Expose them to extremes of being told theyre going to lose revenue the American Kennel Club prides itself on being the only purebred registry in the United States with an ongoing routine kennel Inspection Program with a dedicated team of field inspectors casey says that it inspects kennels but they dont make any of those inspection records available. They say that theyve got rigorous standards but they really dont announce what those standards are real terms they say that they kick people out we dont really have a comprehensive record of when theyre doing that or what the consequences are even if they can still keep breathing and they can still keep operating so whats the value of their Inspections Program there in force and efforts for all we know are completely meaningless we dont know what they even inspect for when they go into these facilities because they dealt. Their inspection records public quite frankly if they were meaningful inspections there would be no reason not to make them public. While the a k c boasts of a rigorous Inspection Program in 2011 only 1500000. 00 of their 59000000. 00 in revenue was spent to employ just 9 inspectors across the entire United States. Big. Is a group that says its the dogs champion but in practical terms is consistently leading the fight against efforts to establish humane dog breeding standards in the states at the federal level. Over 5000. 00 kennel inspections last year. The American Kennel Club. We make all this possible because you make us possible. Just or your dog the only us registry that matters isnt a g. C. Dot org and or ever we advance that sort of legislation radical not far reaching just basic fundamental anything that a pet owner would think is a minimal standard of care the casey opposes it since 2009 the a k c as opposed over 100 different bills regulations ordnances the protect dogs in 2012 alone the a k c opposed to nebraska state bill that would require commercial breeders to have regular on site visits by a veterinarian a Louisiana State bill that would prohibit all dog owners from stacking crates a rhode island state bill that the a k c deemed dangerous that would make it unlawful for dog owners to keep a dog confined in a pen cage or other shelter for more than 14 hours a proposed jordan. Its in Shelby County tennessee that would make it a violation to leave a Companion Animal unattended in a vehicle for more than one hour when the temperature is above 70 degrees or below 35. 00 degrees why is the american till close to dogs best friend opposing this legislation that says that once a year youve got to have a vet examine these dogs or you cant breathe them every single cycle or you cant have more than 50 breeding females at an operation while the group knows that well they were there because theyre making money from those large scale operations. While the public does not have access to a k c inspection reports many pet Stores Across the United States emphasize to their potential customers that their facilities are a casey approved uninspected one such company is pet land the largest chain of pet Stores Selling puppies in the United States while most petland 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. 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. And unfortunately had not taken that position. Where your thoughts were. Certified. So i thought that. Was you really dont like. Anything thats not the case in. The. Us. I actually bought my 1st dog from pet way 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 a. There was poop and he just likes a and i went back to visit and visit and visit well that is very pushy if youve ever been in a paddling 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 and 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 cant help but fall in love. For your family and now maybe you are asking yourself where did this puppy 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. 2009 the Humane Society of the United States released an exhaustive investigation into shipments 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 males we know are popular as us so 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 cant afford their medical care they have some birth a factor some chronic problem or. Parvo or anything that. But these animals can pick up in the actual milk and they always seem to be you know we can state always most of the puppies are coming from this 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 on 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 place seen that animal with a family for the rest of the life thats really about the money pets are happy as are poppies 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 no good reputable breeder will sell a dog or any internet or sell a dog to a broker to sell to a pet store thats not going to a good breeder or one of those who you are you always have to go and see 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 a largely a marketing sort of enterprise were people can register the litters the puppies and you get the halo effect that this isnt a chase scene 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 as i said 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 a case a for years and years and years in fact even to this day registration aint home and registration fees and puppies are subsidizing the dog shows that youre a hasty puts on because the registration fees for dog shows dont mean the amount of money or 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 croly of puppy mills because the a c. Will not stop papering dogs from commercial dog breeders and they oppose legislation when you go to improve the standards of care my 2010 missouri had an estimated 3000 commercial dog breeders and was the largest supplier of puppies to pet Stores Across the country the nearly 6500 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. Im not for decapitating anybody but i am for day capitalizing all the wall street bankers by shifting the center of gravity of money from the dollar and fear to bitcoin and thats perfectly within our purview our scope as global citizens who wish Justice Justice truth free competition and hard money thats still the justice stud matter is that sustainable thats real that doesnt rely on politicians. Felt bananas is to put on a chain on the stone to continue a little sponge thats them. With nothing to do and that it is next to nothing. But i told of the. Local just to. Fill. Me up on that show which there were a lot. Of you put its not just on thoughts the most unusual not among the full not so we steal stuff. Over the. Place ive been arguing for the last decade or so but capitalism crisis is both a structural prices and it is also a crisis of statement youre going to see in a capitalist edge of money and this and democrats did not cause that crisis it only made it they asked we estimate and made and we deal with the whole world and its going to aggravate all of the reds and dimensions of the christ the Health Emergency millenniums good were still going to be left with this dual crisis of structural the structural crisis of the economy and the political crisis of state budget in the seed. Prop 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 turin pictures of puppy mills and things like bad after 2 weeks i just forgot all that literature it was a copy of prop because it wasnt that people wanted to support bobby bills or call the dogs it was is this a stereo that if i did other things it was a campaign of fear and misinformation fear. Be was going to mysteriously morph into a ban on all rearing of animals and agriculture you know they said that this would affect for me 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 they would still continue to go into rural areas and convince everybody that this was going to shut down the family farm and it just created mystery and it made a really Difficult Campaign it didnt deal with cattle deal with pigs it in there 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 you know women aging all of domesticated animals you know dogs cats and you want the livestock arena horses and so forth and into bella Measure 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 clothes no way to defend happiness 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 in your pork and this group wants to take those off your dinner plate its about emotional trigger that theyre going to theyre going to press those buttons to get people to respond emotionally oh its basically a form of lie. I mean lets just cut to the chase may this proposition with about dogs but it is she wants you to think its about all these other am also because that will scare the hell it. Really is an issue for anyone to like speak meat protein in their diet thank you very much thank you kelly smith marketing and commodities director for misery 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 before we settle we put on a piece of paper what our dream of a farm was. After a long search i was showed this far and it matched exactly. So thats why were here. We lived our lives here pretty much you know war happy leave with 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 food 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 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 building where these hogs are how. 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 running on green grass you know just kind of smooching out there living in the sun you dont see that. These are feeder pigs in the amounts awaits 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 were caught in a trespass it just trespass on your property gulfs you and its there and 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 rolf 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 all of a 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 industry to this very day they 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 but 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. 2 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 majorit