The Dark Truth Behind Animal Welfare Groups’ Radical Spending

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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jack Hubbard, executive director at the Center for the Environment & Welfare, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss how the spending of organizations such as American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) reckons with the high number of animal euthanizations across the U.S. Hubbard also shares how these organization's lobbying efforts hurt the family farming industry and Americans hoping to buy affordable food.

Read the report "Fat Cats and Dead Dogs: Shelter Pets Die While National Groups Hoard Money" here.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:22.4	I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at The Federalist, and your experience
0:27.1	Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:30.2	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
0:34.6	Follow us on X at FDRLST.
0:40.0	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and of course to the premium version of our website as well. Our guest today is Jack Hubbard,
0:46.6	executive director of the Center for the Environment and Welfare. CEW recently announced
0:53.8	the launch of a new public education campaign to address
0:57.8	an urgent and growing crisis, the mass euthanasia of homeless pets across the country. The campaign
1:07.9	debuts with part one of a three-part mini documentary series, fat cats and dead dogs.
1:15.4	It exposes how powerful animal charities like the ASPCA and PETA raise hundreds of millions of dollars each year while shelter pets are left behind.
1:27.2	The series is paired with an investigative report that backs up the story with hard data.
1:32.9	Jack, thank you so much for joining us in this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
1:36.6	Oh, thanks for having me, Matt.
1:38.4	There's some disturbing numbers here, and I think what is disturbing to animal lovers,
1:43.9	animal lovers who, you know, for years
1:46.7	have thought about the ASPCA, even for some, PETA, although we know PETA in its tactics over the years.
1:56.3	But, you know, you think about the ASPCA and you think, oh, well, you know, this is an organization that is
2:02.2	absolutely committed full on to saving animals' lives. And that may be part of what they do,
2:13.1	but they have other priorities as well, do they not? They do.
2:18.1	Yeah.
2:18.4	And unfortunately, some of those priorities are somewhat self-serving.
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