rap rap. rap rap rap rap. a k c answers of its revenue model registers dogs and registers litters so it's involved in a transactional relationship with those breeders 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 if 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 in 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 dog's 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 or ordinances that 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. cage 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 a year 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 while the group knows 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 while most pet lands 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 on and unfortunately had not taken that position. were your thoughts were. going through. so i thought. this is really done. anything that's not a disease. that. i actually bought my 1st dog from pathway and in my head i was saying. being 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 doc it just started me looking through the cage and i code you want to go to a puppy play room and then they give you a toy and you 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 we 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 puppy come from let's take a look at the jury when puppies make before writing our story. 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 shipments 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 beef do me a favor before you go in there you know google puppy mills we know are popular as i said why are you going to buy a dog. i 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't afford their medical care they have some births a factor some call. on

a problem or worms or parvo or anything that these 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 animal 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 the 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.m.g. to seek out breeders located over 7 hours away the price for breeders simply selling to a pet shop that's not about place even an animal with a family for the rest of the life that's really about the money had served our puppy mill puppies 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 breed or will sell a dog or any 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 in. even 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 a corner was a mess and there's nothing to 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 they for years and years and years in fact even to this day registration ain't home registration fees and puppies are subsidizing the dog shows that the a hasty puts on because the registration fees for dog shows to me 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 growly of puppy mills because the a c. will not stop papering dogs from commercial dog breeders and they oppose legislation when you go to approve the centers of their. 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. over 190000 signatures from missouri residents were collected and the measure made it to the ballot in the 2010 election.

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probably was something that was in the works for many years because missouri is the puppy mill capital of the united states probably simply sought to impose humane breeding standards and limits on the size of the puppy mills you know what i started out here paying for all this stuff and literature and pictures of puppy mills things i bet after 2 weeks i just forgot all that literature was a copy of prop because it wasn't that people wanted to support puppy mills or call the dogs it was is this a stereotype that if i did other things it was a campaign of fear and misinformation fear. be was going to mysteriously morph into a ban on all rearing of animals and agriculture you know they said that this would

affect farm animals you know and and of course when they were confronted on it and shown the wall they said well it's a slippery slope but there was still continue to go in a room. it convinced everybody that this was going to shut down the family and it just created a mystery and it made a really difficult campaign it didn't deal with. it in deal with chickens it in the old any other species the language was explicit and anyone who was a 1st year law student could say with definitive precision that it just applied to dogs in space a clear way to one of the dominoes and what i call the line of dominoes out here you know women aging all of domesticated animals you know dogs cats and you want the 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 phones 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 chicken and your beef and your pork and this group wants to take those off your dinner plate. 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 it. really is an issue for anyone to like speak 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 for we settle. on a piece of paper what our dream of a farm. and. after a long search i was showed this far and it matched exactly the area. so that's why we're here. we lived our lives here pretty much your knoll happy leave with we raised our family we raised our kids we felt very comfortable here. we didn't feel threatened at all you know and i mean i would have never at that time suggested to you would that clean air was a vitally 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 the miles. of farmland foods 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 northam 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 valleyview and you think all little piggy riding on we grass you know just kind of smooching out there living in the sun you don't see that. these are feeder pigs in the amounts awaits 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 would call it a trespasser it just trespasses on your property and in golf's you. and it's there in i mean it's 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 and odors emitting from smithfield foods that 3 farm while he assumed the farm bureau would support a local independent farmer against his new corporate neighbor. 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 industry and they're siding with industry to this

very day the 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 at 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. to 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 trade groups the trade groups involved represent the interests of their member corporations in missouri these corporations include some of the largest agribusiness is 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 your life missouri 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 of proposition paid for by a life for truth mark paterson treasurer i mean 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's funding these fans to see who's really benefiting from them it's not the individual farmers who matches 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 guy with business who are benefiting 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. you 0.

crop be very specific it was a bill that he dressed 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 beyond the bill was signed by humans or rosie every boat that passed property in the wall was passed by them as a rosy missourians here and this was not i doubt a story you know you've seen all this i was saying it was that you know they might have righted the money so we can get the word out that they didn't go to the polls obviously a business or a residence of openness. to say so when we 1st heard oh you know i was

older we were very very. good. but you want to have percent became very close unfortunately because of this man's hysteria that was just being spread in the rural areas and there really did people really believe i mean i talked to him one on one that they really believe this was going to close down the farms good evening thank you for joining us all eyes are on the very governor jay nixon will he sign a bill changing proposition even though voters already approved it probably 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 outraging the law supporters essentially a couple of 100 lawmakers have something succeeded their judgment for the judgment about a 1000000 voter 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 dry on the formalizing of the final election results when state lawmakers in missouri said we're going to repeal probably several of them if they have a bill through repeal probably in its entirety immediately have to go to the people and we're not out to put these people out of business per se 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 ridiculous 5 months after missouri voters approved a tough new puppy mill law the law is changing they even changed the name of the law from the puppy mill cruelty act to the canine cruelty prevention act and it does remove the 50 breeding dogs limit and some requirements for the living conditions of animals it is a constitutional process and when citizens the side 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 in something that is just

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