I have been against “animal rights” since I first learned what motivates the core philosophy of the agenda: it is anti-human thinking that believes the Earth would be better off if humans were wiped from the face of the planet.
It is an agenda that includes the extermination of pets as founding members feel they would be better off not existing as they have been manipulated by humans to be our “slaves.”
I’ve been watching the words and actions of key players in the movement since the early 90s.
Animal rights isn’t about ending cruelty to rodeo animals—it’s about terminating the human-horse relationship and brainwashing the masses to stop eating beef and chicken, eggs and cheese.
(I started writing this weeks ago and it’s been living in my drafts. Seemed timely to finish it up and publish.)
Support animal welfare. Treat animals humanely.
Support local humane organizations. Donate food and other necessities.
Support education for pet owners, such as affordable spay/neuter programs.
Stop empowering PETA, HSUS and other lobbying groups from taking rights away from families who have raised animals for generations.
I was irritated to see that a well-meaning friend had inadvertently sent me a SuperPoke on Facebook that promoted the animal rights cause. This cattle farmer would have never deliberately supported an animal rights agenda, but it was slipped in with a cutesy “adopt a pet” message.
PETA doesn’t want you to adopt pets. PETA killed 97% of the animals it claimed to “rescue” last year. Adoptable animals, young and healthy, killed by the score and dumped in the trash—or stacked in their huge walk-in freezer.
When your life is threatened due to your stance on an issue, it becomes more than just an opinion.
PeTA is Michael Jackson. No one would leave their small child or dog with him, but as long as he isn’t in their living room, he’s considered harmless. Never mind the walk-in freezer in the back for the bodies.
HSUS is Michael Jackson in a very convincing Mister Rogers mask. Most people trust him because on the outside he seems completely harmless, associated with good and wholesome things. Peel away the layers, and you find an organization run with the same basic leaders and fundamental beliefs as PeTA.
The good work that many local humane societies do has nothing to do with HSUS. They are a powerful political lobbying group. No one that I would leave a small child or dog with unattended.
To be honest, I’m not real familiar with Penn and Teller. I’ve heard the names, many times to be sure, but I had never seen what either of them looked like, or sounded like. My first exposure to them was a video I found entitled, “Bulls**t.”
I watched it because it had to do with radical animal rights terrorist group PeTA. You don’t have to know me for long, to learn that I am not an animal rights freak. Rights? Like, to vote? To bear arms? To freedom of the press? Not for critters.
Now, I totally support animal welfare. Because I’m anti-AR does not mean I am pro-torture, or pro-bullfighting, or pro-cockfighting. I believe in treating animals humanely. But that doesn’t mean I believe that my dog has the right to run free without collar or leash, or that my horse has the right to not be ridden on quiet trails in the woods. I don’t think the neighbor’s cow has the right to live a long life of luxury and never be a cheeseburger. I believe she should be treated humanely and slaughtered quickly. I don’t think a deer has the right to eat all of the field corn it wants and never become venison sausage.
I did quite a bit of research on the Humane Society of the United States recently, given their opposition to hunting. I support my neighbor’s right to hunt and eat whatever legal game he chooses, whether it is a cute animal or not. Although HSUS comes off as a more mainstream, animal welfare group, the words of its leaders paint a more vivid and realistic picture. They share the same ideals as PeTA: no meat, no milk or eggs, no leather or wool, no animal use at all, not even pets. HSUS is not the same as your local animal shelter, which probably gives a damn about the animals. They don’t run any animal shelters. They are a political group. They oppose stronger penalties for domestic terrorism. They support legislation that cripples many small family farms.
Your right to swing your arm, ends at my face.
I would never expect someone to blindly believe everything I say. So do some research. Read what both sides have to say about the other. If after all of that, you decide you want to be a vegan, you have my blessing. All I ask is that you don’t try to make ME become a vegan too. I respect your rights, even though I may not agree with your lifestyle. Afford me the same. (Don’t worry, I won’t try to make you like venison. More for me.)
