Animal Rights Message Landing In Children's Laps
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Animal Rights Message Landing In Children's Laps





Anti-hunting organizations are focusing recruitment efforts on our nation’s young people in hopes of turning them against America’s traditional outdoor heritage.

The National Association for Humane and Environmental Education (NAHEE) is the youth education affiliate of the nation’s leading anti-hunting organization, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). It reaches more than a million school children nationwide through monthly issues of KIND News. The publication instructs young people about issues like “living with wildlife” and there are plans to this fall discuss “humane solutions” to conflicts with beavers.

“NAHEE and the HSUS are slipping their anti-trapping and anti-hunting rhetoric into classrooms,” said U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance President Bud Pidgeon. “The HSUS is in business to end America’s outdoor heritage, but many teachers and others who influence our children don’t realize this threat. They welcome the group’s information into schools.”

American Humane Association (AHA) offers teachers its three-unit Be Kind to Animals humane education curriculum. It encourages children to consider how to be kind to animals and asks them to create an action campaign for animals. Children are also asked to sign a Be Kind to Animals Pledge.

AHA also teaches humane principles to millions of students, grades 4-12, through its Be Kind to Animals and People Too Program.

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) puts the animal rights message into schools through its quarterly AnimaLessons newsletter for teachers. It targets children in kindergarten through 8th grade. In one of its most recent newsletters, the ASPCA encouraged young students to visit its website to find out about animal related legislative issues and encouraged them to write to their legislators regarding such issues.

“The ASPCA urges website visitors to support anti-hunting and anti-trapping campaigns nationwide,” said Pidgeon. “Sportsmen must not overlook this organization’s attempts to wind the animal rights agenda into America’s classrooms.”

The message is reaching kids who log on to the Internet.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has several age-specific websites such as peta2.com and petakids.com that cater to young people’s interests. The group begins with animal welfare messages for the young people, but then moves to recruit children into animal rights activists who are willing to vandalize, burglarize and terrorize to make a statement for the animal rights movement.

PETA does not deny marketing towards children. The group’s Vice President Dan Matthews told Fox News Channel in 2003, “Our campaigns are always geared towards children and they always will be.”

Take Action! Children are a prime target, impressionable and accepting. Teachers, parents and adults must keep track of the animal rights propaganda that is making its way into our schools as “humane education.” If your child brings home a newsletter or worksheet provided by an anti-hunting group, contact your child’s teacher and principal. Let them know that the materials promote organizations that aim to destroy America’s outdoor heritage and wildlife conservation. If you are unsure whether the information is related to an anti-hunting organization, please contact the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance at (614) 888-4868 or e-mail info@ussportsmen.org.
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