Re: Peta, peta, peta
Revealing comments from PETA/animal rights leaders<br /><br />NO CONCERN FOR ANIMAL WELFARE<br /><br />"I don't believe that people have the right to life. That's a supremacist <br />perversion. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." -Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder <br />and national director of PeTA<br /><br />"The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of <br />animal welfare.Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and <br />non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those <br />changes, then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal <br />rights." -Gary Francione, former general council, People for the ethical <br />Treatment of Animals (PeTA).<br /><br />"Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare <br />separated by irreconcilable differences.the enactment of animal welfare <br />measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights." -Gary <br />Francione and Tom Regan. "The Case for Animal Rights", In Defense of <br />Animals, 1985<br /><br />"We were not especially interested in animals. Neither of us had ever been <br />inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. <br />We didn't love animals." -Peter Singer, known as the "father of animals <br />rights."<br /><br />ANTI-HUMAN<br /><br />"Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on <br />earth." -Michael Fox, vice president, Human Society of the United States<br /><br />"Mankind is the biggest blight on the face of the earth." -Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA<br /><br />"Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler <br />chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses." -Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA<br /><br />ANTI - BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH<br /><br />"If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make any <br />difference to me." -Chris Rose, director Last Chance for Animals<br /><br />"An (animal) experiment cannot be justified unless the experiment is so <br />important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable." <br />-Peter Singer<br /><br />"Even if animal tests produced a cure (for AIDS), we'd be against it." <br />-Ingrid Newkirk<br /><br />"If it (abolition of animal research) means there are some things we cannot <br />learn, then so be it. We have no basic right not to be harmed by those <br />natural diseases we are heir to." -Tom Regan, "America's New Extremists: <br />What You Need to Know About the Animal Rights Movement."<br /><br />ANTI-PET OWNERSHIP<br /><br />"Pet Ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human <br />manipulation." -Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA<br /><br />"(Pets) are slaves, even if well-kept slaves." -PeTA's Statement on <br />Companion Animals
