The experiments done on a few rats and chimps will benefit everyone, yet the activists are trying to prevent that. Animal rights activists claim that all animals are equal to humans. This means that a rat has the same value as a human boy, and if it were up to PETA to choose between sacrificing a rat and a boy, they would just flip a coin. It also implies that someone who cannot feel pain has no rights. In order to survive, they must kill each other for food.
Rights are ethical principals that can only apply to beings that can reason.
Animals survive through inborn reflexes, instinct and sensory perceptions. They cannot reason and they cannot learn a code of ethics. These self-styled lovers of animals are preventing the medical treatment for millions of animals and humans because they do not love animals, as they declare, but because they hate humans. Ka Leo welcomes your questions and comments. Search Ka Leo O Hawai'i is the daily campus newspaper of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa .