Wayne Pacelle

Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest animal protection organization with more than 11 million members and constituents, annual revenue of $130 million, and assets of more than $200 million. Pacelle's work on animal issues has been featured in thousands of newspapers and magazines across the country. He has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on almost all of the major network television programs -– including The Today Show, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Good Morning America and ABC's Primetime Live. Pacelle blogs daily at Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation. Pacelle is the author of the forthcoming book The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them.

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Animal Welfare

Animal welfare is one of the worst problems that many Christians know nothing about. Each year, eight million animals enter shelters and as many as four million sheltered animals are killed. Additionally, more than 25 million animals will be used in laboratory experiments this year. When the testing concludes, almost of all of them will be killed. Wayne Pacelle and Christine Gutleben of the Humane Society of The United States, say Christians should care. Hear their surprising insights from scripture and Christian history as they ask us to consider our non-human neighbors.

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Animals: Should We Care?

When we speak of our “humanity,” it’s grounded in our capacity as humans to exhibit empathy for others. It’s our innate empathy that prompts us to care not only for members of our families or our friends and neighbors, but also for those we’ve never met, especially the needy. This altruistic instinct motivates so many good works in society, and there are millions who help by sheltering the poor, feeding the hungry, or curing the ill...

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