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  • Puppy-Killer PETA, Chew On Your Own Words
    - June 29, 2005 [Center for Consumer Freedom]

  • PETA's dirty war against Jewish ritual slaughter
    - Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, February 25, 2005 [WorldNetDaily]

  • The Other Terrorists
    - Alan Caruba, June 21, 2004 [Capitalism Magazine]

  • The Myth of Animal Rights
    - Tibor R. Machan, March 15, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

  • The Terror of "Animal Rights"
    The "animal rights" movement is celebrating its latest victory: an earlier, more painful death for future victims of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's disease. - Alex Epstein, February 8, 2004 [Capitalism Magazine]

  • Animal Rights Absurdity
    They cannot warrant moral equity with humans when morality means nothing to them. - Scott McPherson, October 22, 2003 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

  • Protecting Whales
    - Scott McPherson, September 8, 2003 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

  • PETA ideals drive businesses away
    Tenants told to 'relocate' ants, not exterminate them. - September 8, 2003 [WorldNetDaily]

  • Gone Fishin' -- Guilt Free
    Animal-rights activists consider my daughter and me, and millions of other recreational fishers like us, immoral barbarians for practicing catch-and-release. The latest anti-fishing attack centers on new research purporting to show that fish feel pain when hooked. - Michelle Malkin, August 13, 2003 [Capitalism Magazine]

  • PETA likens chickens to Holocaust victims
    - Diana Lynne, February 25, 2003 [WorldNetDaily]

  • Animal Planet Antidote
    - Humberto Fontova, August 9, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

  • Medical Students: Not Tested on Animals
    The Federal government must get out of the business of legislating morality as its attempts to do so result in contradictions. - Dr. Henry Heffner, July 15, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

  • The Paradox of "Animal Rights," or, Please Pass the Hamburgers
    "...in seeking to have human beings treat animals as if they are human beings, the animal rights movement defeats its own arguments." - David Dieteman, August 20, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

  • Fish First, People Last
    "Unfortunately, Klamath Falls’ situation is not unique." - Jeff Elkins, July 17, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

  • Shark versus Boy
    "Few among us would have hesitated at this choice: boy's arm versus life of shark. Of course the boy's arm is more important, and so the shark had to go."

    Yet, there are millions of animal-rights advocates around the world, many of them Hollywood celebrities with easy access to talk shows and news reporters, who have remained completely silent about their professed view—namely, that human beings are not more important than non-human animals." - Tibor R. Machan, July 11, 2001 [Mises]

  • Shark Week
    "Here we go again. "Shark Week" on the Discovery Channel. I gotta hand it to the show’s producers. They’re in an bind. They know how you get good ratings on U.S. TV: you scare people. So they’ll revel in slow motion footage: the cruel hooded eyes, below them rows of huge serrated teeth that chomp, twist and rip child-sized chunks off some ox carcass. Vicious killers, these sharks." - Humberto Fontova, June 6, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

  • The Evil of Animal "Rights"
    - Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein, May 18, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

  • PETA Should Rename Itself 'The Inhumane Society'
    "The myth is that PETA pushes the envelope a little in its merciful zeal to fight the mistreatment of animals. The truth is that PETA detests human beings." - Jeff Jacoby, April 3, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

  • How Protecting a Fly Hurt the Sick
    "U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service bureaucrats have held up construction of a hospital in Southern California and threatened county officials with heavy fines and arrests -- all in the name of saving the Delhi Sands flower-loving fly." - [NCPA]

  • Goshen: Animal rights activists vandalize McDonald's
    "The McDonald's corporation did not wish to comment, but local business owners were upset. 'As a small business owner, vandalism always angers me because it's an added expense we shouldn't have to have,' said Mike Lamb. 'What good is that doing for animal rights? To me it's totally ridiculous.'" - October 25, 2000 [WNDU TV]

  • PETA hires Jesus Christ?
    "The truth is that not only is evidence for Jesus' membership in the meat-eschewing Essenes a lot like a malnourished fruitarian -- a bit thin -- but evidence to the contrary, that Christ ate meat and condoned it, is in abundance." - Joel Miller, October 6, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]

  • Got bad taste?
    "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is back on the warpath, and this time it's New York Pooh-bah Rudy Giuliani with a tomahawk in the noggin." - Joel Miller, August 25, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]

  • The Myth of Animal Rights
    "Talking, therefore, about animal rights is a confusion and misguides our thinking about our proper relationship with the rest of the animal world." - Tibor R. Machan, July 25, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]

  • Governments Sacrifice Humans for Bears
    "Surprise! Surprise! Wolves are once again slaughtering ranchers' cattle, but this time it's the overtaxed Canadian who is forced to compensate the rancher (albeit at 80% of the value)." - Glenn Woiceshyn, September 1, 2000 [Capitalism Magazine]

  • Pack this, PETA
    "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals now wants the Green Bay Packers football team to change its name." - Joel Miller, June 27, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]

  • Animal Rights Activists Turn Rabid, Researchers Say
    "At least two nonprofit groups monitoring the activities of militant animal rights activists say the scope of their targets is expanding and the severity of their attacks is escalating." - Jane A. Zanca, February 20, 2000 [APBnews.com]

  • The madness of the animal rights movement
    "Social workers in Scotland recently rescued a pet monkey from the filthy, drug-infested apartment of a couple of heroin addicts. Contacting an animal welfare group, the social workers took great pains to make sure the animal was removed from the squalid cesspool of a home.
    But the social workers neglected to do anything about the little girl living with the couple." - David Kupelian, February 4, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]

  • Sacrificing humans to save animals?
    "The latest issue of Animal Times, the quarterly publication of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, announces the group's grants to companies developing human embryo testing as one of the alternatives to the use of rats and other beasts in product safety tests." - Joseph Farah, January 10, 2000 [WorldNetDaily]

  • Babbitt's Big Mistake
    "The Real Story Behind His Endangered Species Recovery Announcement." - July 15, 1998 [NWI]

  • Animals and the Market
    "Whenever environmentalists want to curtail freedom they remind us that man is part of nature, but they forget this at all other times. The fact is that human action is just one among the myriad factors, right along with those floods and droughts and comets, that determine who succeeds in the struggle for life." - Michael Levin, November 1997 [Mises]

  • Animal Rights: Teaching or Deceiving Kids
    - Deborah Runkle and Ellen Granger, September 5, 1997 [junkscience.com]

  • Animal Rights Activists Attempt to Injure Dogs at Coursing Event
    Needless to say these people were arrested, but still the point is when you resort to hurting people and animals to protect another animal...you are beyond an animal lover, you are certifiable!

  • Animal "Rights" and the New Man Haters
    "There is only one proper answer to such people: to declare proudly and defiantly, in the name of morality, a man’s right to his life, his liberty, and the pursuit of his own happiness. - Dr. Edwin Locke [Ayn Rand Institute]

  • Animal's "Rights" Versus Man's Rights
    "Human life versus animal life. This fundamental conflict of values was dramatized on June 23 in Washington D.C., when an animal rights march was opposed by AIDS victims marching in support of research on animals." - Dr. Edwin Locke [Ayn Rand Institute]

  • Animal Rights in a Free Society
    "In a libertarian society, protecting the rights of the people would be the utmost priority of the government." - Dr. Mary J. Ruwart [Self-gov.org]



Government Hypocrisy
  • Falling Through the Cracks of Animal Services
    - Thomas Luongo, April 1, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

  • Wildlife Services: Overview
    The largest portion of Wildlife Services' budget goes towards its "livestock protection" program - a program that kills "predators" or animals such as coyotes, wolves, foxes, bears and bobcats that can prey on domestic sheep, goats or cattle. - [Green Scissors]

  • Mass. Libertarians save puppies from the taxman
    "On July 8, the Dartmouth Libertarian Town Committee presented a check for $1,250 to the Fairhaven Animal Shelter. The money, raised from local Libertarians, replaced the big tax bite the state government had taken out of a successful raffle held by the shelter." - September 1999 [LP News]




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