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Not So Humane "Humane Education"
Bill Seeks to Move Animal Rights Propaganda into Californian Schools at Taxpayer Expense
CALIFORNIA BILL ATTACKS humans under "humane education" while giving big $$$ to animal rights groups! Sound like a nightmare? It is! SB 811 would move animal rights propaganda into the California schools at taxpayer expense. Even worse, it's sponsored by California State Senator Jack O'Connell (D-San Luis Obispo) who is running this fall for State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
What will SB811 do?
If SB 811 passes, it will use taxpayer dollars to fund animal rights-focused corporations, offering them free promotion and creating a multi-million-dollar conduit for advancing their agenda through our children. The wording in the bill is subtle, almost hidden:
"(f) The promotion of compassion and respect for both humans and animals shall be considered, where relevant, in the next cycle in which the science, and history/social science curricula frameworks and the accompanying instructional materials are adopted."
The Doris Day Animal League and Fund for Animals admit that SB811 is an "Humane Education Bill" which will establish a "humane curriculum". The bill's supporters are animal rights groups.
In short, SB 811 is an attempt to force California schools to underwrite the costs of programs run by extreme groups promoting an animal "rights" philosophy. SB 811 is selling a product that taxpayers should not be forced to buy and our children should not be forced to consume.
What You Can Do
Contact Sen. O'Connell with your concerns at PO Box 1360, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406; Tel: 805-547-1818; www.oconnell2002.org. If you live in California, tell him he won't be getting your vote for State Superintendent of Public Instruction this fall unless he gets educated on why we support animal welfare and oppose, strongly, animal rights!
- FCUSA has a webpage set up for more information on SB 811: www.maninnature.com/SB811/index.html
- www.leginfo.ca.gov will give you info on SB811 and other bills.
- Check and see if similar efforts to push "not so humane education" bills are popping up in your state. Let us know.
- Pass this info on to your Farm Bureau and other resource providers!
Objections to SB 811:
1. SB 811 promotes an animal rights philosophy under the cover of "compassion and respect for animals and humans."
2. SB 811 attempts to present animal rights as a mainstream belief system by grouping it with such universally held concerns as "human rights violations, genocide, slavery and the Holocaust."
3. SB 811 attempts to place this animal rights philosophy on the same level as important civil rights movements of the past, when in actuality the philosophy of animal rights reduces and restricts the rights of humans.
4. SB 811 would allow an opening for animal and Earth "liberation" propaganda to infiltrate California schools without critical review and under the guide of "compassion."
5. SB 811 requires materials to be used in the schools as "content background" and "resources" for "instructional materials" to promote "compassion and respect" for animals. Such a loose definition could evade rigorous content standards now in place for textbooks used in classrooms, circumventing the process designed to protect our children from propaganda.
6. SB 811 would require schools to source materials from groups offering "humane education" materials. Since all such "humane education" programs are controlled by animal rights groups opposing virtually all use and ownership of animals, California taxpayers would be forced to underwrite such corporations as the National Association for Humane and Environmental Education program, www.nahee.org, a subsidiary of the Humane Society of the United States (assets $90 million, income $60 million), the National Humane Education Society (assets $5 million, income $7 million) or the Institute for Animal Associated Lifelong Learning. We object!
7. SB 811 would fund, with taxpayer dollars, animals rights-focused corporations, offering them free promotion, creating a multi-million dollar conduit for advancing their agenda through our children.
8. SB 811 would require a massive counter campaign by California citizens, businesses and institutions raising animals for food, fiber, research, protection, companionship, etc.
9. SB 811 would promote a curriculum that is anti-science, anti-wildlife management and anti-animal husbandry.
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By Patrick H. Cleveland, Ph.D., retired professor, UCSD School of Medicine
ACTUALLY they never went away. They just regrouped for the present battle.
Eight years ago I wrote a documentary on how the animal rights movement was attempting to introduce its ideology into the American class room ("The Trojan Horse of Animal Protectionism: The Battle over Curriculum"). This article was the culmination of 4 years of undercover investigation. I joined numerous animal rights groups, pretended to be an elementary school teacher, received their class room literature, attended their rallies, obtained audio tapes of their meetings and exchanged information with others who had done the same.
When they attempted to introduce animal rights literature and ideology into the 1994 California Environmental Education Curriculum Guide, we were able to use the facts presented in the "Trojan Horse" article to convince the Governor and the State Secretary of Education to remove them.
Now we have the same cast of organizations, characters and stealth tactics as we did before. The one thing that is new is that they appear to have a powerful political ally in California State Sen. Jack O'Connell (D-San Luis Obispo, Senate District 18). O'Connell is running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction this fall and he is co-author of, and has introduced to California's Senate, SB811 - an act to amend Section 51226.3 of the Education Code, relating to curriculum.
What remains to be seen is whether O'Connell has been duped by the animal rights movement or is a disciple of animal rights.
Make A Difference This Fall!
ARE YOU READY to vote this fall? Are you registered to vote? If not, call your County Registrar of Voters.
Do you know the candidates? If not, go to a fundraiser or town hall meeting and listen. Hold a coffee for a candidate.
Going to be out of town at election time? Order an absentee ballot and vote from home.
But do vote! Democracy is run by those who show up. Show up this fall and make a difference.
Animal Rights Endorsements
"HUMANE" USA PAC, run by animal rightists, is supporting the following politicians in this November's elections. If your rep is on this list, seriously take a look at supporting the "other guy."
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
www.humaneusa.org/endorse/top_legislators.htm
Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY)
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Rep. David Bonior (D-MI)
Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR)
Rep. Peter Deutsch (D-FL)
Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA)
Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA)
Rep. Ben Gilman (R-NY)
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
Rep. Jerry Kleczka (D-WI)
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA)
Rep. George Miller (D-CA)
Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ)
Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT)
Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ)
Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY)
SENATORS
www.humaneusa.org/endorse/2002_reelection.htm
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE)
Max W. Cleland (D-GA)
Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Tom Harkin (D-IA)
John F. Kerry (D-MA)
Carl Levin (D-MI)
Jack Reed (D-RI)
Robert Smith (R-NH) (Given awards from PeTA TWICE!)
Robert Torricelli (D-NJ)
John W. Warner (R-VA)
Paul Wellstone (D-MN)
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