CCF has produced several advertising campaigns alleging various improprieties by HSUS and accusing HSUS of misrepresenting itself to supporters and donors. CCF carries out its attacks on HSUS via advertisements and direct mail campaigns targeting HSUS donors and supporters. Rachel Maddow to Michael Pollan have characterized CCF as an astroturfing group. Mexico and Brazil stand out among the rest because they have the largest area, population and number of species. In 2014, The USDA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) criticized the Service for a number of issues including its failure to efficiently allocate resources and its failure to administer appropriate fines for animal welfare violations among other issues. Critics including the CCF, AR-HR, and Nathan Winograd have accused HSUS of misleading donors into thinking that their donations directly support local animal shelters, when HSUS has no affiliation with or control over local humane societies. We are an animal protection charity that works to ensure that all animals are protected.Your support helps create a better world for animals. An 18-year-member of the CAP staff, Jessica Marks, director of operations & chief operating officer, said that what’s improved over time is the community and public outpouring of support. Each director serves as a volunteer and receives no compensation for service.

Executive Director Brian Klippenstein has singled out HSUS as a target of his organization’s political activities, and as treasurer of Protect the Harvest PAC he and Lucas campaign against candidates the two groups consider aligned with HSUS. The Humane Society Legislative Fund is a 501(c)(4) organization formed in 2004. The group supports the passage of animal protection laws at the state and federal levels, educates the public about animal protection issues, and supports humane candidates for office. Protect the Harvest is a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization, and in 2014 formed a Political Action Committee to elect and defeat candidates for office. The Committee issues Concluding Observations-essentially formal recommendations for the state. According to the « Pennies for Charity » report issued by the New York State Attorney General, of the $1.95 million raised in 2008 by fundraisers, only 5.29% went to HSUS. Through its efforts in the United States, and globally through its affiliate Humane Society International, HSUS has helped to achieve prohibitions on shark finning in state and national legislatures and through administrative action here and abroad. The Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association (HSVMA) was formed in 2008 to encompass both veterinary advocacy and veterinary clinical services work conducted by the HSUS, and to provide a political alternative to the American Veterinary Medical Association for veterinarians of a strong animal welfare orientation.

In 2014, Charity Navigator issued a « Donor Advisory » about HSUS, temporarily removing its rating of the organization. Shortly after Wayne Pacelle joined HSUS, he stated in an interview with the Animal People newspaper that his goal was to build « a National Rifle Association of the animal rights movement ». The IHT describes HSUS as the « least radical » of animal rights groups. A nonprofit, charitable organization, HSUS is funded almost entirely by private membership dues, contributions, foundation grants, and bequests. Citizens for Animal Protection is a non-profit organization, founded in 1972, which shelters, rescues and places homeless animals for adoption with loving families. Experts on non-profit law question CCF’s non-profit status. Non-profit groups operated by Mr. Berman’s public relations firm paid Berman and Company $15 million from 2008 to 2010, an arrangement that may violate Internal Revenue Service rules that prohibit executives from profiting off of the non-profit entities they run. It releases a bouquet of volatile chemicals, which in some cases have been shown to induce neighboring plants to pre-emptively step up their own chemical defenses and in other cases to lure in predators of the beasts that may be causing the damage to the plants. According to a 2008 paper, neuroscience explanations of psychological phenomena currently have a « seductive allure », and « seem to generate more public interest » than explanations which do not contain neuroscientific information.

The Food Security Act also established an information center at the National Agricultural Library, the Animal Welfare Information Center, to assist researchers in searching scientific literature for alternatives to animal use. The attack was credited by the acting chancellor of UCLA as helping to shape the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Certain cases could be exempted from such definitions unless they used live animal in substantial numbers. With this underlying issue, this ethical theory cannot be applied to all cases. Another reason to be uneasy is that Citizenship Theory accepts positive law as a sufficiently just source of criteria for citizenship in, mobility within, and excludability from the territories of particular de facto states. Animal law issues encompass a broad spectrum of approaches – from philosophical explorations of the rights of animals to pragmatic discussions about the rights of those who use animals, who has standing to sue when an animal is harmed in a way that violates the law, and what constitutes legal cruelty.