The world's largest dog-e "yellow pages" "Where Everyone Who's Anyone" is easy to find Get your free listing now!

In order to intelligently discuss Animal Rights, we must look at the tactics AR Activists use to raise money and strip away Human Rights.  No matter how you turn the picture, they are animal terrorists.

 Barbara J. Andrews © The Dog Press 04|15|08  Leg hold traps are a favorite “cause” with which to raise donations.  Fur trapping began with our ancestors and it will continue no matter how much money the AR terrorists raise by chanting animal cruelty.   Sure it’s cruel.  So are feed lots, the production of veal and pork, and poultry farms.  Are you vegan?  Or do we talk out of both sides of our mouths? 

Then there’s the Fur Industry.  Gimme a break, you are talking to ¼ Comanche.  Man has always valued fur for warmth and adornment, today we farm it.  There is the inescapable fact that animals die to make a fur coat but every part of that fur animal is refined to feed a farm animal or the farm-raised fish we eat.  Sure, there are great synthetic “furs” now but does it really matter whether we kill an animal to eat it or wear it?  If we decry the fur industry, we must not sit on that wonderful leather sofa or buy those wonderful Italian or Chilean made shoes.

Horse slaughter.  HSUS rightfully claims credit for closing the slaughter houses.  All my horse friends say it is the WORST thing that has ever happened to horses.  Many starved to death or were dumped on the roadside because drought-stricken owners couldn’t feed them.  Blooded horses sold at auction for $200 but in today’s stricken economy, no one is buying.  Thanks to HSUS, there are no more slaughter houses and owners can’t even legally destroy their own elderly, sick, or starving horses.  How kind is that?

Rodeos.  How many who chant the Animal Terrorist’s song have ever been to a rodeo?  Their ignorance shows because a good bucking horse is worth more than an average race horse.  Bodacious, one of the greatest bucking bulls of all time, lived a life of luxury then and today he is happily siring.  How cruel is that?  Sure, a failed bronc or bull is slaughtered, but abused?  Never.  Failed bucking stock serves man.  Horses used to be legally slaughtered here to become dog food or feed people in other countries.  Now they are mercilessly trucked across the border to be inhumanely killed.

As you are on your way to an 8 hour workday tomorrow, think how cruelly you are treated compared to rodeo stock that works less than two minutes per month! 

And then there’s the elephant cruelty/circus story.  I love elephants.  At six years old, I met a local elephant named Miss Chick and visited her often.  One of my personal friends is the elephant vet for the Atlanta zoo and an international authority on elephants.  We know elephants would rather be free but they are extremely valuable property and with but few exceptions, for which an elephant will retaliate, circus elephants are not abused.  Of course they chain elephants.  How else would they keep them from wandering downtown?  Elephants have been tethered for centuries and were it not for elephants, there would be no teak wood harvested for that precious table, no Dumbo movies, nothing to entertain and fascinate our children, but most of all, there would be no food and no economy for millions of people in India.  Killing a tusked cow, leaving her baby to starvation is the crime the Animal Rightists aren’t talking about.

Of course there should be regulation on whaling and Whale Wars has become a popular TV series although it has only a fraction of the viewers on Funniest Animals or Pet Stars.  The issue here is what “right” does an AR group have to stop the Eskimo from harvesting a whale or a seal to feed his family? 

Make no mistake; PETA, HSUS, ELF and ALF seek to re-define the man-animal relationship into that which serves their subversive, money-making purpose.  See War Games for a chronological look at the Animal Rightists power with AKC.  In order to understand the AR Agenda – and why the FBI lists the above organizations as top domestic terrorists.  So why do we pander to them?

 Since man first stood upright, he has “used” animals but the Animal Rights people use animals to wage war against the right of human beings.  For over 4,000 years, humans have cherished animals as beasts of burden, war, and work, and as our friends.  The Creator planned it that way.  The Animal Rightists would dispute that?  They would change the grand scheme of things?  A coyote can’t kill a rabbit to feed her family?  Ants can’t keep and defend their aphids which provide milky nourishment for the ants?

 The AR Terrorists would rather we had lost WW1 than to have used mules to move our artillery and supplies. Those long-ears won freedom for millions.  Indeed, some were overworked or went hungry right along with our soldiers.  Before that, mules, oxen, and draft horses pulled a million plows and wagons for American settlers.

 Now animals serve a new purpose.  They are used to strip away common sense and further the AR agenda!  Think about this - PETA and HSUS get more press coverage than MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) or groups who work against child-abuse. 

 How cruel is that?

Ref:
http://www.thedogplace.org/PROJECTS/PAWS/PETA_Know_Enemy.2.asp
www.TheDogPress.com/Columns/Editorials/0505_Where_Are_Leaders.asp
www.TheDogPress.com/Columns/Editorials/0510_Wrong_Horse.asp
www.fbi.gov/congress/congress02/jarboe021202.htm 

Barbara (BJ) Andrews