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Executive Director, Wayne Pacell, prides himself on being a Vegan (radical vegetarian using no animal products whatsoever) and it leading the various anti-hunting initiatives around the country, something at which he has been highly successful. The Hawaii Humane Society has absolutely stonewalled both the hunting and other concerned parties on the Big Island for the past year and a half, including Councilman Yagong, who has been more than patient and diplomatic with them, and persist in their policy that it is better to "euthanize" dogs than to allow them to be adopted where there might be any "risk of injury" as in pig or other hunting. Lisa Fowler went so far as to tell a meeting (the only one) of hunters, other citizens, an attorney, and Councilman Yagong that they didn't need the County's $600,000 a year and would persist in this policy regardless. Their veterinarian actually defended the frequent "euthanasia" of dogs as preferable to them being allowed for pig hunting. Trying to make all dogs "pets" in the H.S.U.S. fashion and ignoring the rural character of the Big Island and the largely "helpmate" character of its dogs to justify frequent killing of dogs not allowed to be adopted is onerous in the extreme, because it is a policy based in what certain humans WISH dogs to be rather than what they are. The following are several quotes from the H.S.U.S. Director, Wayne Pacell: - "We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding....One generation and out. We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding." Wayne Pacelle Animal People May 1993 -"If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would." Wayne Pacelle formerly of Friends of Animals Impassioned Agitator Associated Press Dec. 30, 1991 5