From: swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Scott Wood - EVENSONG)
Subject: What Animal "Rights" People are _Really_ Saying?
Summary: From article in SOS Alert of Aug / Sep 92 Outdoor Digest
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:43:28 GMT



             What the Animal "Rights" People Are _Really_ Saying?



	 My ideal is "a return to the garden of Eden where even the
	 animals are vegetarian."
				-Andrea Reed, Louisville Fund for Animals
				 (_Lexington_Herald_, 1990)

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	 A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
				-Ingrid Newkirk, People for the Ethical
				       Treatment of Animals (PETA)
				 (_Washingtonian_Magazine_, August 1986)

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	 The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a
	 human being.
				-Ingrid Newkirk, PETA

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	 Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion
	 broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.
				-Ingrid Newkirk (PETA)
				 (_Washington_Post_, Nov 13, 1983)

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	 We feel animals have the same rights as a retarded human child.
				-Alex Pacheco (PETA)
				 (_New_York_Times_, Jan 14, 1989)

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	 On leather jackets: That's the next step.  You have to take one
	 step at a time.  It was easier to start with fur.
				-Dan Matthews, Director of Fur Campaign, PETA
				 (_Detroit_News_, August 13, 1989)

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	 Never buy wool again.  Choose only cotton, synthetics and other
	 non-animal fibers.  The sheep are embarrassed when they are
	 shorn, sometimes they are nicked during the process, and they
	 get cold afterward.
				 (_PETA_News_, August 13, 1989)

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	 Pet ownership is an "absolutely abysmal situation brought about
	 by human manipulation."
				-Ingrid Newkirk, PETA
				 (_Washingtonian_Magazine_, August 1986)

                                  *   *   *

	 Humanity is the cancer of nature.
				-Dave Foreman, Earth First!

                                  *   *   *

	 Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.
				-John Muir, Founder of the Sierra Club

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	 If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make
	 any difference to me.
				-Chris Derose, founder and director of
					Last Chance for Animals

                                  *   *   *

	 The liberation of animal life can only be achieved through
	 the radical transformation of human consciousness and the
	 overthrow of the existing power structure.
				-Transpecies Unlimited
				 (_Readers_Digest_, June 1990)

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	 The animal rights movement is "part of a revolutionary
	 process aimed at restructuring the major institution of
	 society..."
				-Dr. Morgan, Mobilization for Animals
				 (from his book, _Love_and_Anger_,
				  an animal "rights" organizers handbook)

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	 Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are "acceptable
	 crimes" when used for the animals' cause.
				-Alex Pacheco (PETA)
				 (_Charleston,_W._VA_Gazette-Mail_,
				  Jan 15, 1989)

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	 I believe that this decade will see the first acts of true
	 violence.  Some may be accidental - like a bystander killed
	 in a bomb blast; some will be deliberate - like a vivesector
	 shot in the street.  The violence will confuse and divide us,
	 but it will be a temporary adjustment and then we will learn
	 to live with it.
				-Victoria Miller, ARKI: Canadian Animal
				  Rights Network, and former President,
				  Toronto Humane Society
				 (_Animals_Agenda_)

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	 The optimum human population of earth is zero.
				-Dave Foreman, Earth First!

                                  *   *   *

	 The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed
	 any tears.
				-Dave Foreman, Earth First!

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	Q:  What would happen...you have a child...the child is dying
	    of diabetes.  It needs an insulin injection.  The only way
	    way to get it is from a lamb.  Do you kill the lamb in order
	    to get the insulin so you can save the child, or do you let
	    the child die?

	A:  Well, I...would not even for my self...or for...I would not
	    knowingly have an animal hurt for me or my children, or
	    anything else.
				-Cleveland Amory, Fund for Animals
				 (_Larry_King_Show_, October 29, 1987)

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	 Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, "We'd be against it."
				-Ingrid Newkirk, PETA
				 (_Washington_Post_, May 30, 1989)


(Republished from the _Michigan_Outdoors_ Fred Trost's Outdoors Club
 _Outdoor_Digest_, pg. 37, August/September 1992 from the _SOS_Bureau_Alert!_)

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