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Article: Pro-CAFTA Humane Society Has Sister Groups Fuming
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- The Washington Post
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- April 28, 2005
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Best known for its pet shelters and crusades against animal abuse,
the Humane Society is hardly the sort of organization that might be
expected to throw its weight behind an international trade pact.
So when a top Humane Society official delivered testimony favoring
the proposed U.S.-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) at a
Senate hearing a few days ago, opponents of the accord were stunned.
The remarks by Patricia Forkan, president of Humane Society
International, were in marked contrast with the denunciations of
CAFTA by other major environmental groups. Based on her
organization's work in Central America, Forkan declared, the
agreement was likely to prove environmentally ...