Gotta love these pearls of wisdom, (faux pearls, of course, real wisdom):

“The ‘carnivore’s’ only dilemma seems to be one of sourcing: where to buy his ‘meat.’ If you think killing animals for food when you don’t have to can ever be called ‘humane,’ you certainly aren’t having a serious ethical dilemma,” wrote Mary Martin.

Killing animals or paying people to kill animals is NOT, I repeat NOT, an ethical behavior. It’s not a neutral behavior. It’s an immoral behavior. There is NO SUCH THING AS HUMANE MEAT. Even if stealing the life from animals were done in a completely pain-free manner, it’s still wholly unnecessary killing, which cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be deemed moral. Furthermore, some small segment of the human population is cruel. They will torture animals if given a chance. The ONLY way to prevent animal cruelty in animal agriculture is to go vegan.

“Anyone who’s ever enjoyed a friendship with a cat or a dog or a horse (or any other animal they’ve befriended for that matter) will tell you, intuitively, losing a companion animal is not like losing any other item. Not even a ‘valuable’ item like a car or a home. But the legal system has turned a blind eye to that value since the beginning of recorded legal history – if not the entire history of human civilization. Persuading courts to see that value – and mind you I’m just talking about genuinely recognizing the value of animals to their owners, not acknowledging the value of an animal’s life to itself or (heaven forbid…) taking animals out of property status – is one of the great challenges facing animal law today.” from Animal Law Blog.

Sadly, our legal system tends to reduce human life to dollar values as well. At least, though, children are not regarded (any longer) as the property of their parents/guardians.

“more than 160 primates who are locked up in Yale’s laboratories are the subjects of many cruel experiments, several of them drug-related. Some of the more heinous abuses include injecting toxins into monkeys’ brains so that they can’t walk, move or eat, addicting the monkeys to PCP to induce schizophrenia (excuse me?) and addicting them to nicotine by giving them the equivalent of smoking 17 packs of cigarettes per day. Because, ya know, exposing a monkey to 17 packs’ worth is really reflective of an average human smoker’s habits. Right.

“The vivisectors at Yale are even killing pregnant monkeys and removing their fetuses in order to cut out their brains. If this were happening anywhere else, it would be condemned as psychopathic, murderous behavior—but because it’s done in the name of “science,” we’re expected to accept this.” from the PETA blog.

This is MAD science, not science. This is insanity, not investigation. This is evil, not evolution.

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