The Backlash From Animal Rights

The backlash against animal rights has grown considerable over the last five years or so. Today, there is even a *quack watch*. Hundred's of websites have sprung up all trying to inform us of the dangers of taking animal rights too far. There is no lack of ammunition one can use against animal rights. One website was about animal rights people attacking a 87 year old woman who had a hunting bumper sticker on her car. Another one I read about, was two PETA employees that were killing animals in the back of a PETA-owned van, and tossing the animals bodies into a dumpster located at a mall. Many of the reports were much worse.

Animal rights groups appear to be loosing ground.The police are getting much tougher with them and they are losing their long war against scientific experimentation on animals. The issue of human rights has come up more then once. Was this a wake up call?? Did animal rights groups forced us to examine animal and human rights issues more closely. Have we then,as a people, have a much better understanding for ourselves of what we want and what we don't?

Here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, we had a rash of cats mutilations in Aug./2007. Was this someone with mental health problems or was this more animal rights backlash? In Dec.2007, four dumb kids put a cat in a microwave. The media attention this got was considerable. In May 2007, a man put his baby in the microwave in Galveston, Texas. Did anyone hear about that?? Kinda makes you wonder...