A k c answers of its revenue model registers dogs and registers litters so its involved in a transactional relationship with those breeders and obviously the ones producing the most dogs are the largest still breeders so why is it going to crack down on those large scale breeders and sacrifice the revenue from a rigorous program that stops people from confining animals denying them vet care or exposing them to extremes of even cold if 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. Ols but they dont make any of those inspection records available. They say that theyve got rigorous standards but they really dont know what those standards are real terms they say that they kick people out but 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 dont make 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 you see 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 and 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 to your dog the only us registry that matters isnt a g c dot org and were ever we advance that sort of legislation not 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 or ordinances 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 deem 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 ordinance 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 Kennel Club the 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 why would a group pose 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 report many pet Stores Across the United States emphasize to their potential customers that their facilities are casey 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 case she could be targeting this major Distribution Channel saying were not going to endorse pet stores if we see our dogs. Those stories because we dont feel that is a good means by which a dog is being raced. And unfortunately had not taken that position. For years. So i thought. It was really. Thinking this is not a disease. 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 a 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 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 dog it just started me looking through the cage and i code you want to go to a puppy play room and then theyd give you a toy to 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 you know 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. For your family and now maybe you are asking yourself where did this come from lets take a look at the journey that when puppies make the right our store. Well pet lamb 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 shipment over 3 months of more than 15000. 00 puppies across the country the report determined that 95 percent of. Puppies in pet land stores come from large scale commercial kennels i work at a gym right next to a pet lab and i see it all the time and ive even stopped and said you know even to a young couple you know a kid say beef do me a favor before you go in there you know google puppy mills oh we know a popular shows us why are you going to buy a dog with. No 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 for their medical care they have some birth defect or some chronic problem or worms or parvo or anything that 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 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 animal 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 d n g 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 n g to seek out breeders located over 7 hours away the price for breeders simply selling to a pet shop thats not about. You seen that animal with a family for the rest of the life thats really about the money pets are happy poppies because a reputable breeder somebody who cares about their animals and wants to know where theyre going 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 on the internet or sell a dog to a broker to sell to a pet store thats 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 youre almost guaranteed its a puppy mill. This is largely a marketing sort of enterprise were people can register the litters the puppies and you get the halo effect that this isnt it to see registered 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 fathers 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 aint home 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 they are going to as he never was. You know 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 commercials of the years and they oppose legislation when you go through the senate of. 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 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 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 de 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 but there are scope as a global citizens who wish Justice Justice through free competition and hard money thats still the justice that matter is that sustainable thats a great deal that doesnt rely on politicians. Humanity is on the edge of a precipice thanks to a continuing destruction of the natural world. Youre just sitting at a letter gives us a call. Later period. Where you get the feeling. Im everything you dreamed. Of and you. Got it all with the war. Or the. Only dealing in the muslim world as a rule book you sit around and stuff it and ship them through the. Human activity has brought us to the brink of the worlds 6th major extinction of it and the people in this film just cant take it anymore. 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 it youre in pictures of puppy mills and things like that after 2 weeks i just forgot all that literature but it was a copy of prop because it wasnt that people wanted to support above the bills or call the dogs it was is this a stereo that infected 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 and 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 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 and what i call the line of dominoes out here in eliminating all of domesticated animals you know dogs cats then you go into livestock arena forces and so forth and then the Ballot 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 was no way to defend the mouse so instead they want to change the subject to all these other animals that people. Response 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 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 right this proposition with about dogs but an issue wants you to think its about all these other animals because that will scare the hell it. Really is an issue for anyone who likes to eat meat protein in their diet 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 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 and it matched exactly. So thats why we here. We lived our lives here pretty much you know or 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 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 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 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 trespasses on your property gulfs you and its there in the media 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 in odors emitting from Smithfield Foods that 3 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 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 campaigned 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 hector 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 focus