Spotlight on Animal Rights from Free-Market.
Creature comforts Creature comforts Love for animals seems to run deep in western culture.
Favored pets enjoy medical care of a quality comparable to anything available to humans. Companies make their fortunes peddling pricey packaged chow for cats who'd be just as happy to gnaw on well-aged roadkill. And even the toughest hunters gets ticked-off when they see the neighbors kicking a dog. Some people certainly believe so. As the radical standard-bearer of the animal rights movement, PETA argues that animals in general are every bit as capable of feeling pain as humans, and as worthy of protection as the planet's most successful breed of primate.