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Carrie Underwood

jodywy

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Carrie Underwood donates $200k to the The HSUS...lashing out against fans?
Sunday, 13 December 2009 22:21
Share 209Yesterday I found a post that Carrie Underwood donated $200,000 to the Humane Society of the United States. Her fans are saying, "it's for neutering and stuff", but a simple Google search would show: it's not. Miss Underwood just handed over a ton of coin to help the largest Animal Rights Activist organization one Earth fight Farmers and Ranchers and anyone else that has an interest in animals.

What is the HSUS?
"Despite the words “humane society” on its letterhead, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is not affiliated with your local animal shelter. Despite the omnipresent dogs and cats in its fundraising materials, it’s not an organization that runs spay/neuter programs or takes in stray, neglected, and abused pets. And despite the common image of animal protection agencies as cash-strapped organizations dedicated to animal welfare, HSUS has become the wealthiest animal rights organization on earth.

HSUS is big, rich, and powerful, a “humane society” in name only. And while most local animal shelters are under-funded and unsung, HSUS has accumulated $113 million in assets and built a recognizable brand by capitalizing on the confusion its very name provokes. This misdirection results in an irony of which most animal lovers are unaware: HSUS raises enough money to finance animal shelters in every single state, with money to spare, yet it doesn’t operate a single one anywhere.

Instead, HSUS spends millions on programs that seek to economically cripple meat and dairy producers; eliminate the use of animals in biomedical research labs; phase out pet breeding, zoos, and circus animal acts; and demonize hunters as crazed lunatics. HSUS spends $2 million each year on travel expenses alone, just keeping its multi-national agenda going"
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm?oid=136

"We have to wonder: With a $100 million annual budget and $200 million in the bank, doesn’t HSUS already have enough cash to throw its PETA-inspired weight around? After all, it’s not like HSUS’s bottom line is burdened by, say, contributing any more than 4 percent of its budget to the real “humane societies” that operate hands-on dog and cat shelters."
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/h/4034-sucker-can-you-spare-a-dime-for-hsus

Onto the oversized cheque for 200k....

Farmers Aren't too happy:
"Instead of donating that money to charities that could help people, especially during the Christmas season, she gave it to the richest animal right organization on the planet. She gave it to a group that uses more than 95% of it’s budget for travel and lobbying against family farmers and ranchers. She may play country music, but she forgot long ago about the country she grew up in."
http://advocatesforag.blogspot.com/2009/12/carrie-underwood-consider-hero-of-hsus.html


"One of Pacelle’s first acts as HSUS’s new chief executive was to send a memo to all HSUS staffers articulating his vision for the future. HSUS’s new “campaigns section,” Pacelle wrote, “will focus on farm animals.”"
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm?oid=136

The Hunters and Anglers aren't too happy:
"Carrie Underwood has decided to use her talents to benefit an organization dedicated to destroying the rights of thousands of her fans,"
http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/whitetails/2009/03/discussion-topic-carrie-underwood-and-humane-society

"It`s sad to see a country western star giving money to a group like this. It`s safe to say that the majority of her fans are outdoorsmen/hunters/fishermen.
We urge you to tell as many people as you can about Carrie Underwood and to stop buying her albums and supporting her. When you support her you`re also supporting the HSUS."
http://www.huntersagainstpeta.com/carrie-underwood-gives-200-grand-to-the-hsus

And the Rodeo Industry isn't too happy:
"Don't support those who want to stop our way of life! RT @TroyHadrick: Underwood donated $200K to #HSUS. http://bit.ly/8fIHDD "
http://twitter.com/rodeolivestock/status/6582416158

"Carrie might want to consider who is more likely to support her music by buying concert tickets and CD's. I can almost guarantee Ms. Underwood that the fans who support rodeo and eat meat are going to help make her living. Not the Animal Rights Thugs."
http://www.theharryrowellfamily.org/CarrieUnderwoodantirodeo.htm

And why wouldn't they be. Direct from the HSUS Website:


"...The HSUS opposes rodeos..."
http://www.humanesociety.org/about/policy_statements/statement_animals_research_entertainment_competition.html

even general Equitation: jumping, racing is in their sights:
"...The HSUS does not oppose all horse racing or all horse shows; however, we do oppose a variety of practices that cause unnecessary suffering or undue risks to horses. These include the use of drugs for non-therapeutic purposes to enable injured or disadvantaged animals to race, the racing of young animals whose bones and bodies have not matured sufficiently, the use of goads and whips, the soring of show horses, over-breeding, and other activities that cause unnecessary distress to horses."
http://www.humanesociety.org/about/policy_statements/statement_animals_research_entertainment_competition.html

To summarize, Carrie Underwood donated $200,000 to Animal Activists to continue their fight and cause: lobbying Government to change practices of anything where an animal is involved. The kittys and puppys won't see any Carrie-coin. In an ideal world the HSUS would do away with the lap dog she carries around, and tell her own family that their ranch is overcrowded (ranchers in Checotah, Oklahoma according to Wikipedia).

Though Underwood tries to be a cross-over artist, her roots are Country. The genre is the credo of those in the Rural Lifestyle: Farmers, Ranchers, Western Riders, Rodeo-Types, Hunters, Anglers. Her gesture lashes out at a major portion of her own fan base. Too bad Underwood didn't Google.
 

hopalong

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jingo2 said:
You don't want anyone telling you how to spend your money......why get in a lather on how she spends hers?

Because IDIOT, when how someone spends their money in a way that possibly affects my livelihood I can and Will worry about it and get in a lather. :mad:

The onoly reason for your post was to take a shot at Tam, or anyother woman that posts here, you are so transparent kolo :D

kolo=jingo :D
 

jingo2

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hopalong said:
jingo2 said:
You don't want anyone telling you how to spend your money......why get in a lather on how she spends hers?

Because IDIOT, when how someone spends their money in a way that possibly affects my livelihood I can and Will worry about it and get in a lather. :mad:

The onoly reason for your post was to take a shot at Tam, or anyother woman that posts here, you are so transparent kolo :D

kolo=jingo :D



Ahhhh...where's the Name Calling Police right now???? Hmmmm....

Mr. " Ed" from Arizona....and I understand you have several poster names...... you are a person with a strange obsession .
 

hopalong

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jingo2 said:
hopalong said:
jingo2 said:
You don't want anyone telling you how to spend your money......why get in a lather on how she spends hers?

Because IDIOT, when how someone spends their money in a way that possibly affects my livelihood I can and Will worry about it and get in a lather. :mad:

The onoly reason for your post was to take a shot at Tam, or anyother woman that posts here, you are so transparent kolo :D

kolo=jingo :D



Ahhhh...where's the Name Calling Police right now???? Hmmmm....

Mr. " Ed" from Arizona....and I understand you have several poster names...... you are a person with a strange obsession .

No stranger than your obsession! A woman posting as a man! kolo=jingo, or was you really a man posting as a woman when you were kolo, allie or lulu :wink: :wink:

lol the usage of my name and state is OLD NEWS :D :D :D
 

jodywy

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Remeber what happen to the Dixi Chicks and that gal from Canada, they were on the radio then they were gone....
 

Tam

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jingo2 said:
You don't want anyone telling you how to spend your money......why get in a lather on how she spends hers?

Let me put it to you as nice as I can, she can do anything she wants with her money but when her fan base of which I dare say live off the land since she sings COUNTRY AND WESTERN realize how she spends their hard earned money after they buy her concert tickets and CD's, her managers and all the people that work for her are going to be the one in a lather. As I would think donating to an organization that is out to destroy her fan bases way of life is not a good career move on her part or the part of her managers and employees.

Just ask Alberta born k.d. LANG about what happen to her Country and Western career when she hit the trificta by announcing she was a gay vegan animal activist. Her name was everyday chatter on the prairies and you could not turn the radio on without hearing her (kind of like Carrie now :wink:) But because she thought she could spend her money anyway she felt and nothing would happen now it's " k.d. who, :? oh is she even still alive I haven't heard about her is a very long time" :( :wink:

Carrie has not hit the trificta like k.d. did. She is a vegetarian no big deal BUT animal activist that is a totally different story. But hey she can spend her money any way her little heart wants but she and her managers better be willing to pay the CONSEQUENCES. :wink:
 

I Luv Herfrds

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Here's a thought for ya jingo. She could have made 10 local shelters very HAPPY with a donation straight to them. Or even 20 shelters.
That money she donated now will be used against us and will nOT help a single animal.

I didn't care that she was a vegetarian, but supporting a group that put people out of business because they didn't think a chicken had enough room in a cage is just plain wrong.
They are coming after us next. Get it now?
 

Tam

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I Luv Herfrds said:
Here's a thought for ya jingo. She could have made 10 local shelters very HAPPY with a donation straight to them. Or even 20 shelters.
That money she donated now will be used against us and will nOT help a single animal.

I didn't care that she was a vegetarian, but supporting a group that put people out of business because they didn't think a chicken had enough room in a cage is just plain wrong.
They are coming after us next. Get it now?

Jingy will never get it, it is a left mindset that prevents it. :wink: :roll:

We can only hope Carrie will spend another $200,000 to support the food bank after her first $200,000 puts actual human beings out of work. :x
 

MsSage

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Why get in a lather? When a performer is trying to SELL to a certain group of people then give the money they recieved from that group to another group that is diametrically opposite that tends to cause the first group to STOP buying what the performer has to offer. The first group feels like they have been betrayed.
 

I Luv Herfrds

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Let's not foget the FFA convention where she played and around 500 members including the FFa president stood up and walked out!

that should have told us something then.
 

Faster horses

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I was just going to mention that, ILH, but you beat me to it.

At the time it was said that whoever booked her for the FFA
convention didn't look into her very good. She wasn't a good pick
to entertain FFA youth...
 

Liveoak

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Odds are, Carrie was pretty clueless about all HSUS activities. It's my understanding that Carrie was enamored with "adopt a pet" message that HSUS puts out.

And yes, she should be able to spend her money however she wants and accept the consequences.

Unfortunately, there were not a lot of other entertainers to choose from for when the convention was being planned. Keith Urban? Drunk or stoned. How about Madonna? :lol2:

Carrie was hired for entertainment and for no other reason. Any officials waking out during her performance set a poor example for the kids who enjoyed the show.
 
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Anonymous

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A poopr example? What? They taught the kids that its ok to stand up for what you believe in. They taught them that when someone does something detrimental to your way of life and how you provide for your family, you don't have to set quietly by. Miss Underwood is free to spend her money any way she chooses. The rest of us are free to make sure that it isn't our money supporting her causes. You are more than welcome to sit idly by why farmers and ranchers stand up against so many different attacks on our way of life. But when they drive the last family run operation out of business, don't ask what you can do. It'll be too damn late. Me, I'm goin down swingin!!!
 

Tam

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Standing up and walking out in protest to what someone does against our way of life is not a poor example it is the freedom we all have if done LEGALLY. A poor example is teachers calling in sick, closing down schools and being seen on national TV getting fake doctors slips so they don't get fired for illegally leaving school to attend a protest against something the Majority party campaigned on and were elected to do.

Carrie needs to see people walking out in protest and not buying her CD's as nothing smartens a person up faster than the sight of the back of somebody walking out. She needs a hit to her ego and pocketbook to prove to her her talent only has value when someone is willing to pay to listen to her.
 

I Luv Herfrds

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Liveoak you may want to know that the President of the FFA at the time was a young woman. I may not have her age correct but she was not over the age of 25. FH do you remember her age?
She told them that if they brought in underwood she would get up and leave because of her support to peta and hsus.
She asked other FFA members to leave with her.
What do you know 500 other members agreed with her and left.
I think she set an awesome example. we will not support an entertianer who supports groups that want to put us out of business.

Yeah underwood can spend her money anywhere she wants, but it also means I won't be buying any of her cd's or songs. It also means that if NASCAR has her there I will let them know my displeasure. i will not call my radio stations to request her songs. She will not be invited to sing at any rodeo either.
Words out, she just lost a huge fan base, may as well go to the pop charts.
 

Liveoak

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I completely understand what all of ya'll are saying! However, Carrie went there as an entertainer, not as a protester of the FFA. If she is so against the beef industry, as many of you have alluded, why did she accept the invitation? Why did she not make an anti-beef, pro-HSUS speech up on stage? If the the President of the FFA was really a young woman or young man, then you have made my point! Ignorance. Ignorance of understanding why Carrie supported the HSUS in the first place. I would guess that Carrie herself is ignorant of the full scale of HSUS activities. The majority of our population believes that the HSUS is nothing more than an organization that saves unwanted pets! I think Carrie is part of that population and to walk out on her performance when she was there to entertain as hired, is a very poor example to set for the other kids. A knee jerk reaction to a bunch a bozos running around handing out flyers during the entertainment to get everyone riled up.

I'm sure, by now, that Carrie, has learned a little more about the HSUS and hope that she adjusts accordingly. Keep in mind she grew up in a area of farmers and her family raised cattle. Carrie did not intentionally go out to hurt farmers or ranchers. You know it and I know it. She needs to look deeper into organizations before supporting them and young kids with the title of President need to look a little deeper too, before slamming someone.
 
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