A k c and terms 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 Scale 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 expose them to extremes of even told 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 is. Specs channels 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 we dont really have a comprehensive record of when theyre doing that or what the consequences are of even if they can still keep breeding 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. The accused is a group that says its the dogs champion but in practical terms is consistently leading the fight against efforts to establish a main 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 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 heat 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 a k. C. 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 8 casey 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 k. C. 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 opposition. For years. So i thought. This is really the. Key thing is that it is. 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 our 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 dogs and then youre broke and so theyre like heres a credit card we will help you pay for the dog and 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. You. For your family and now maybe you are asking yourself where did this come from lets take a look at the journey 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 shipments over 3 months of more than 15000 puppies across the country the report determined that 9. 5 percent of the 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 it popular as us so 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 afford 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. Place scene that i am with a family for the rest of the life thats really about the money had star athletes are popping up poppies because a reputable breeder somebody who cares about their animals and wants to know what theyre calling 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 theyre 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 is in any case the register dollars or litter when in reality it has no practical meaning when it comes to Animal Welfare they see 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 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 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 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. You know of their own money and thats what i always say when people go to the westminister dog of shell go in there knowing that this show has been subsidized by the quality of it was because the a c. Will not stop papering dollars from commercial dollars and they oppose legislation when you go through the centers 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. Join me every day on the alex salmond and. Im sure ill see that. More of my guide to financial survival this is. A device used by professionals to earn money. Thats right these. Are just more to the. Global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for. The was something that was in the works for many years because missouri is the capital of. The simply sought to impose humane breeding standards and limits. You know what i started out. All this stuff and literature and pictures of puppy mills. After 2 weeks i just forgot all that literature. Because it wasnt that people wanted to support the bills or call the dogs it was this this is that if i did other things it was a campaign of fear and misinformation fear. He was going to mysteriously morph into a ban on all. Culture you know they said that this. Was you know and then of course when they were confronted on it on the wall they said well its a slippery slope but there was still continue to go into rural areas and convince everybody that this was going to shut down the family farm and it just created a major. It didnt deal with cattle pigs it in deal with chickens it in the old any other species the language was explicit and anyone who was 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 ating all of domesticated animals you know dogs cats and you want to livestock arena forces and so forth and in a bell of 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 this 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 and 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 line i mean lets just cut to the chase this proposition was about dogs but wants you to think its about all these other animals because that will scare the hell that. Really is an issue for anyone that 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 halftime on agriculture. Interestingly my wife and i had made a plan for we settle. On a piece of paper what our dream of a farm. Search i will show this. And. So thats why we here. We lived our lives here pretty much your knoll 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 would that clean air was a vitally 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 males more than males. The Farmland Foods 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 north or 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 ok 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 would call it a trespasser it just trespasses on your property and in golfs you and its there in the media just like its just like if a visitor coming that you have not invited. Rolfs relationship with the Missouri Farm Bureau radically changed when he began to complain about the daily waste and 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 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 out and it supposedly is a Farm Organization these supposedly supports individual independent farmers and all of a sudden they were siding with the 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. 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 focused on misrepresenting the clear language improper be the majority of the funding for the alliance for truth was funneled through missouri farmers care by the same agricultural trade groups the trade groups involved represent the interests of their member corporations in missouri these corporations include some of the largest agribusiness is in the United States months sent to Tyson Cargill and Smithfield Foods while these trade groups use their vast Financial Resources opposing prop b. The corporations that ultimately provided the majority of the funding for the campaign remained silent simply put without the Financial Support of corporate agriculture the puppy mills of missouri would not have had the ability to mount the alliance fo