All sarcasm aside, are these "animal rights" activists insane?
What sane person believes that it is a right to be forcibly sterilized?
Jesus Christ, they sound like the Chinese of prior days. - when they come for your children will they wrap it in "HUMAN RIGHTS" doublespeak??
Orwell is spinning!
Often yes. PETA probaly thought the proposal to sterilize pets meant popping them into the autoclave.
The problem — and the great victory of groups like PETA — is that the concepts of animal rights and animal welfare have gotten tangled up with each other. They’re not the same thing.
Animal welfare groups like the SPCA and Humane Society have goals that most of us, I think, would readily endorse — that animals should no be abused or mistreated, that they should not be neglected or abandoned, that they should not be bred for profit without regard to their health or safety, that there should not be more “pets” than there are homes for them.
Groups like PETA do not believe that people can or should “own” animals, and want to completely abolish the practice of keeping pets (or “companion animals”). They are also concerned with the domesticated animals forced to fend for themselves in the wild, something for which they are ill-adapted. Under their vision, the dogs and cats bred over thousands of years to make suitable companions for humans would gradually die out.
Their goals are not the same, but they overlap on the issue of spaying and neutering pets. Interestingly, Bob Barker is a hero to the animal welfare folks, according to one Humane Society official I talked to — in 30 years of saying “have your pets spayed or neutered” in a daily TV broadcast watched by millions, he has at least gotten people thinking about something that wasn’t much of an issue before. And the number of animals put to death in shelters has been cut by about 2/3 in that time.