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United States News Title: Consumer group running Super Bowl ad against the Humane Society of the United States In light of these new developments, CCF will run an informational ad during the Super Bowl asking Americans to give to their local shelter. Local humane societies are not affiliated with HSUS despite the similarity in names. You can see the ad in the video box below: Here’s the advertisement, which you can look for during the Super Bowl if you happen to be watching. The details being revealed by the CCF are heartbreaking, particularly to me, though apparently people have known about this for a while now. I suppose I just didn’t want to believe it and turned a blind eye. It’s true that the HSUS has gotten into trouble recently with their own #MeToo allegations, as Karen reported already. But these other issues are very troubling and have supposedly been going on for a quite a while. The first thing to know is that Humane Society of the United States is not directly affiliated with the local Humane Society shelters you probably see near where you live. Those shelters are run independently by local groups and subsist almost entirely on charitable contributions from their communities. You may have thought (as I did) that if you send money in to the address you see on those HSUS television advertisements that it’s going to help the animals in the shelters. Sadly, as CCF points out, less than one percent of their donations go out to local shelters. And that’s not the only problem being identified. From the CCF press release: This is simply terrible. I really wasn’t aware of this situation, even though I spent years volunteering at a Humane Society shelter (that’s actually where I met my wife, who was also volunteering) and have adopted many pets from them over the years. I was already aware of the awful record that PETA has and the fact that they don’t actually rescue any appreciable number of animals with the massive amounts of money they raise, but I somehow felt that the Humane Society was a far better organization. But if this national organization is withholding 99% of their donations from the actual animal shelters, that’s not a good use of funds for anyone who wants to directly save dogs and cats. With Charity Navigator giving them a pathetic two-star rating (which is even worse than PETA’s), there are obviously better ways to directly help animals. The suggestion in the CCF ad is a good one. Donating money locally puts the help closer to the animals in need. Better yet, go down and help them clean the shelter, drop off some food, cat litter or even old, used blankets for the dogs and cats to sleep on. And, of course, the biggest gift you can give is to make room in your home and your heart for one of the lost animals stranded at the shelter and looking for a forever home. Poster Comment: Just another in a very long list of phony "charities" that somehow never get busted for being corrupt organizations. It's a disgrace what charities have turned into in America, little more than fronts for scammers. It's surprising to me how many people are surprised when they learn about "charity" scamming. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4.
#2. To: Tooconservative (#0)
A story of the ages.... people taking advantage of other people's sympathy. Identify a WEAKNESS in the human populace, and bingo, Ol' Jed's a millionaire.
We need for Congress to crack down on all these fake charities. Unfortunately, the people running fake charities give a lot of political donations to keep their con jobs legal.
I've always known that most charities are bogus. Show a little poor black African child, with a big fat tear drop on her face, and millions of weak people will fill someone's pocket. I take my beer and soda bottles (nickel deposit) over to the SPCA... and that's only because they are a non profit resource for law enforcement, when dealing with a dog running loose or hit by a car.
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