Animal Rights groups are a danger to you and your pet!

I generally try not to plagiarize hard-working journalists nor duplicate the efforts of other writers. I prefer to link to their articles and let you get your info directly from the horses’ mouths, so to speak.

An article in the Magic City Morning Star (Maine), however, caught my attention. In particular, the quotes at the end of the article, quotes from Animal Rights leaders, are worth repeating here.

The original article by Nick Van Duren, Colorado Director for Responsible Dog Owners of the Western States, is a definite must-read. Below, I have included the quotes from the end of his article.

“Anybody who shoots a pit bull running loose is justified”

– Kory Nelson, Assistant City Attorney of Denver, CO, San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, June 27, 2005 (Known all over as Denver’s “Dr. Death of Dogs”)

“We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding. . . One generation and out. We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.”

– Wayne Pacelle, Senior VP of Humane Society of the US, formerly of Friends of Animals and Fund for Animals, Animal People, May, 1993. NOTE: (Wayne Pacelle’s initial training was as a PeTA activist. Today he heads HSUS under the guise of “legitimacy”. It is the largest and most profitable of the animal Rightist lobbying organizations.

“Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.”

– Ingrid Newkirk, national director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), Just Like Us? Harper’s, August 1988, p. 50.

“As John Bryant has written in his book Fettered Kingdoms, they [pets] are like slaves, even if well-kept slaves.”

– PeTA’s Statement on Companion Animals.

“We are not especially ‘interested in’ animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn’t ‘love’ animals.”

– Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd ed. (New York Review of Books, 1990), Preface, p. ii.

“Our goal: to convince people to rescue and adopt instead of buying or selling animals, to disavow the language and concept of animal ownership.”

– Eliot Katz, President In Defense of Animals, In Defense of Animals website, 2001

“It is time we demand an end to the misguided and abusive concept of animal ownership. The first step on this long, but just, road would be ending the concept of pet ownership.”

– Elliot Katz, President “In Defense of Animals,” Spring 1997

“The cat, like the dog, must disappear… We should cut the domestic cat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist.”

– John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic (Washington, DC: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), 1982, p. 15.

“My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture.”

– JP Goodwin, employed at the Humane Society of the US, formerly at Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade, as quoted on AR-Views, an animal rights Internet discussion group in 1996.

“Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.”

– Michael W. Fox, Scientific Director and former Vice President, Humane Society of the United States, as quoted in Robert James Bidinotto

“We are not terrorists, but we are a threat. We are a threat both economically and philosophically. Our power is not in the right to vote but the power to stop production. We will break the law and destroy property until we win.”

– Dr. Steven Best, speaking at International Animal Rights Gathering 2005. The Telegram (UK) July 17, 2005.

“Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are ‘acceptable crimes’ when used for the animal cause.”

– Alex Pacheco, Director, PETA

“Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.”

– Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA’s founder and president, US News and World Report, April 8, 2002

“I openly hope that it [hoof-and-mouth disease] comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment.

– Ingrid Newkirk, PeTA founder and president, ABC News interview April 2, 2001

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