stands for.

A new enemy of Alberta has raised it’s ugly head in recent years. A enemy hidden in the guise of animal rights. The animal rights movement is nothing new and has been around for years. Alberta has been shielded from the animal rights movement for the most part. But now things seem to be changing.

The animal rights movement here in Alberta is not really concerned with the welfare of animals, the push for animal rights is only to give an appearance of legitimacy. The true agenda of the animal rights movement is quite a bit different.

The animal rights movement demands that we outlaw hunting, fishing, trapping and stop eating all forms of animal meat. No more hamburgers and milkshakes. No more ranching, cattle,dairy products, honey, use of horses, zoos, circuses and the list goes on. They are even threatening us with loosing our family pets!! The animal rights extremists are just plain nuts!!

If the animal rights extremists even gets part of their true agenda, what will happen to the Alberta economy. Alberta and all the good it stands for may cease to exists. Even our oil and gas is not safe from them!!

Don’t buy into their nonsense and do not support them financially. The animal rights movement and the extremists can never be trusted.
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The backlash against animal rights has grown considerable over the last five years or so. Today, there is even a *quack watch*. Hundred’s of websites have sprung up all trying to inform us of the dangers of taking animal rights too far. There is no lack of ammunition one can use against animal rights. One website was about animal rights people attacking a 87 year old woman who had a hunting bumper sticker on her car. Another one I read about, was two PETA employees that were killing animals in the back of a PETA-owned van, and tossing the animals bodies into a dumpster located at a mall. Many of the reports were much worse.

Animal rights groups appear to be loosing ground.The police are getting much tougher with them and they are losing their long war against scientific experimentation on animals. The issue of human rights has come up more then once. Was this a wake up call?? Did animal rights groups forced us to examine animal and human rights issues more closely. Have we then,as a people, have a much better understanding for ourselves of what we want and what we don’t?

Here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, we had a rash of cats mutilations in Aug./2007. Was this someone with mental health problems or was this more animal rights backlash? In Dec.2007, four dumb kids put a cat in a microwave. The media attention this got was considerable. In May 2007, a man put his baby in the microwave in Galveston, Texas. Did anyone hear about that?? Kinda makes you wonder…

Whenever I visit the Voice for animals website, I often wonder how much damage do they cause to the animals they believe their helping out. They make themselves out to be people running on the last 3 working brain cells. Instead of preaching to us meat eating heathens to but down our forks and pick up the tofu, why don’t they spend some quality time actually helping out.

Alberta is in desperate need of cat shelters. Though there is no way of getting an accurate count of how many stray cats their are in the province, but no doubt it’s in the 10’s of thousands. Voice for Animals would be much more respected if it opened a no-kill cat shelter. It’s a service that is desperately needed. Instead, Voice for Animals wants to outlaw fishing and hunting.

A education program geared towards children explaining the value of spaying and neutering our pets would just be wonderful. Instead, Voice for Animals wants the kids to stop drinking milk.

What about bringing in pets for the children in the local hospitals? Another very worthy and honorable cause. Instead, Voice for Animals attacks the Shriners Hospitals for sick Children. Now who is really sick??

There are so many ways a group like Voice for Animals could help out in the province. Voice for Animals could use a big injection of humanity, or perhaps compassion. In their zeal to promote extremists views, they seem to forget that we are all human. (or do they really care??)

It’s such a pity that Voice for Animals chooses to follow the “dark side of the force”

The following statement I copied straight from the Voice for Animals website:

“Animals are not commodities to be bought and sold. Stores who participate in this, and breeders who supply them will one day, in an enlightened future, be seen for who they are… slave traders.”

A couple of points I would like to make about the statement besides the obvious that someone went off their meds. First, anyone who buys and sells pets are slave traders?? This would have to mean that our family pets would have that same rights as ourselves. I lock my dog up every night for his own protection, am I kidnapping him!! Secondly, sometime in the future we are going to be “enlightened” WOW-good thing to know. The only other time I saw this word was in the TV show-Stargate SG1. They had some dudes in the show that were telling people to get ready for the age of enlightenment. I think Voice for Animals is ready for it now.

What is Voice for Animals trying to sell us on??

Voice for Animals is comprised of extremists who’s view point is only a little off the beaten path. It would not what I would say to be “mainstream” The majority of the people in this country don’t think and have the same values as the people in Voice for Animals. I believe in not being cruel to animals as well but these people have gone way beyond what most normal people believe.

Below is a list I took off the Voice for Animals website:

1) Animals in entertainment-this would include circuses and zoos. Animal rights extremists do not believe in allowing us to see, touch or watch any animals. They want all zoos and circuses closed, period.

2) Sport hunting and fishing-they are demanding that fishing and hunting is to be outlawed. This really goes over well in Alberta, Canada here. If Voice for Animals doesn’t like hunting and fishing, well that’s just too bad because it’s not going to change.

3)Animals in research and product testing- They are demanding that all research and protesting using animal to be stopped. Though I also don’t like testing using animals, however I do realize it does save lives.

4) Fur production-I thought the fur business was a thing of the past. There are very few people wearing furs today. Voice for animals should put this one to bed because it’s pretty much a dead issue. (no pun intended)

5) Companion animals-they changed the name of pets to companion animals, I guess it sounds better. I agree in the well being of our pets and it would be rather nice if Voice for Animals actually did something to help them out. Voice for Animals Humane Society is an animal advocacy and protection group. They may not actually help out any animal.

6) Factory farming and vegetarianism-I am not even going to touch any problems with farming in Alberta, if they don’t like it, tuff beans. And now we get around to discussing vegetarianism. Well it goes like this… Why are they trying to convert me from my heathen ways when I like being who I am. I am not telling Voice for Animals Humane Society how to eat, why are they telling me?

As in all the animal rights groups in Canada today, Voice for Animals Humane Society is looking for your donation dollar. I would ask anyone reading this blog, before you donate any money to any animal group, check them out first.