PETA Chief: Animals Outrank PWAs
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There is, quite understandably, much buzz about a quote (or perhaps it's a misquote or a paraphrase or something) from Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:
On the question of exactly what she said, see here.
I have blogged before about animals rights activists and animal rights terrorists; see the archive below. To summarize: two axioms must always be remembered when discussing issues of animal use, abuse and cruelty:
1. Animals have no "rights." The rights that are infringed when animals suffer are the rights of human beings. Animal cruelty inflicts negative externalities -- quite extreme externalities in fact -- on people of good will (such as myself). It is an entirely proper function of government to quash those externalities by prohibiting such conduct. Stated differently, animal cruelty is not a crime against animals, it is a crime against humanity.
2. Animal rights activists are not motivated by love of animals, but by hatred of humans. This is a hard premise to accept by most people (because most people are not demented), but the Newkirk quote serves as yet further demonstration of it. Elevating animals to the same level as humans is a monstrous enough notion -- to support elevating animals above humans can only be justified by someone who sees, not worth in animals, but anti-worth in humanity. Note also that, statistically speaking, people with AIDS, both domestically and globally, tend to be at or near the bottom of the political and economic power structures. These are the people, not "Big Pharma," not "Republicans," not "Americans," but the weakest and most desperate demographic on the planet, whom Newkirk opposes. These are the people to whom PETA says, in Zuniga-esque fashion, "Screw 'em." (A related observation at Soul of Wit.)
There are bona fide animal rights terrorists who use bona fide violence to further their agenda. That's bad enough. But sometimes words and ideas are more destructive than any pipe bomb. Newkirk's evil viewpoint is a sad example.
Related Posts:
The Other Capitulation to Terrorists
More "Other Terrorism"
How to Deal With Animal Rights Terrorists
Animal Rights Terrorists: Lessons Not Learned
Animal Rights Terrorists: Grave of 87-Year-Old Desecrated
"Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it."
On the question of exactly what she said, see here.
I have blogged before about animals rights activists and animal rights terrorists; see the archive below. To summarize: two axioms must always be remembered when discussing issues of animal use, abuse and cruelty:
1. Animals have no "rights." The rights that are infringed when animals suffer are the rights of human beings. Animal cruelty inflicts negative externalities -- quite extreme externalities in fact -- on people of good will (such as myself). It is an entirely proper function of government to quash those externalities by prohibiting such conduct. Stated differently, animal cruelty is not a crime against animals, it is a crime against humanity.
2. Animal rights activists are not motivated by love of animals, but by hatred of humans. This is a hard premise to accept by most people (because most people are not demented), but the Newkirk quote serves as yet further demonstration of it. Elevating animals to the same level as humans is a monstrous enough notion -- to support elevating animals above humans can only be justified by someone who sees, not worth in animals, but anti-worth in humanity. Note also that, statistically speaking, people with AIDS, both domestically and globally, tend to be at or near the bottom of the political and economic power structures. These are the people, not "Big Pharma," not "Republicans," not "Americans," but the weakest and most desperate demographic on the planet, whom Newkirk opposes. These are the people to whom PETA says, in Zuniga-esque fashion, "Screw 'em." (A related observation at Soul of Wit.)
There are bona fide animal rights terrorists who use bona fide violence to further their agenda. That's bad enough. But sometimes words and ideas are more destructive than any pipe bomb. Newkirk's evil viewpoint is a sad example.
Related Posts:
The Other Capitulation to Terrorists
More "Other Terrorism"
How to Deal With Animal Rights Terrorists
Animal Rights Terrorists: Lessons Not Learned
Animal Rights Terrorists: Grave of 87-Year-Old Desecrated
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- Animal Rights versus Racial Equality
- Some Owls are More Equal than Others
- PETA Chief: Animals Outrank PWAs
- Animal Rights Terrorists: Grave of 87-Year-Old Desecrated
- Animal Rights Terrorists: Lessons Not Learned
- How to Deal With Animal Rights Terrorists
- More "Other Terrorism"
- The Other Capitulation to Terrorists
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27 February 2005
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