Posted on 09/21/2010 1:54:44 PM PDT by jazusamo
Every now and then, an animal rights activist will toss aside all pretenses to common sense and make a truly inane (and frighteningly candid) statement. Today’s case in point: Dr. Jerry Vlasak, a part-time trauma surgeon who was at one time a spokesperson for the PETA-linked “Physicians Committee” for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). He’s also been affiliated with the pseudo-pirate Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and a public defender of the terrorist Animal Liberation Front. When asked recently about whether we should take steps to eliminate mosquitoes, Vlasak spouted off with a radical anti-people solution. As Wesley J. Smith reports on his blog:
“They would have us believe it’s either the mosquitoes or us. That’s just not the case. For one thing, there are way too many people on the planet,” Vlasak said. Vlasak said more attention should be focused on the problems of overpopulation instead. “One of the problems is, they send 1 million pounds of food to Somalia and all they do is reproduce and pretty soon there’s going to be more people suffering there. China is sort of an example where they were able to stabilize the population with governmental standards,” Vlasak said.
Get that? Instead of swatting or spraying an annoying insect, we should let poor Somalians starve, since giving them food to live will just result in them having kids. Or maybe Chinese-style population control could work.
Right.
This is nothing new from Vlasak. At the “Animal Rights 2003” conference, Vlasak (as a representative of PCRM) endorsed the murder of physicians whose medical research work requires the use of lab rats. (PCRM has denied that Vlasak was speaking on its behalf, but the event’s program described him as “Jerry Vlasak, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.”)
Vlasak stated:
I don’t think you’d have to kill -- assassinate -- too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives.
Unfortunately, Vlasak is not alone in his bizarre, anti-human thinking. Accompanied by violence or not, the idea that there’s nothing special about people is increasingly common in the animal rights movement. It seems that when people are the problem, no “solution” is ever enough.
"They would have us believe it's either the mosquitoes or us. That's just not the case. For one thing, there are way too many people on the planet," Vlasak said. Vlasak said more attention should be focused on the problems of overpopulation instead. "One of the problems is, they send 1 million pounds of food to Somalia and all they do is reproduce and pretty soon there's going to be more people suffering there. China is sort of an example where they were able to stabilize the population with governmental standards," Vlasak said.
He;s in quite a pickle.
Hard to believe there are people who hate people so much.
And I was just wondering whatever became of her...
Too bad. No doubt as twisted now as her demented husband.
Thanks for the ping!
Howdy, Girlangler!
Haven’t heard from you in a while. How goes it?
Good to “see” both of you, it’s been awhile and you both posted within a few seconds of each other.
Hope things are going well for you girl, I know it’s been a tough year. Also hope you’ll get back here posting more. :-)
Things are getting better for me. Of course, it helped to take a trip to Yellowstone and the Tetons, and fish the Gardiner, Madison and Firehole rivers (grin).
My nephew and I did that a few weeks ago, we flew into Billings and rented an RV. I loved it, it was just what the doctor ordered for me.
I’m better.
I guess you know I lost my husband in May and Mom in August, so I have been pretty down.
But, as I told Jaz, I’m better. Hoping to do a lot of fishing and enjoying life now. Life’s just too short to not spend time in the outdoors.
How are you doing?
What a wonderful trip, the scenery alone is fantastic but when mixed with fishin’ it has to be about the best therapy I can think of and well deserved by you.
They don’t refer to the area as God’s country for nothing and I’m certain the prescription was written by our Lord. :-)
The Great Outdoors is a wonderful way to find strength and peace. I've been out in it more than ever this year. As I told you about six months ago, an editorship post was offered to me, but the deal fell through. The primary investor got cold feet, and the project may never get started now.
HOWEVER, the birding outfit I work for offered me a full-time position in June, so I've been traveling all over the West, doing bird surveys and veg habitat surveys from Oregon to Death Valley. I've never been so healthy and fit before... and tan! LOL!
All the best to you both! And keep pinging me on animal/wilderness threads. I love to hear from you!
Yes, Vlasic. I was k-i-d-d-i-n-g.
How nice to see you!!! I was worried about you, but I see you are doing the right stuff. I am totally jealous of your trip. If I ever disappear, you might just check that area first.
“Is he furry?”
“No. He's a human...Dr. he needs attention STAT!”
“Let him die, he's only a human. He might be a meat eater! Or a person who swats mosquitoes.
Let him die and decrease the surplus population”
Sorry for your pain.
I hope for some positives for you, soon.
Enjoy the outdoors and more ?
Be well
there are way too many people on the planet, Vlasak said.
Sound like Ted Turner ?
Exactly!!
The both of them should step to the front of the line for those who want to start the depopulation of the planet, two would make a start. :)
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