I’m an animal lover. Always have been. But as I listened to “Silent Night” being sung in the background and watched picture after picture of mistreated animals and heard about their plight, I must say I got a bit perturbed. It’s not the animals I’m upset with, and it’s not the people who have done bad things to animals I am upset with — although I think the Bible makes it clear that treating animals decently is right and being cruel to them is wrong. I was upset with the ASPCA and those who did the ad for them.
They know exactly what they are doing — exploiting our emotions so they can rake in the money. And rake in the money they do. According to financial records, this so-called “animal-rights” organization brought in over $200 million in revenue in 2015, over $100 million of which is raised each year off these emotionally charged ads. Likewise, the Humane Society of the United States brings in over $130 million a year, most of it from sympathetic donors.
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