Anyone with three brain cells to string together can spend five minutes on the HSUS website and know exactly what their purpose is. Anyone who has donated online gets regular emails from HSUS detailing their mission and their actions.

Sadly, you will soon need to go back and tell your clients that you failed miserably in protecting their ability to use and abuse animals indiscriminately and without any regard for their humane treatment. You see, the times, they are a-changing. You and your clients can keep on trying to hold back progress on behalf of animals but the American public has had enough of the abuse and will not stand for it anymore. (See Conklin Dairy Farms, an atrocious example of the torture of dairy cows, which the members of your group regularly defend).

Ms. Longwell has obviously sold her soul to the devil himself, Rick Berman. Let’s see, so far, she’s come out in support of rights for drunk drivers, opposing increases to the minimum wage, fighting unions, supporting abusive payday loan practices, and now she’s against the humane treatment of animals. It seems she’ll take any contrarian position as long as she’s well compensated to do so.

The fact is, as an HSUS supporter, I know full well how they spend their money. I applaud them for doing the work on the national level that the local shelters and other animal welfare groups have been unable or unwilling to do. Their commercials show a variety of animals filmed during a number of HSUS direct actions: puppy mill and dog fighting raids, hoarding situations, disaster responses, and cruelty investigations. The fact that the CCF still likes to point to HSUS ads and interject some sort of nefarious intent where none exists, quite simply, reeks of desperation.