[E. Pluribus Unum]

You go down this path, that animals are anything other than property, and someday you will be surprised to find that raising animals for food is illegal, and keeping animals as pets is illegal.

It's not a slippery slope. It's a fascist freight train that soft hearts-and-heads will never see coming until it is too late.

[mamelukesabre]

You go down this path, that animals are anything other than property, and someday you will be surprised to find that raising animals for food is illegal, and keeping animals as pets is illegal.

It’s not a slippery slope. It’s a fascist freight train that soft hearts-and-heads will never see coming until it is too late.
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exactly. Personally I’m really sick of the so called animal lovers running amok on this site.

[B Knotts]

It's not a slippery slope. It's a fascist freight train that soft hearts-and-heads will never see coming until it is too late.

Absolutely correct. I'm afraid this is a side-effect of urbanization.