Adams: We have had a lot questions about where you come down on animal rights and welfare. The livestock industry and people I know believe in the humane treatment of animals. There is a difference between animal welfare and animal rights. How do you define the two? Are they same or different?

Pacelle: We at the Humane Society of the United States don’t talk about animal rights, but human responsibility. That places us more with the comments that you represent from the agriculture community. In almost all of our campaigns and activities, whether it’s Prop 2 in California or prior ballot measures in Florida or Arizona, or in our Hallmark/Westland investigation, where we exposed the terrible mistreatment at a cull cow slaughter plant of the spent dairy cows, or in some other campaigns, those fit squarely in the realm of animal welfare. They relate not whether animals should be used for food, but how they are treated during production, transport and slaughter. [...] We’ll have some disagreements depending on what your orientation is, but I don’t think anyone can reasonably claim that our work is moving in the direction of eliminating animal agriculture as some of the folks in the industry keep repeating.

HSUS is unabashedly a welfare group; as for PETA, though they may engage in “controversial” or “outrageous” stunts, many of their campaigns and policies are more welfare-oriented, and their associations w/ and promotion of Peter Singer – a utilitarian and welfarist – seals the deal.

http://www.naiaonline.org/about/positions.htm

Not only do they support eating and wearing animals, they also oppose efforts to ban declawing, tail-docking, and ear-cropping of companion animals.