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Steve Milloy’s column this week (in our Columnist section) looks at the extremist animal rights groups like PETA—People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. That’s the one for which stellar scientists like Pamel Anderson parade around the world dispensing their wisdom, as Hollywood liberals are wont to do.
Here’s a snippet of PETA or Medical Research?:
[…] The crusade by animal rights extremists against medical research stoops far below respectful, non-violent philosophical difference.
“Early one recent morning, the wife of a pharmaceutical executive was followed to her workplace, her car was broken into and her credit cards were stolen; later $20,000 in unauthorized charitable donations were billed on her cards,” reported the Washington Post earlier this month.
The Post article continued, “The [Animal Liberation Front] activists, who have asserted responsibility, once scrawled “Puppy Killer” in red paint on the executive’s house and have posted the couple’s phone, license plate and bank account numbers on the Internet, along with this threat: “If we find a dime of that money granted to those charities was taken back, we will strip you bare’.”
While PETA has not resorted to such tactics, it appears to condone the Animal Liberation Front’s. Here’s what PETA has to say about the ALF: “Throughout history, some people have felt the need to break the law to fight injustice. The Underground Railroad and the French Resistance are both examples of people breaking the law in order to answer to a higher morality.” […]
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