Posted on 07/24/2007 9:43:45 AM PDT by Kaput
Animal Law by: Malcolm A. Kline, July 24, 2007
Who knew how prescient the 1978 frat house film comedy Animal House would be? Now we have an animal law school.
“Here at Lewis & Clark College School of Law, students of ‘animal law’ are learning another way to change social practices that involve animals,” Peter Monaghan reports in the June 29th issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. “They are just as passionate as animal-liberation advocates.”
“And they may become more influential.” Since “animal-liberation advocates” have been known to demonstrate their passion and use their influence by destroying university labs, look out.
“It’s a lot like where environmental law was in the 1970s,” Laura Ireland, founder and director of L & C’s National Center for Animal Law, told Monaghan. It should be noted that partly because of the manner in which environmental law developed since the 1970s, an oil refinery has not been constructed in the United States for 30 years.
Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.
If you would like to comment on this article, please e-mail mal.kline@academia.org
The law is an ass.
expand upon that please. do you mean the law in general, or animal law?
THE LAW
Not to go on All-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not men?
Not to suck up Drink; that is the Law. Are we not men?
Not to eat Fish or Flesh; that is the Law. Are we not men?
Not to claw the Bark of Trees; that is the Law. Are we not men?
Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not men?
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