Posted on 09/11/2009 7:35:41 PM PDT by Still Thinking
Yesterday, the Senate voted 63-35 to invoke cloture on the nomination of animal rights activist Cass Sunstein to be the nation’s new “regulatory czar,” which means the Senate can proceed with a vote to confirm him. The vote will likely occur before the end of the night. Obviously troubling is Sunstein’s apparent devotion to Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation (and the philosopher whom radical PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk calls her life’s inspiration). Singer is infamous for his belief that it’s permissible to kill newborn children since they’re supposedly no more special than a dog.
On the Fox News Channel yesterday, CCF’s Director of Research sat down with Glenn Beck for a chat about Sunstein’s philosophy and what it could mean for America’s food producers—and everyone else whose work judiciously uses animals. Building off of last week’s discussion with Beck about how Sunstein could abuse the Endangered Species Act to put cattlemen out of business, we told Beck’s audience of millions how Sunstein can write his animal rights philosophy into law:
Sunstein is very careful and will go about his transformation in a methodical and subtle way. He is likely, I think, to use the USDA to take meat and dairy products out of school lunches and is likely to use the Department of Interior to stop hunting and fishing on federal land and will use the USDA to make it difficult to use animals as lab rats for curing cancer and AIDS. That's a huge problem.
Watch the whole segment here.
Just wait. Some nut cases will start proposing plant and vegetable “rights.”
But that's a paradox. The "other animal species" eat each other and otherwise compete for resources. If we're nothing more than another species of animal, that argues in favor of our simply doing our best to be the biggest, baddest species on the block, like all the others do.
So they say we're no different, then use that to tell us to behave in a way that doesn't make sense unless we're fundamentally different. They can't even get their own orthodoxy to make coherent sense.
I already practice that. I eat meat because I can't stand the thought of the ears being ripped off corn, the eyes gouged from innocent potatoes, and the needless whipping of cream and eggs.
That’s good....that’s real damn good.
Never thought of that.
A quick look at the First Lady’s posterior would indicate that she is not a vegetarian.
Unless she eats her body weight in vegetables on a daily basis!
From what I hear, she has crabs. Oh...sorry, I was just corrected — it’s lobsters.
Want to have fun with someone who thinks “a rat is a fish is a dog is a boy”? Tell them, “If I’m no different than, say, a wolf, then as long as wolves kill and eat cattle, I can enjoy this nice juicy beefsteak, too.”
Precisely. See my 22.
Crabs or lobsters...
I’m sure she’s ordering the “all you can eat” selection!
Yes, but, but, but, the wolf doesn’t get to use a grill and Montreal steak seasoning, so none for you!
Well, I suppose she could eat lobster and still have crabs.
Thag yu. Thag yu vurry much! [/Elvis voice]
L!Did any Republicans vote to confirm this lunatic?
Yes, 5 RINO’s Bennett, Collins, Hatch, Lugar, Snowe, and Voinovich
Um, that’d be 6.
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