Animal rights activists really do have a noble cause, that point is difficult to debate. Who doesn’t like animals, especially the domestic type? The thought of someone torturing an innocent animal makes my blood boil, as well, such as the case involving Michael Vick. But do I think he should be killed? The answer to that question is a resounding no.
No one suggests that activists do not have every right to protest. It’s when they begin to take it up a notch and actually attempt to murder people that it’s time to slam on the brakes.
Dr. Arthur Rosenbaum is a pediatric ophthamologist in Los Angeles who uses animals to do testing, presumably to further advance the care of children, an even nobler cause. But the Animal Liberation Brigade wants to kill him. How nice. But it’s not only doctors they want to kill.
Here is an excerpt from an essay on the ALB website:
The factory farm system is semblable to Nazi prison camps. Over 90% of
farmed animals in the U.S. are raised in intensive confinement. American’s meat
centered diet necessitates the slaughter of over 8 billion animals a year. A figure
that exceeds the worlds human population by over 2 billion inhabitants. Animals are
exploited (milk, eggs) until there productivity rates decline, and are then
systematically slaughtered for human consumption.
farmed animals in the U.S. are raised in intensive confinement. American’s meat
centered diet necessitates the slaughter of over 8 billion animals a year. A figure
that exceeds the worlds human population by over 2 billion inhabitants. Animals are
exploited (milk, eggs) until there productivity rates decline, and are then
systematically slaughtered for human consumption.
The real irony lies in the fact that people like this seem to have no qualms at all about treating human babies the same way. They demand embryonic stem cell research which theoretically will require the farming of human embryos for a supply of stem cells. Imagine that, creating human embryos solely for research, and not a peep from animal rights activists.
I guess they wouldn’t mind if we had a baby-barbeque after we extract the stem cells from the embryos.
Yeah. Save the animals, kill the people. It must make sense to someone.
-Woody
