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Trumps newest pick is a defender of puppy mills "An industry of torture"
Dogs being rescued from a suspected puppy mill operation in Tennessee in 2014.
...One of Trump's most recent picks to helm his transition, Brian Klippenstein, has an almost cartoonishly-villainous history protecting puppy mills from regulation that would make them more humane.
Trump tapped Klippenstein to join the team leading the U.S. Department of Agriculture transition on Friday, Mother Jones reported. Klippenstein is the executive director of Protect the Harvest, an organization that, as Mother Jones reported, "seems to exist mainly to troll the Humane Society of the United States."
According to its mission statement, which opens with the warning "Your rights and ability to feed your family are under attack," Protect the Harvest exists in part to "inform America's consumers, businesses and decision-makers about the threats posed by animal rights groups and anti-farming extremists."
A promotional video on the group's website stresses the importance of "defending our traditions," and includes photos of performing elephants — a "tradition" that is currently being phased out because of the stress the elephants endure.
Klippenstein's organization has also, as Mother Jones reported, worked to fight legislation which would regulate puppy mills, factories in which puppies are bred to be sold in pet shops and malls. The bill that Protect the Harvest fought against proposed requiring "large-scale dog breeding operations" to "provide each dog under their care with sufficient food, clean water, housing and space."
Trump tapped Klippenstein to join the team leading the U.S. Department of Agriculture transition on Friday, Mother Jones reported. Klippenstein is the executive director of Protect the Harvest, an organization that, as Mother Jones reported, "seems to exist mainly to troll the Humane Society of the United States."
According to its mission statement, which opens with the warning "Your rights and ability to feed your family are under attack," Protect the Harvest exists in part to "inform America's consumers, businesses and decision-makers about the threats posed by animal rights groups and anti-farming extremists."
A promotional video on the group's website stresses the importance of "defending our traditions," and includes photos of performing elephants — a "tradition" that is currently being phased out because of the stress the elephants endure.
Klippenstein's organization has also, as Mother Jones reported, worked to fight legislation which would regulate puppy mills, factories in which puppies are bred to be sold in pet shops and malls. The bill that Protect the Harvest fought against proposed requiring "large-scale dog breeding operations" to "provide each dog under their care with sufficient food, clean water, housing and space."
https://mic.com/articles/162185/trump-s-newest-pick-is-a-defender-of-puppy-mills-an-industry-of-torture#.oHiMoNXKp
