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 companys relationship with the a k c is a central focus in nearly every store. Its not unusual to see a dog thats a case a registered in a pet store. A casey could be targeting this major Distribution Channel saying were not going to endorse pet stores if we see our dogs in those stores because we dont feel that is a good means by which a dog is being raced on and unfortunately have not taken a position. Where your thoughts will. Be on. So i thought. This is worth reading. I think its not easy. I actually bought my 1st dog from pathway and in my head i was saving 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 a and i went back to visit and visit and visit well there it is very pushy if youve ever been in a pathway 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 you get to play with this dog and you started falling in love with the dog and then youre broke and so theyre like heres a credit card if you will help you pay for the dog and he would really love to go home with you and so theyre 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 lets take a look at the journey when puppies make before writing our story. While pet land maintains that it does not purchase from substandard breeders theres 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. In 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 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 do you look at 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 birth defect or some chronic problem or. Parvo or anything that at least animals can pick up in the actual milk and they always seem to be you know we can state always most of the puppies that are coming from these 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 thats 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 its 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. M. G. To seek out breeders located over 7 hours away the price for breeders simply selling to a pet shop thats not about placing that animal with the family for the rest of the life thats really about the money. Because a reputable breeder somebody who cares about their animals and wants to know where theyre going and any breeder that is in it for the love of dogs and they they love what theyre doing theyre good breeder theyre going to have as many questions for you as you have for them and. Oh good reputable breeder will sell a dog on the internet or sell a dog to a broker to sell to a pet store thats not going to happen a good breeder or want to know who you are you always have to go and see even the parents of the dog that youre purchasing if a breeder does not want you to see the conditions that the parents are living in theyre almost guaranteed its 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 isnt a cheesy register dollars or litter when in reality it has no practical meaning when it comes to Animal Welfare a hasty papers mean absolutely nothing you know and when you come push comes to shove a hasty when theyre backed into oconnor was a mess and theres 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 income from registration fees and puppies are subsidizing the dog shows that the a hasty puts on because the registration fees for dog shows dont meet 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 theyre going to see enough of their own money and thats what i always say when people go to the Westminster Dog Show go in there knowing that this show has been subsidized by the cruelty of puppy mills because the a c. Will not stop papering dogs from commercial dog breeders and they oppose legislation when you go through the same as a fair. 2010 missouri had an estimated 3000 commercial dog breeders and. I was the largest supplier of puppies to pet Stores Across the country the nearly 1600 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. 00 signatures from missouri residents were collected and the measure made it to the ballot in the 2010 election. Live. Lives. Lead. Player. Play. Live live. Live. Live. Live. Oh. Please. Live. So. Slim. Lift. And a very warm welcome to you watching us inside us. Facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark so. They are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real its detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it will always be worth one dog food over another one comparative Shopping Service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results on what they think you should be seeing if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and Fair Election doesnt exist the more we give them the sooner we all. Kinds of financial survival job today with all the Money Laundering 1st to visit this industry to. Get this a good start we have our 3 banks all set up something new something in america something over the Cayman Island to do all these banks are complicit in their kleptocracy. To do some serious Money Laundering ok lets see how we did well weve got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacey old beautiful jewelry and how about. A bill for him that you know what Money Laundering is highly illegal if you watch kaiser of course. Prob b. 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 whether churn pictures of puppy mills things like that after 2 weeks i just forgot all that literature it was a copy of prop because it wasnt that people wanted to support both the bills are cold and the dogs this is this is terry that 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 rearing 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 and showed the wall they said well its a slippery slope but there was still continue to go in a rural areas and convinced 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 didnt deal with cattle deal with pigs it india with chickens it in the old any other species the language was explicit and anyone whos 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 in what i call the line of dominoes out here in eliminating all of domesticated animals you know dogs cats then you go into the livestock arena forces and so forth and in a ballot measure a campaign you dont 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 was 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 isnt 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 its about emotional triggers that theyre going to theyre going to press those buttons to get people to respond emotionally oh its basically a form of lying i mean lets just cut to the chase the way this proposition was about dogs but initially wants you to think its about all these other animals because that will scare the hell it. Really is an issue for anyone to like speak meat protein in their diet kelly 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 its half time on average. Interestingly my wife and i had made a plan for we settle we put on a piece of paper what our dream of a farm was. After a long search i will show this. Match. So thats why were here. We lived our lives here pretty much you know or happy lee we raised our family we raised our kids we felt very comfortable here. We didnt feel threatened at all you know and i mean 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 north of. The 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 north of me is called green hills. There isnt a single pig in there that ever seen as the green hills there isnt a single pig down there that ever sees the valley. 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 grass you know just kind of smooching out there living in the sun you dont see that. These are feeder big sis 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 would call it trespass it just trespass on your property gulfs you and its there in i mean its just like its 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 tree 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 almost sudden this operation this organization backed allen 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 are siding with in this. 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 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. 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 use their vast Financial Resources opposing prop b. The corporations that ultimately provided the majority of the funding for the campaign remained so. Island 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. Alliance for truth that could be for anything you know but they cant call themselves you know friend group in favor of herding dogs so they have to come up with them other word to just totally distract you from the issue at hand its not about the dogs its about liberalism growth of government in rouge and into your life during 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 or proposition paid for by a life for true Mark Paterson treasurer i mean they would be fending of goes with 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 industry these are groups that have nothing to do with dogs have to do is look at who is funding these fans to see who is really benefiting from them its not the individual farmers and manchus who you know may believe in some of the messaging that these groups are putting forward but its really the Major Players and big ai with business who are benefiting and its the industry why defense thats going on is not to protect 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. Truck b. Was very specific it was a bill that he addressed commercial breeding dogs not chickens not cows not pigs but thats what the opposition said thats 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. On the bill was signed by a missouri every vote that passed property and the law was passed by a missouri Rosie Missourians here and this was not i doubt a state you know youve seen all this i would say you just you know they might have righted the money so we can get the word out that they didnt go to the polls obviously it was the sir residents of both of those. Are soon oh you know its no other. One by 51 of the have for so we came very close fortunately because of those mass hysteria that was just being spread in the rural areas and there really do people really believe i mean i talked to him one on one that they really believed this was going to close down the farms going to be a big 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 probably used during the emotions of missourians on both sides of the issue but it was ultimately approved by 51 percent of voters the court of altering it is an outrage and bill was supporters going to only a couple of 100 lawmakers have come to treated their judgment for the judgment of about a 1000000 voters nancy weller says she cant bear to see another dog pulled out of a puppy mill she and more than a 1000000 other missouri voters pushed for prop b. The. Very bill lawmakers are now working to change the ink wasnt drawing on the formalizing of the final Election Results when state lawmakers in missouri were going to repeal several of them. Bills to repeal in its entirety immediately after the vote of the people you know were not out to put these people out of business for sale we just want them to comply with good standards here but instead they wanted to repeal the whole thing they threw it all out it was just 5 months after missouri voters approved a new puppy mill law the law is changing they even changed the name of the long. Act to the canine cruelty prevention act and it does remove the breeding dog limit the requirement 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 its just ignored there is an election thats the way things run and i have to think what is best for these you know as you know to swallow your pride and sit down and work out something or im going to take the high road in and say no no were not taking anything we want to know you have to do whats best for the. Americans seemed to have already lost i think is syria and what it says and this is that. Process as youve got an important factor in this the moment the moment they will not be able to have. These insights about the political process. To the process to the. Election as we said before. 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