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The "Animal Rights" Movement's Cruelty to Humans
Capitalism Magazine ^ | August 15, 2005 | Alex Epstein
Posted on 08/26/2005 3:43:14 AM PDT by Smile-n-Win
The "animal rights" movement has pulled off a deadly deception: promote a vicious, anti-human policy, while feigning benevolent, compassionate motives. The deception takes the form of opposing life-saving medical research--in the name of opposing cruelty to animals.
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The founder of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, has declared unequivocally that animal research is "immoral even if it's essential" and that "Even painless research is fascism, supremacism." When questioned what her movement's stance would be if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, Newkirk responded: "We'd be against it." Chris DeRose, founder of the group Last Chance for Animals, writes: "If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make any difference to me."
(Excerpt) Read more at capmag.com ...
if Peta is so concerned about the lives of animals, why don't they get involved in working against jihadists? After all, all those little felines and canines will suffer any wmd attack just as we would....