BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. HSUS joined with the Dogwood Animal Shelter in Osage and Stray Rescue in St. Louis to file a lawsuit to block new fees for shelters. When the Animal Care Facilities Act was passed in the early 1990s, municipal pounds and shelters were exempt from paying fees. The reason why should be […]
I received a copy of recent Missouri Department of Agriculture inspection activity for Rabbit Ridge Kennels. To put everything in perspective, I created a timeline of inspection/violation that overlaps between the USDA/APHIS inspections and the Missouri Department of Agriculture (MDA) inspections. Sorry for the length of the writing: there are so many violations. Note that I didn’t have […]
Wayne Pacelle responded to the recent events with SB 161. Evidently the plan of the HSUS, Best Friends Society, and ASPCA is to focus on the Constitutional Amendment that protects citizen initiatives. The organizations also plan to monitor whether there is improvement for dogs in the puppy mills in Missouri. If there is no real improvement, the organizations […]
Posted on Facebook… The quote in the poster is from Helen Keller: Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.
I see that Missouri Farmers Care has moved on from fighting for the puppy mills and is now fighting for genetically modified foods. I expect next we’ll see an article about the healthful benefits of CAFO manure lagoons. Governor Nixon signed SB 161. That’s all that’s happened. He signed a bill that gutted Proposition B. Oh, […]