Animal rights terrorists
Tony’s spot on on this. I keep ending up in arguments with them on Cornmarket Street, and much as there used to be an art to taking National Front stickers down with one tear in the seventies, I feel I’m developing some expertise with the ones covered in names and addresses of academics involved in research that includes animal testing, which sprout every so often across the city. Now, what I really need is a pledge card of facts about why they are scientifically wrong to keep in my purse - anyone found any good ones?
Place to go is the AMRC website, especially:
http://www.amrc.org.uk/index.asp?id=77
Unfortunately the AMRC site was apparently designed by a baboon and the useful links from that page are buried almost invisibly in the bottom left hand corner of the page in the blue menu bar, but that’s the place to go.
I might try and turn the information into useful little pledge cards for people over Christmas.
Well, I have to disagree on this one. For another point of view you might want to check out: http://www.curedisease.net/
Now, I would be the first to agree that many animal rights protestors are immensely counter-productive to their own cause, incapable of interacting helpfully with other human beings, and ludicrously focused on this one issue above all others. However, that doesn’t actually mean that they might not have a point….
I’ve never felt *hugely* strongly about animal welfare - I’ve never been on an animal rights march, and find it difficult to get really passionate about - but from the debates and discussions that I’ve heard, and from my viewpoint of morality, I think that animal rights protestors have a valid point of view. Calling them all ‘terrorists’ or ‘loonies’ isn’t very helpful, because it certainly isn’t representative of those many people (including health professionals, biologists etc) who agree with at least some of what they are saying.
Matt
P.S. Antonia - you actually agree with this!!??:
>I can’t believe that people can still be considered to >have the right of free speech to protest against this, >when they are complicit with groups that have abandoned >the responsibility to value others’ lives. I can’t believe >that the continuing protesters are not being arrested and >questioned about what they know about the death threats >etc.
if everyone who is against animal cruelty is a terrorist,one should look at who is responsible for the deaths of innnocent people in irac,animals cannot speak for themselves and you only have to watch footage of slaughter houses,the killing of the baby seals ,undercover footage in labs ,cats and dogs skinned alive in china and korea,domestic animal cruelty, and endless more ,you can read about all these and more everyday in all newspapers,
humans do these deeds because they can and do get away with it .this is the animals planet as well as ours to live on,you would not take your cat or dog to the vet to be humanly put to sleep at the end of its life to save it from suffering,by allowing the vet to whack a great big hook in the animals head.
all living creatures feel pain ,get scared, and bleed,we are all the same ,humans are just a bit bigger .