Ask HSMO to Stop Exploiting and Killing Some Animals to Save Others

Ask HSMO to Stop Exploiting and Killing Some Animals to Save Others

The Issue

The Humane Society of Missouri does some admirable work with dogs, cats, horses, and other animals--including abused farmed animals who have been seized--and it deserves much praise for its recent efforts to rescue and care for 400+ pit bulls seized in a massive dogfighting raid. But unfortunately, HSMO also continues to host fundraising events that rely on the endangerment and exploitation of horses (for entertainment) and the killing of cows, chickens, and pigs (for food), in order to financially support the care of those very same animals at Longmeadow Rescue Ranch.

Please read this post for more details on this situation and on the events.

Sign this petition to ask the HSMO to change its policies and make its events truly animal-friendly, to stop raising funds for one set of farmed animals by exploiting, endangering, and killing other sets of farmed animals.

The letter is customizable, but please remain respectful. This isn't about yelling at or demonizing HSMO and Longmeadow Rescue Ranch; it is about asking them to recognize a problem and make a compassionate change.

In addition to signing this petition, please consider also faxing your concerns to the HSMO administrative offices: 314-647-4317

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Stephanie ErnstPetition StarterStephanie was the original editor and blogger for Animal Rights at Change.org, from the site's 2008 launch until December 2009. Along with some fellow advocates, she currently blogs at <a href="http://challengeoppression.com/">Animal Rights & AntiOppression,</a> which she founded upon leaving Change.org. See that site's <a href="http://challengeoppression.com/about/">about page</a> and <a href="http://challengeoppression.com/contributor-bios/">contributors page</a> for more information. --- She is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull. In her advocacy, she works to challenge prevailing perceptions of animals, to show the connections between animal exploitation and other injustices, to help people see that animals are more like us than different, and to encourage compassionate, nonviolent living and eating.
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The Issue

The Humane Society of Missouri does some admirable work with dogs, cats, horses, and other animals--including abused farmed animals who have been seized--and it deserves much praise for its recent efforts to rescue and care for 400+ pit bulls seized in a massive dogfighting raid. But unfortunately, HSMO also continues to host fundraising events that rely on the endangerment and exploitation of horses (for entertainment) and the killing of cows, chickens, and pigs (for food), in order to financially support the care of those very same animals at Longmeadow Rescue Ranch.

Please read this post for more details on this situation and on the events.

Sign this petition to ask the HSMO to change its policies and make its events truly animal-friendly, to stop raising funds for one set of farmed animals by exploiting, endangering, and killing other sets of farmed animals.

The letter is customizable, but please remain respectful. This isn't about yelling at or demonizing HSMO and Longmeadow Rescue Ranch; it is about asking them to recognize a problem and make a compassionate change.

In addition to signing this petition, please consider also faxing your concerns to the HSMO administrative offices: 314-647-4317

avatar of the starter
Stephanie ErnstPetition StarterStephanie was the original editor and blogger for Animal Rights at Change.org, from the site's 2008 launch until December 2009. Along with some fellow advocates, she currently blogs at <a href="http://challengeoppression.com/">Animal Rights & AntiOppression,</a> which she founded upon leaving Change.org. See that site's <a href="http://challengeoppression.com/about/">about page</a> and <a href="http://challengeoppression.com/contributor-bios/">contributors page</a> for more information. --- She is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull. In her advocacy, she works to challenge prevailing perceptions of animals, to show the connections between animal exploitation and other injustices, to help people see that animals are more like us than different, and to encourage compassionate, nonviolent living and eating.
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The Decision Makers

Kathryn Warnick
Kathryn Warnick
President, Humane Society of Missouri
Amanda Hirshberg
Amanda Hirshberg
Director, Longmeadow Rescue Ranch
Jessica Stegen
Jessica Stegen
Event Coordinator, Humane Society of Missouri

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Petition created on July 24, 2009