Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. You see, God commanded Noah as the new representative of the human race, that the eating of animal flesh for food was God ordained and right. However, although we have the right to use animal flesh for food, clothing and for research, the way we treat the animals, God is indeed, interested in. Every human being, especially Christians have an obligation to preserve animal life by caring for it. A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
Human beings have no right to abuse any animal for any reason.
Research that abuses animals is always wrong, farm use and care that abuses animals is always wrong, and painful killing of animal life for food and clothing is always wrong. I for one stand with anybody against the hurt and harm of animals in the process of using them as God intended. But, to go so far as ban their use, to promote vegetarianism, and stop the use of them in research is to deny the God of creation and His Word to us. Human beings are duty bound to preserve the earth. The first and foremost environmentalist should be every Christian, but preserving it can only go so far, for if such acts jeopardize the health safety and welfare of human life, it must be secondary to it.