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Responded Humane Farming Association founder Brad Miller, “It is simply delusional to think that getting humane organizations into the business of promoting meat from heritage breed chickens will result in even the slightest reduction of animal suffering. The ASPCA decision to fund the commercial production of chickens for meat raises a number of troubling issues,” Miller continued. “Beyond the obvious ethical issues from the animals’ standpoint, there is also the matter of using charitable dollars to further the commercial interests of a privately owned, profit-driven poultry company. This is just the latest,” Miller charged, “in a growing trend on the part of several major animal organizations to, in effect, merge with the livestock industry.” Miller noted that Farm Forward has previously promoted a variety of federal and state legislation that HFA regarded as more likely to entrench the status quo in animal agriculture than to bring about meaningful change.

“A commercial animal production operation is not an alternative to factory farming, but an extension of it. In this instance, chickens and turkeys are being mass-produced in mechanical hatchery incubators, raised motherless for human consumption by the thousands, and slaughtered, i.e., factory farmed.

“In addition to cruelty and commodification of animals being falsely represented as ‘humane,’ ‘compassionate,’ ‘anti-factory farming,’ etcetera,” Davis added, “is that these relatively smaller farms seek to grow and expand. Regardless of what size they are, they do not reduce the amount of resources needed to raise and slaughter animals

“It is unethical for an ‘animal welfare’ organization,” Davis concluded, “to suggest to the public that millions and billions of people can continue to eat the same number of animals, as long as these animals are raised ‘humanely’ on non-factory farms. Humans will never set aside hundreds of millions or billions of acres of land to accommodate billions of animals living ‘free range,’ yet this is the false prospect being offered to a public that wants to believe that incompatible desires and realities can be reconciled.”

If you think it is wrong for the ASPCA to use charitable donations to fund and promote poultry slaughter, expand poultry breeding and hatchery facilities and pretend that a factory farm is Not a factory farm, while doing NOTHING to promote genuine compassion and respect for these birds,

La Autoridad Veterinaria es responsable de aplicar la legislación en materia de sanidad y bienestar de los animales en coordinación con otros organismos e instituciones gubernamentales competentes.

la organización y/o supervisión de los programas de control canino pueden ser responsabilidad de organizaciones no gubernamentales u organismos oficiales distintos de la Autoridad Veterinaria.

Organizaciones no gubernamentalesLas organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG) pueden ser colaboradores valiosos para los Servicios Veterinarios, pues ayudan a informar y sensibilizar a la población y a obtener recursos para contribuir de modo práctico a la concepción y correcta aplicación de los programas de control de perros. Además, pueden aportar su conocimiento de la población canina local y del modo en que los propietarios ejercen de tales, además de su saber hacer en la manipulación y guarda de perros y la aplicación de programas de esterilización. Junto con los veterinarios y las autoridades, también pueden contribuir a educar al público en materia de propiedad responsable de un perro.

El fomento de la propiedad responsable de los perros con medidas tanto legislativas como pedagógicas es un componente indispensable de todo programa de control de la población canina.

La colaboración con las autoridades gubernamentales locales, ONG dedicadas al bienestar de los animales, clubes de residencias caninas, veterinarios privados y agrupaciones profesionales de veterinarios ayudará a las Autoridades Veterinarias a instituir y perpetuar este tipo de programas.

formas más responsables de propiedad

se requiere una combinación de medidas de legislación, información pública, pedagogía y promoción de todos estos elementos.