After a campaign that included death threats, the theft of a family member’s human remains, and slander, animal rights terrorists have succeeded in shutting down a farm in the UK that raises guinea pigs for medical testing.
This is one of the reasons that I hate animal rightists. This was a family business destroyed by animal rights. A business that raised animals for medical experiments for the benefit of human kind. I’m sure that its closure is being celebrated by PETA and even many HSUS members in the US. :mad:
Their business wasn’t destroyed by animal rights. It was destroyed by violent, law-breaking assholes. The overwhelming majority of animal rights supporters do not engage in these kinds of tactics. There are certainly extremists who do participate, and others who condone them, but you simply can’t condemn everyone who holds that ideological position accountable for what the most extreme adherents do.
That said, the behaviour of the animal rights supporters who are described in that article is contemptible.
Pardon me if it takes a little while to actually wrap my head all the way around this concept, that of robbing the graves of family members of those you have a philosophical disagreement with. They’ve clearly become worse than the cause against which they’re fighting.
Animal rights extremists (PETA and their ilk) are idiots. In addition, they often seem to be violent, hateful idiots with no concept of how the world works.
You don’t want medical testing on animals? Fine. But, if that’s the case, you’d better stop taking asny kind of medication, or going to the hospital at all. Fuck you, you ignorant scum. I hope you can sleep soundly at ngiht knowing you ruined a family’s legitamate business. Hell, odds are, being a smaller, family owned breeding ground, the guinea pigs were treated a Hell of a lot better than at the larger, corporate “guinea pig factories” that will now do more business, since the medical testing companies need their animals from somewhere. It’s actually a step backwards for your moronic cause.
And threats of bombs, arson attempts, and brick hurling? These are the kinds of things that can kill people. But it’s ok, cause a few guinea pigs will live. :rolleyes:
Case of putting animals above people. Wonder if they are ever stricken with cancer, they will refuse any effective medication that was tested on animals.
UK animal right activists really seem to be a different sort of animal :smack: . IIRC, some of them had threatened to put poison in candy bars for some reason or another. Of course they also facilitated the escape of several minks a few years ago not bothering to realize that the minks were going to wreak havoc in the ecosystem that they were not native to.
Seriously. We have some fucking nutbars over here. I used to live right by the New Forest (a national park in the south of England), and while I was there some utter fucking idiots decided that a nearby mink farm deserved liberation. They broke in, let loose hundreds of mink (vicious tubular vermin that happen to have pretty fur), and in the process more or less wiped out the population of the endangered water vole in the south of England. Way to go, guys. Just fucking brilliant. Release non-indigenous predators into a fucking conservation area. “Run, my furbrothers!”
Wankers.
No, not animal rights people in general; just the morons.
Or using condoms, or wearing contact lenses, or using lubricants, or taking insulin, or using tampons, or even shampooing your hair. A world without animal testing would have a hell of a lot more dead and/or maimed humans in it. Although in some cases, I don’t know that that wouldn’t be an improvement.
I believe the rational she’s used in the past is that it’s OK for her to use because she is so vital to the cause of animal rights. :smack: :rolleyes: :wally :mad: :eek:
But violent, lawbreaking assholes tend to find reasons to be violent, lawbreaking assholes. If it weren’t animal rights, it would be anti-globalization, anti-abortion, violence in the name of some radical religion, or something else. It might not have been that specific farm, but it would have been something, somewhere.
So? Something being necessary for a bad act does not mean that it’s responsible for the act: it’s true that without the animal rights ideology this wouldn’t have occured; however, the same could also be said about any number of other things. For example, the farm wouldn’t have been protested if medical researchers didn’t use animals.
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