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Protesting Peter Singer
Animal Rights Agenda Threatens Human Rights
By Tom DeWeese
The protests against the presence of Peter Singer, known as the
father of the Animal Rights Movement, teaching at Princeton
University, raises questions once again about the true agenda of
the animal rights movement.
Animal-rights advocates represent one of the most absurd,
violent, destructive elements in our society. They use our
emotions and compassion to sucker good-hearted Americans into
their radical political agenda.
Animal rights advocates oppose animal welfare. Americans who
love animals must understand that animal rights, as articulated by
organizations such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,
will do away with wildlife management, veterinary medicine, and
captive breeding. It will end medical testing, a research process
responsible for today's modern medical miracles. Here, in
their own words, is what they stand for:
They Oppose Pet Ownership
"Pet Ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought
about by human manipulation." -- Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA
"(Pets) are slaves, even if well-kept slaves." --
PeTA's Statement on Companion Animals
An Anti-Human Philosophy
"I don't believe that people have the right to life.
That's a supremacist perversion. A rat is a pig is a dog is a
boy." -- Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and national director of
PeTA
"Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and
unethical animal on earth." -- Michael Fox, vice president,
Human Society of the United States
"Mankind is the biggest blight on the face of the
earth." -- Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA
"Six million people died in concentration camps, but six
billion broiler chickens will die this year in
slaughterhouses." -- Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA
"An (animal) experiment cannot be justified unless the
experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human
would be justifiable." -- Peter Singer
Animal Rights Advocates are Opposed to Biomedical Research
Even if animal tests produced a cure (for AIDS), we'd be
against it." -- Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA
"If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't
make any difference to me." -- Chris Rose, director Last
Chance for Animals
"If it (the abolition of animal research) means there are
some things we cannot learn, then so be it. We have no basic right
not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to."
-- Tom Regan, "America's New Extremists:
What You Need to Know About the Animal Rights Movement.
No Concern for Animal Welfare
"We were not especially interested in animals. Neither of
us had ever inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way
that many people are.
We didn't love animals." -- Peter Singer, known as the
"father of animals rights."
"The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with
the theory of animal welfare…Animal rights means dramatic social
changes for humans and non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values
prevent us from accepting those changes, then we have no right to
call ourselves advocates of animal rights." -- Gary Francione,
former general council, People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PeTA).
"Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal
welfare separated by irreconcilable differences…the enactment of
animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal
rights." -- Gary Francione and Tom Regan. "The Case for
Animal Rights", In Defense of Animals, 1985.
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