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Wayne Pacelle was the president and chief executive officer of the Humane Society of the United States . Pacelle took office June 1, 2004, after serving for nearly 10 years as the organization's chief lobbyist and spokesperson, and was asked by the board to resign on February 2, 2018, after accusations of sexual harassment against him by Humane Society employees, which Pacelle has vociferously denied.

✵ 4. August 1965
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Famous Wayne Pacelle Quotes

“We equate speciesism—the belief that one’s species is superior to all others—with racism and sexism.”

Wayne Pacelle

"Sabotaging Animal Rights for Deer Hunt," 1986

“I’ve always had an affinity for wildlife, and the direct assault made on that wildlife by hunters and trappers has always infuriated me … At the same time, I don’t have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I’m kind to them, but there’s no special bond between me and other animals…”

Wayne Pacelle

Interview in "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt," 1994

“Animals have their own rights. We’re animals too.”

Wayne Pacelle

"Sabotaging Animal Rights for Deer Hunt," 1986

“I don’t love animals or think they are cute.”

Wayne Pacelle

"Sabotaging Animal Rights for Deer Hunt," 1986

“The whole ‘rights’ thing is fraught with so much. I’m not sure I believe in any natural right.”

Wayne Pacelle

"Wayne Pacelle works for the winged, finned and furry," 2008

“Animals are no one’s property, and they have the right not be ‘taken,’ ‘harvested,’ or ‘culled’ or any other euphemism for murder that wildlife managers use. They are no one’s property, just as you and I are no one’s property other than our own.”

Wayne Pacelle

"Sabotaging Animal Rights for Deer Hunt," 1986

Wayne Pacelle Quotes

“Interviewer: About fishing … do you avoid campaigning against it because there isn’t a ground-swell movement in our culture to eliminate it?
Wayne Pacelle That is correct. We’re out to minimize suffering wherever it can be done, and wherever our limited resources can be utilized most effectively—abusive forms of hunting for now, all hunting eventually.”

Wayne Pacelle

Interview in "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt," 1994

Fish , Suffering

“If society says that it doesn’t want the recreational killing of wildlife then we should do away with it, just the way we’ve done away with cockfighting and dogfighting.”

Wayne Pacelle

Interview in "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt," 1994

Way

“There are lots of gun rights groups, but the one that you hear about and the one that is feared is the NRA. I'd rather be loved -- and feared.”

Wayne Pacelle

"Wayne Pacelle works for the winged, finned and furry," 2008

Love , Fear

“Interviewer: [W]ould you let people hunt for food if they did it respectfully?
Wayne Pacelle: Well, it’s a good question,” he says, pondering what he’s about the say. “I think that I would campaign against it. Yes, I think that I would.”

Wayne Pacelle

Interview in "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt," 1994

People , Food , Question , Thinking

“If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.”

Wayne Pacelle

Wayne Pacelle, Impassioned Agitator http://www.huntersagainstpeta.com/the-president-of-the-hsus-wayne-pacelle-howls-about-wolves-being-delisted, Associated Press, December 30, 1991

Sport

“Having hunters oversee wildlife is like having Dracula guard the blood bank.”

Wayne Pacelle

Wayne Pacelle in: William G. Tapply, Who Speaks for People? https://books.google.com/books?id=OBxpK1FM1KYC&pg=PA8 Field & Stream, June 1991, p. 6

“Animals for the most part just need to be left alone.”

Wayne Pacelle

"Wayne Pacelle works for the winged, finned and furry," 2008

Animals , Parting

“Interviewer: How about pets, Wayne? Would you envision a future with no pets in the world?
Wayne Pacelle: I wouldn’t say that I envision that, no. If I had my personal view perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don’t want to see another cat or dog born. It’s not something I strive for, though. If people were very responsible, and didn’t do manipulative breeding, and cared for animals in all senses, and accounted for their nutritional needs as well as their social and psychological needs, then I think it could be an appropriate thing. I’m not sure. I think it’s one of those things that we’ll decide later in society. I think we’re still far from it.”

Wayne Pacelle

Interview in "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt," 1994

People , World , Dogs , Cats

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