"The AKC represents (and is composed of) dog clubs. The dog clubs have members who are constituents of the local office holders. The AKC assists clubs in focusing on issues and may step in, but there are many hundreds of bills at the state level across the country and even more at the local level. They cannot address them all.

The state federations and local clubs have to pick up the ball and carry it forward and they can only do that through the active participation of their membership. In too many cases, the members either don't care or won't make the effort to let their legislators know of their position. More individual action, through local groups, is needed to have any real influence."    

Here is one such petition that is worth the bother of registering and signing.

5,000 Signatures are needed by October 22, 2011 Total number of signatures on this petition was on October 16, 2011 was 3630.

 WHY are we allowing less than 1% (vegans) or 3.5% (HSUS' inflated number of members) to dictate animal or animal use policies to 99% (or 96.5%) of the nation?   Why are we scurrying to react to their every announcement, every piece of legislation that this very tiny minority brings forth.

Available research puts the the percentage of Vegans at around 1% of the USA population.  (2008: 0.5% of the population)

Has this happened with any other religious group in the U.S. where a whole life style was being compelled to change to appease a minority of less than 1% or at most an exaggerated 3.5%?

Pondering...

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