From the HSUS president’s blog:

Our adversaries in the fields of agribusiness, the fur trade, the trophy hunting lobby, the cockfighting world, and the puppy mill industry want to tie the hands of our extraordinary staff and de-fund The HSUS. They hate the fact that we work on big, systemic change, challenging institutionalized cruelty of almost every type. They don’t want us to file lawsuits against factory farms or puppy mills; they don’t want us to work with law enforcement to bust dogfighters or puppy millers; they don’t want us to lobby to ban the most extreme confinement methods on factory farms through ballot initiatives, they don’t want us to work with regulatory agencies in the United States or Europe to phase out animal testing, they don’t want us to pressure corporations to wring out animal cruelty from their supply chain, whether it is food or fur from factory farms; they don’t want us to do a thousand other things that we do every day to make the big changes for animals that are so desperately needed.

He’s right. Animal exploiters don’t want the HSUS doing any of the things they’re doing. And they don’t want the rest of the animal movement doing it either.

Regardless of whether you support the big names like the HSUS, PETA, or other large and high-profile animal advocacy organizations, our enemies are the same: animal exploiters like factory farmers, furriers, cockfighters, dogfighters, and puppy mills.

Regardless of your preferred method of challenging institutionalized cruelty – whether you donate money or volunteer time to animal shelters, spend time doing vegan outreach, support undercover investigations, or through another means – we’re all working together to end animal exploitation. We’re on the same team.

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