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The whole premise behind animal rights is a belief that animal ownership is the same as owning slaves and that their struggle to achieve rights for animals is the moral equivalent of the civil rights or women's suffrage movements. These radicals view those who own animals as committing what they call "speciesism", an offense they claim is equal to sexism or racism.

"...a central goal of the animal rights movement - eliminating the idea that animals are property..."

--Animal Rights by Cass R. Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum (2005), pg 11

"Animal slavery has a grip on our society that is entirely like the stranglehold that African slavery had on the antebellum South."

--Norm Phelps, The Longest Struggle (2009), pg 28

Some fanatic animal rights believers advocate for "non-human" animals to be granted "personhood" and legal rights enabling individuals and groups to take owners to court on behalf of their animal. In reality, it is human life they wish to devalue, lowering us to a status equal with - or less than - animals

"Animal rights promotes the idea that people should have no more rights than animals. As PETA cofounder and national director Ingrid Newkirk puts it, "I don't believe human beings have the 'right to life'. That's a supremacist perversion. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy."

--AnimalScam by Kathleen Marquardt, Herbert M. Levine and Mark LaRochelle, pg. 5 (1993)

"A chimpanzee, dog, or pig, for instance, will have a higher degree of self-awareness and a greater capacity for meaningful relations with others than a severely retarded infant or someone in a state of advanced senility. So if we base the right to life on these characteristics we must grant these animals a right to life as good as, or better than, such retarded or senile humans."

--quoting Peter Singer in The Animal Rights, Environmental Ethics Debate by Eugene C. Hargrove (1992), pg 20




"The animal rights movement would allow people no more rights than rats or cockroaches. The real agenda of this movement is not to give rights to animals, but to take rights from people - to dictate our food, clothing, work, recreation, and whether we will discover new medicines or die. Animal rights pose an extraordinary threat to our health, freedom, and even our lives."

--AnimalScam by Kathleen Marquardt, Herbert M. Levine and Mark LaRochelle (1993), pg 6

The concept and doctrine of "animal rights" is far from mainstream. It is a radical belief. It is un-American. It is dangerous. You don't have to take my word for it because I have included a multitude of published quotes right from the horses' mouths... the leaders and founders of the animal rights movement, as well as a few well-versed experts. Their words are disturbing and, at the same time, revealing. Please read them carefully. These people are committed to their cause, are extremely well-funded and have well-established connections in all levels of government. Their words should be a wake-up call for those who support any animal rights organization - financially or otherwise.

"If we are serious about animal rights, we have a responsibility to stop bringing them into existence for our purposes. We would stop bringing all domestic animals into existence for human purposes."

--Gary L. Francione, Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of Law, An Interview with Professor Gary L. Francione on the State of the U.S. Animal Rights Movement, Friends of Animals, published on The Animal Spirit website.

Our "one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all" is quickly becoming a land of intolerance as these and other special interest groups seek to gain the power of the law to advance their fanatic agendas at the expense of liberty and justice. These radical animal rights groups believe that they should dictate to the rest of us how to live; what we can and can't do. Their demented goal is to create an utopian society where people cannot eat meat, eggs or dairy... cannot wear leather, fur or wool... cannot enjoy aquariums, zoos, circuses, rodeos, dog or horse races, field trials, hunt tests or dog shows... cannot hunt, trap or fish... cannot own, use or breed any animals... where advances in medicine are stifled and a place where guide dogs for the blind and service animals for the disabled are forbidden. These animal rightists have no respect for other peoples' freedom to decide these things for themselves... no respect for the US Constitution. Just intolerance. That's not the America I believe in and that our founding fathers sacrificed so much to establish and preserve.

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I am an Agronomist with a minor an Animal Science. I don't know how to cross-link so please search "People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants". PETP. It will crack you up pointing out the stupidity of Vegas.

Instead of typing in UKC, type in PETP.

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