I personally believe there is room for both PETA and the HSUS, for animal welfare as well as animal rights organizations, for organizations that use shock and those that use love. Some people see the light in a flash and others are very slow to grasp that there is some sense in the animal rights movement. Some people never reach a point where they can give up meat, for example, yet these same people can be invaluable in saving animals in an emergency or volunteering at an animal shelter. Or giving money to animal organizations. To me the individual animals matter.

I don’t react well to intimidating tactics and what I feel are condescending statements. But some people react positively, may find that at last they have found a group that echoes their own feelings. Sometimes it is hard not to be angry.

I have heard complaints about certain members of the “women’s movement” as well – that some women undermine the whole movement by their individual actions. No they don’t. They are human and are finding their own way, and so are we, those of us who believe in animal rights.