The American Spectator

The Nation's Pulse

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organizations, that equate animal husbandry with the Holocaust and believe that, "The leather sofa and handbag are the moral equivalent of the lampshades made from the skins of people killed in the death camps." Fellow traveler Pete Singer, author of Animal Liberation , knows (PDF) who the enemy really is: br> /p>

[H]owever sympathetically you interpret the Judeo-Christian religious tradition, it puts animals in a fundamentally different category from human beings....I think in the end we have, reluctantly, to recognize that the Judeo-Christian religious tradition is our foe.

br> And their influence is growing. In addition to the scolding warnings at various zoos, the cities of Berkeley, CA and Boulder, CO have passed laws stating that people who have pets do not "own" them; rather, they are the pet's "guardian."Animal rights activists insidiously play on the emotions of pet owners in their campaign to devalue human life, and the Vick case plays right into their hands.

But America is still overwhelmingly a country under the Christian influence, and hopefully as such, its citizens will see through the "animal rights" canard and enjoy their steaks without guilt, and their pets without cruelty, and thank God for both.

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