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Exposed: The lies, moral confusion, and increasingly violent tactics of the "animal rights" movement
A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy
by Wesley J. Smith
If "animal rights" activists had their way, service
dogs -- canines specially bred and trained to help people
with blindness and other disabilities -- would not exist.
They believe all instrumental uses of animals are immoral,
no matter how harmless to the animals or how beneficial to
humans. And so, for the past three-plus decades, they have
mounted an increasingly radical campaign aimed at the
eventual "liberation" of animals from humans -- a campaign
that has left virtually no animal use untouched. Now, in A
Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy (the title is a slogan of
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), Wesley Smith
exposes the profoundly antihuman ideology of the animal
rights/liberation movement, exposes its many deceptions,
and warns against its increasingly violent tactics.
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Smith reveals how, although animal rights groups do
sometimes engage in animal welfare-type activism, the term
"animal rights" actually denotes a belief system, even a
quasi-religion, which seeks to create a moral equivalency
between the value of human lives and those of animals. He
shows how animal rights ideologues embrace this belief with
a fervency that is remarkably intense and sustained, to the
point that some engage in vandalism, harassment, or even
terrorism at the expense of medical research, the clothing
and food industries, and others accused of "animal abuse."
To counteract this perverse ideology, Smith mounts an
unequivocal defense of "human exceptionalism" -- the belief
that human beings stand uniquely at the pinnacle of moral
worth -- and defends the use of animals as necessary and
appropriate to promote human welfare, prosperity, and
happiness.
In A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy, you'll also learn
about:
- The important differences between animal welfare or
animal protection on the one hand, and so-called animal
"rights" on the other
- The common belief that unites the disparate animal
rights/liberation approaches: that it is wrong to treat
human beings different from animals (aka "speciesism")
- How Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer's call to grant
animals "equal consideration" with people jump-started
what became the animal rights/liberation movement
- How various animal rights advocacy programs are playing
out in the public square, some with alarming success --
e.g., the Great Ape Program, which demotes humans into
members of a "community of equals" that includes apes
- How pregnant pigs have been given certain constitutional
rights under the Florida constitution -- and other legal
victories for the animal rights movement
- How your children are being proselytized by animal
rightists, often in the schools
- How the terrorists within the animal rights movement are,
if not mainstream, hardly outcasts among co-believers
- Exposed: the false claim that using animals in research
is scientifically unnecessary and harmful to human health
- Animals as food: why, although our raising of food
animals does entail important animal welfare issues, meat
is a natural and proper part of our diet
- In defense of fur, zoos, and hunting
"Like any antihuman ideology, 'animal rights'
ultimately deteriorates into a nihilistic bitterness that
is anti-life. ... Wesley J. Smith knows too well that if
the activists ever succeeded in their goals, if they
established through culture or law that human beings have
no intrinsic dignity greater than that of any animal, the
world would not be a better place for either humankind or
animals." -- Dean Koontz, bestselling novelist
"Exposes animal extremism for what it really is: a
threat to both animal and human well-being. Long on fact
and logic, A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy will frustrate
those animal rightists who use fallacious logic and
erroneous 'facts' to buoy their arguments." -- P. Michael
Conn, scientist and co-author of The Animal Research War
"A chilling, authoritative account of the danger that
animal rights extremism poses to medical progress and is
one that I highly recommend to a general audience." --
Adrian R. Morrison, author of An Odyssey With Animals: A
Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights & Welfare
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Mr Smith makes a number of false charges in his promotion of multinational pharmaceutical funded animal research, a trillion dollar business of inflicting pain on voiceless animals, and of multinational butcher and fast food consumption of animals.
He ignores the ethical, environmental,
energy, health and prolific yield arguments for becoming vegan.
There are over 20,000 decentralized
animal rights groups listed at WorldAnimalNet Dot Org. It is the largest movement in the world. Because it is changing the economics of butchers, the movement has been attacked.
O Anna Niemus
The best book I have read in a while!!!! PETA is a sick and twisted organization full of lies, deception and completely hypocritical. They are sick people with no real value on human life, for them, animals are more important. Give me a break!
Just like every other liberal agenda the Animal Rights movement is truly interested in only one thing, POWER!!! AR Activists are interested in killing capitalism. Mr. Smith wisely points out that the "rank and file" PETA member is looking to be a "do gooder" and with that enthusiasm gradually move to criminal acts including act of Terror. This book is a must read if you are involved with animals in any form because AR wants you to give up your animals and more importantly treat them as you would your human family. Doesn't make sense, because it's just wrong
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