a k c of its revenue model registers dogs and registers litters so it's involved transactional relationship with those breeders and obviously the ones producing the most dogs are the largest scale breeders so why is it going to crack down on those large scale breeders and sacrifice the

revenue from a rigorous program that stops people from confining animals denying them vet care exposé them to extremes of even cold they're going to lose revenue the american kennel club prides itself on being the only purebred registry in the united states with an ongoing routine kennel inspection program with a dedicated team of field inspectors casey says that it inspects kennels but they don't make any of those inspection records available. they say that they've got rigorous standards but they really don't announce what those standards are real terms they say that they kick people out but we don't really have a comprehensive record of when they're doing that or what the consequences are even if they can still keep breathing and they can still keep operating so what's the value of their inspections program there in force and efforts for all we know are

completely meaningless we don't know. what they even inspect for when they go into these facilities because they don't make their inspection records public quite frankly if they were meaningful inspections there would be no reason not to make them public. while the a k c boasts of a rigorous inspection program in 2011 only $1500000.00 of their $59000000.00 in revenue was spent to employ just 9 inspectors across the entire united states. big. is a group that says it's the dogs champion but in practical terms is consistently leading the fight against efforts to establish humane dog breeding standards in the states at the federal level. over $5000.00 kennel inspections last year. the american kennel club. we make all this possible

because you make us possible. just or your dog the only us registry that matters is in a.g.c. dot org and we're ever we advance that sort of legislation radical not far reaching just basic fundamental anything that a pet owner would think is a minimal standard of care the casey opposes it since 2009 the a k c as opposed to over 100 different bills regulations ordnances the protect dogs in 2012 alone the a k c opposed to nebraska state bill that would require commercial breeders to have regular on site visits by a veterinarian a louisiana state bill that would prohibit all dog owners from stacking crates a rhode island state bill that the a k c deemed dangerous that would make it unlawful for dog owners to keep

a dog confined in a pen. age or other shelter for more than 14 hours a proposed ordinance in shelby county tennessee that would make it a violation to leave a companion animal unattended in a vehicle for more than one hour when the temperature is above 70 degrees or below 35 degrees why is the american killed close to dogs best friend opposing this legislation that says that once either you've got to have a vet examine these dogs or you can't breathe them every single cycle or you can't have more than 50 breeding females at an operation why would a group pose that well they were there because they're making money from those large scale operations. while the public does not have access to a k c inspection reports many pet stores across the united states emphasize to their potential customers that their facilities are a k.c. approved and inspected one such company is pet land the largest chain of pet stores

selling puppies in the united states almost petland are independently owned and operated the company's relationship with the a k c is a central focus in nearly every store. it's not unusual to see a dog that's a case a registered in a pet store. a casey could be targeting this major distribution channel saying we're not going to endorse pet stores if we see our dogs in those stores because we don't feel that is a good means by which a dog is being raced. and unfortunately had not taken that position. where your thoughts were. going through. so i thought that. was really done. anything that's not the case in. the. us. i actually bought my 1st dog from pathway and in my head i was saved. that dog

from the cage only because it was way too big for the small cage it was in there was poop and he just likes sake and i went back to visit and visit and visit well that is very pushy if you've ever been in a paddling and they want you to buy the dog no matter what and you know they give you all these options i would visit the dog it just started me looking for the cage and i code you want to go to a puppy play room and then they'd give you a toy to get to play with this dog and you started falling in love with the dog and then you're broke and so they're like here's a credit card if you will help you pay for the dog and he would really love to go home with you and so they're trying to play on your emotions and on your pocketbook your reasoning apparently in store with your family and you can help. you. through your family and now maybe you are asking yourself where did this come from let's take a look at the journey when puppies make the right at our store. while pet

land maintains that it does not purchase from substandard breeders there's no doubt that the vast majority of puppies sold in their stores come from large scale commercial kennels where the parents of those puppies will spend their whole lives in a cage. 2009 the humane society of the united states released an exhaustive investigation into shipment over 3 months of more than $15000.00 puppies across the country the report determined that 95 percent of the puppies in pet land stores come from large scale commercial kennels and i work at a gym right next to a pet land and i see it all the time and i even stopped and said you know even to a young couple you know with kids hey do me a favor before you go in there you know google puppy males we know are popular as i said why are you going to buy a dog. you know rescues that have puppies right now what are you looking for a lot of the dogs that are purchased in pet stores we we end up with them because the families can afford their medical care they have some births

a factor some cry. problem or worms or parvo or anything that a piece animals can pick up in the actual mill and they always seem to be you know we can state always most of the puppies are coming from this large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold in pet stores so when you go into a pet store and you see that beautiful little puppy that's a jumping out and or really wants the attention from you most people have no idea that the mother and father are back somewhere any factory farm type a setting where it can be horrendous it's not just pet lamb franchises they get the vast majority of their inventory from the primary states for puppy mills independent pet stores choose to seek out these same states a stark example of the supply chain leads directly from holmes county ohio to a single pet store in patterson new jersey. petite pups inspection reports obtained

by ohio voters for companion animals show that in 2012 over 300 puppies from puppy mills in holmes county were sold wholesale to d. and g. only one reason would seemingly compel the owner of d n g to seek out breeders located over 7 hours away the price for breeders simply selling to a pet shop that's not about placing that animal with a family for the rest of the life that's really about the money have served our puppy mill puppy it's because a reputable breeder somebody who cares about their animals and wants to know where they're going and any breeder that is in it for the love of dogs and they they love what they're doing they're good breeder they're going to have as many questions for you as you have for them no good reputable breeder will sell a dog on the internet or sell a dog to a broker to sell to a pet store that's not going to a good breeder or one of those who you are you always have to go and see. the

parents of the dog that you're purchasing if a breeder does not want you to see the conditions that the parents are living in they're almost guaranteed it's a puppy mill. this is largely a marketing sort of enterprise were people can register the murderers the puppies and you get the halo effect that this is in any case the register dollars or litter when in reality it has no practical meaning when it comes to animal welfare they see papers mean absolutely nothing you know and when you come push comes to shove a hasty when they're backed into o'connor was and as i said do with humaneness or the quality of the dog only means who the mother and the father is there are in favor of breeding dogs and the more dogs that are bred the more money they make if

those dogs are registered with the case a for years and years and years in fact even to this day registration income from registration fees and puppies are subsidizing the dog shows that the a hasty puts on because the registration fees for dog shows don't we the amount of money for the expenses of putting them on so historically they have always subsidized their dog shows for registry fees so this is why they're going to see enough of their own money and that's what i always say when people go to the westminster dog show go in there knowing that this show has been subsidized by the croly of puppy mills because the a c. will not stop papering dogs from commercial dog breeders and they oppose legislation when you go to improve the standards of care. 2010 missouri had an estimated 3000 commercial dog breeders and was the largest supplier of puppies to pet stores across the country the nearly 6500 breeders with the u.s.d.a. license was more than the next 3 states combined in. the hopes of improving the

lives of dogs living in missouri puppy mills national and state animal welfare organizations focused on a ballot initiative that would later become known as proposition be over 190000 signatures from missouri residents were collected and the measure made it to the ballot in the 2010 election. israel media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. the isolation could be achieved. by you going the right way or are you being led so. what is true what is faith.

in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maid in the shallows. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok to suffer actually it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids that ask and as a parent. i can come up with lots of arguments there's a lot of conflict within the game between the close of the conflict i would say over balls around money and most of that money is made. close one on each other. each other is good business the state of california alone makes 6000000000 dollars

a year of prison couplets just to get some 20 a life where. you don't care and cares about your so you don't care about anything . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory and dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very creative. use it. prop b. was something that was in the works for many years because missouri is the puppy mill capital of the united states. the simply sought to impose

humane breeding standards and limits on the size of the puppy mills you know when i started out here paying for all this stuff and literature and pictures of puppy mills. after 2 weeks i just forgot all that literature was a copy of prop because it wasn't that people wanted to support the bills or call the dogs it was says this is it if i did other things it was a campaign of fear and misinformation fear that he was going to mysteriously morph into a ban on all of animals and agriculture you know they said that this would affect farm animals you know it and then of course when they were confronted on it in the wall they said well it's a slippery slope but there was still continue to go into rural areas and convince everybody that this was going to shut down the family farm and it just created mass hysteria and it made a really difficult campaign it didn't deal with cattle pigs it india with chickens

it in the old any other species the language was explicit and anyone who's a 1st year law student could say with definitive precision that it just applied to dogs. it's basically a way to one of the dominoes in what i call the line of dominoes out here you know women aiding all of domesticated animals you know dogs cats and you want to livestock arena forces and so forth and in a ballot measure campaign you don't necessarily need to convince people that your position is right you just need to sow enough confusion so that people maintain the status quo and vote no clothes no way to defend this so instead they want to change the subject to all these other animals that people will respond to an emotional way this isn't really about puppies this is about your skin and your beef and your pork and this group wants to take those off your dinner plate it's about emotional trigger that they're going to they're going to press those buttons to get people to

respond emotionally oh it's basically a form of lying i mean let's just cut to the chase this proposition was about dogs but wants you to think it's about all these other animals because that will scare the hell that. really is an issue for anyone that likes to eat meat protein in their diet thank you very much thank you kelly smith marketing and commodities director for missouri farm bureau much more to come on this and other issues as we broadcast from the missouri farm bureau offices here in jefferson city missouri stay with us it's half time on average. interestingly my wife and i had made a plan. we settle we put on a piece of paper what our dream of a farm. search i will show this. so that's where we. lived our lives here pretty much happy lee we

raised our family we raised our kids we felt very comfortable here. we didn't feel threatened at all you know and then. and i would have never at that time suggested to you that clean air was a vital important thing in my life. they were going to raise hogs ok and at the time i did not know how many hogs they were going to raise and it turned out that now they raise $80000.00 hogs and 3 miles more than miles. the farm land food facility in milan missouri is owned by smithfield foods the largest hog and pork processor in the world with revenues exceeding $13000000000.00 in 2013. the operation north of me is called green hills. there isn't a single pig in there that ever sees the green hills there isn't a single pig down there that ever sees the valley ok so these are wonderful names

but in this are these factory buildings where these hogs are housed in these big barns with little fresh air with no sunlight with little movement with no grass no nothing you hear the name valley view and you think all little piggy riding on green grass you know just kind of smooching out there living in the sun you don't see that. these are feeder big say in the amounts old weights are just incredible and you sit in your backyard with your family and you eat dinner or you sit outside on a warm summer night and all over sudden this thing rolls in and i were caught in a trespass it just trespasses on your property and in golf's your and it's there in the media just like it's just like if a visitor coming that you have not invited relationship with the missouri farm bureau radically changed when he began to complain about the daily waste in odors

emitting from smithfield foods that tree farm while he assumed the farm bureau would support a local independent farmer against his new corporate neighbor. rolf was left to fight alone. i felt abandoned and also felt that i was working for the wrong organization for for so many years because all of a sudden this operation this organization backed out and it supposedly is a farm organization these supposedly supports individual independent farmers and all of a sudden they were siding with the industry and they are siding with industry to this very day they campaign against prop b. began immediately after it was approved for the ballot at a gathering of the most powerful agricultural forces in missouri at the stinson morrison and hecker law firm in addition to members of the dog breeding industry the meeting included the leadership of the missouri farm bureau the missouri pork producers association and the missouri soybean association at this meeting these

groups agreed to fight prop be in a coordinated effort with the dog breeding industry. 2 front groups emerge from the meeting one which would eventually be called missouri farmers care and the alliance for truth while these front groups seem to have sprung out of thin air it was actually a highly coordinated effort financed largely by corporate agriculture nearly 82 percent of total contributions to missouri farmers care originated from 3 corporate agriculture trade groups and their respective political action committees. the missouri farm bureau the missouri pork producers and the missouri soybean association while the missouri farmers care campaign highlighted the positive role of missouri farmers in society the alliance for truth was focused on

misrepresenting the clear language improper be the majority of the funding for the alliance for truth was funneled through missouri farmers care by the same agricultural to. the groups the trade groups involved represent the interests of their member corporations in missouri these corporations include some of the largest agra businesses in the united states months sent to tyson cargill and smithfield foods while these trade groups used their vast financial resources opposing prop b. the corporations that ultimately provided the majority of the funding for the campaign remained silent simply put without the financial support of corporate agriculture the puppy mills of missouri would not have had the ability to mount the alliance for truth or missouri farmers care which were largely responsible for the opposition to proposition b. and lions for truth that could be for anything you know but they can't call themselves you know friend group in favor of herding dogs so they have to come up

with them their word to just totally distract you from the issue at hand it's not about the dogs it's about liberalism growth of government in rouge and into your life has a proud tradition of dog breeding for hunting home companionship and just best friends to enforce existing law against animal abuse but vote no to the big government liberalism proposition paid for by a life for true mark paterson treasure and they would be fending of those when the thing i mean alliance for truth is literally just a front so there has been a tremendous amount a shocking amount of organized opposition to efforts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding facilities and most of that opposition quite frankly is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries these are groups that have nothing to do with dogs have to do is look at who is funding these fans to see who's really benefiting from them it's not the individual farmers who

man choose who you know may believe in some of the messaging that these groups are putting forward but it's really the major players in big ai with business who are back. and it's the industry why defense that's going on it's not to protect the for the poor rancher i mean those guys are getting screwed i have to stink interest in the future of this farm and the future of this community. corp. their interest is making money their interest is not in the community their interest is not what is being left behind community interest. is 0. crop be very specific it was a bill that he addressed commercial breeding dogs not chickens not cows not pigs but that's what the opposition said that's the misinformation that they gave to people in the state of missouri to scare people it was purely fear tactics on

their part and it really ended up being at the expense of the thousands of dogs that suffer on a daily basis in the state of missouri every signature that put be on the bill was signed by a missouri rosie every boat that has property in the wall was passed by a missouri rosie missourians here and this was not i doubt a state you know they can say no those are the same interests that you know they might have right in the money so we can get the word out that they didn't go to the polls obviously it was missouri residents who voted for this morning you know at this point either soon oh you know as though they're. very. bored by 51 of they have for so became very close fortunately because of those mass hysteria that was just being spread in the rural areas and they really do people really believe i mean i talked to one on one day they really believe this was going

to close down the farms. thank you for joining us all i hear on missouri governor jay nixon will he find a bill changing proposition b. even though voters already approved it. be stirred the emotions of missourians on both sides of the issue but it was ultimately approved by 51 percent of voters the thought of altering it is an outrage and the law's supporters essentially a couple of 100 lawmakers have come to treated their judgment for the judgment of about a 1000000 voters nancy weller says she can't bear to see another dog pulled out of a puppy mill she and more than a 1000000 other missouri voters pushed for prop be the very bill lawmakers are now working to change the ink wasn't drawing on the formalizing of the final election results where state lawmakers in missouri were going to repeal several of them if they had bills to review in its entirety immediately after the vote of the people you know we're not out to put these people out of business for say we just

want them to comply with good standards of care but instead they wanted to repeal the whole thing they threw it all out it was just 5 months after missouri voters approved a tough new puppy mill law the law is changing they even changed the name of the long puppy mill cruelty back to the canine coolly prevention act and it does remove the breeding dog limit and some requirements for the living conditions of animals it is a constitutional process and when citizens decide they can do that the legislature should defer to the will of the people how do you run a government when the voters go to the polls they will and it's just ignored there is an election that's the way things run and i have to think what is best for these you know is you know to swallow your pride and sit down and work out something or i'm going to take the high road and and say no no we're taking anything we want all of us know you have to do what's best for the you.

so the politicians have basically stuck the american public with the bellotti to negotiate for drugs and both parties who are financed very heavily by the pharmaceutical industry have done this so when your own people vote they should look at how much does this politician get from the power pharmaceutical industry. and the going to. sway the vote for the food. bank itself mukti if i. was in this way got to go through hard not to think of the other dismiss the work and i don't mr right then if. this is

the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights his way. through or you can get out of this bill frist would have been called believe it at the time of. what i think is this is the fund that is a compliment. on

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