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What exactly is the difference between AR and AW? The public is confused and Lawmakers are dangerously misled.
Well-meaning politicians pass laws they think are to protect animals.
Well-funded politicians pass ARA sponsored laws for other reasons.
Lawmakers must be re-educated, re-programmed.
Animal Rights. Animal Welfare.
The terms are not interchangeable.. Mankind is inherently protective and kind to animals.
The Animal Rights Activists (ARA) have an Agenda that capitalizes on our
love for animals, twisting the welfare issue to suit their political agenda.
We must guard against shifting the law to favor animal
rights over human rights. To do so would change our society forever. Under the
guise of protecting animals, we are being incrementally stripped of free choice and
freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution.
Europeans lost centuries of tradition when the equestrian sport of fox hunting
was outlawed. The fox is rarely killed yet our British friends lost an important
cultural and social activity.
Share these definitions with friends and family. Is sparing the life of a
slaughter animal worth giving up a child’s right to a best friend? Is a
loving, responsive playmate that teaches kindness and lays the foundation for
adult responsibilities to be cast aside in favor of perceived political
correctness? Tell that to your 8 year old!
We asked some of our Legislative experts to define the similar but contradictory terms:
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“Animal Rights
groups forbid captive animals. They want to ban all breeding. How are they
going to accomplish that if all the animals are running free? Animal Welfare
advocates responsible breeding to reduce genetic health problems and insure
loving homes for quality pets. Animals do not have “rights.” Humans have
inalienable rights. One of which is the right to provide for the welfare of
all animals, a right the “animal rights activists” would take from us.” -
Shirley Lawler
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“Animal
Welfare groups want you to treat all animals humanely but Animal Rights
groups want you to set your pets free!” - Nel Liquorman
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“Animal
Welfare responsibly interacting with animals in entertainment, industry,
sport, recreation and life while prioritizing proper care and management
whereas Animal Rights groups say humans have no right to keep animals for
any purpose and they would ban all animal use and ownership.” - Linda Witouski
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Our readers also had great insight
into the Animal
Rights vs Animal Welfare issue. To make things a
little less confusing, especially in print, we have
ceased using the acronym AR and replaced it with the
more "pronounceable" and accurate ARA, for Animal
Rights Activists or Agenda, take your
pick!
“HSUS has no shelter facility and
does not re-home dogs and cats, yet claims they are
for Animal Welfare. It appears to me that they abuse
their own philosophy, in which case they are just Animal
Rights hypocrites with big funds.”
"Animal Rights is but a wolf in
sheep's clothing. There are laws in every state
that provide for animal welfare. The whole AR
agenda is nothing but
a
political ruse to steal away human rights."
"PETA and other “Animal Rights” groups say we should have
no captive animals. They should all be free. They want
to ban all breeding until the shelters are empty. How
are they going to accomplish no-breeding if all the animals are
running free? Talk about an overpopulation problem! Give the AR activist a big 'stupid
sign'."
“Animal Rights” activists want no pet ownership, no
captive animals. No research animals to save human
lives. So what they really
want is unsupervised, indiscriminate, mass breeding?
Just think, Service and Therapy Animals are carefully
bred for specific reasons. They would all be gone."
"We are not guardians, nor are we stewards. We are
responsible pet owners who provide food, shelter, love
and companionship to our animals. In return they give us
boundless love, protection, and the same companionship
that we give them."
"Animal Rights thinks there should be no captive animals,
for pets, meat, milk, or any use. Animal Welfare feels
all animals should be treated humanely, regardless of
their purpose."
"Animals are not humans, therefore they have no human
rights despite what the cleverly-named “animal rights”
groups espouse. Animals do not have the
right to run free as advocated by PETA and other AR
activists. Running free would spread unchecked disease
to the human population."
“Animal Rights believes no one being should own or
control another, all companion and working animals
should be freed from our influence. In short no one
should have pets. Animal Welfare advocates believe any
animals in our care should be treated humanely." |