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Let's look at how Animal Rights Activists use animals to raise money from dog owners.  For instance, leg hold traps.

Fur trapping will continue no matter how much money pet owners give to the AR Terrorists to stop it.  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?

The Fur Industry itself. Gimme a break, you are talking to ¼ Comanche. Man has always valued hides for warmth and adornment. It's an inescapable fact that animals die to provide for us and yes, there are great synthetic “furs” now but again, does it really matter whether we kill an animal to eat it or wear it? If dog owners decry the fur industry, let's don't sit on that leather sofa or Mercedes seat. And never buy those wonderful Italian or Chilean made leather shoes!

  New rallying cry from the ARAs, “Buy from China.”

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. Last summer you could buy blooded horses at auction for $200 because drought-stricken owners couldn’t feed them, and thanks to HSUS, they can’t legally destroy starving horses.

Rodeo. How many who chant the ARA slogan have ever been to a rodeo or know a professional cowboy? For the record, a good bucking horse is worth more than an average race horse. And Bodacious, one of the greatest bucking bulls of all time, lived a life of luxury and is still happily siring. Sure, a failed bronc or bull is slaughtered, but abused? Never. Failed bucking stock continues to serve man. Horses used to become dog food but now they feed people in other countries.

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

And then there’s the never-ending elephant cruelty/circus story. I love elephants. At 6 years old I became long term friends with an elephant named Miss Chick. One of my personal friends today is the elephant vet for the Atlanta zoo.  Unable to own an elephant, I collect elephant figures.  Sure they would rather be free. Just like horses, pigs, and cattle. But they aren’t. And with but few exceptions, for which an elephant will retaliate, they are not abused. Of course they chain elephants. How else would they keep them from raiding the popcorn machine? Elephants have been tethered for centuries and after a wash in the river, they willingly return to the chain. 

You can't make an elephant work.  If they didn’t willingly serve mankind, there would be no teak for that precious table, no circus for our children, but most of all, there would be no food or economy for many millions of people!

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 Where Are Our Leaders to understand the Animal Rights Agenda – and why the FBI lists Animal Rights Activists such as ELF and ALF as among the top domestic terrorists.  So why do we pander to them?

Since man first stood upright, he has used animals but the AR people use animal rights to wage war against the right of human beings to use and cherish animals as beasts of burden, war, and work.

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 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 the pet owners' common sense and further the AR agenda! Think about this - PETA and HSUS get more press coverage than groups who work against child-abuse.

How cruel is that?

Ref:

www.TheDogPlace.org/Articles/Politics/PAWS/PETA_Know_Enemy.2.htm
www.TheDogPress.com/Columns/Editorials/0505_Where_Are_Leaders.asp
www.ThedogPress.com/Columns/Editorials/0510_Wrong_Horse.asp

Barbara (BJ) Andrews