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People who visit cruel and senseless suffering on lower animal forms are sick and sadistic. Accordingly, there is a place for a voice against such. As is often the case, however, that which is good in principal becomes bad when carried to an extreme. The Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s policies that exalt the welfare of creatures at the expense of human suffering demonstrate this claim. Another example of animal \u201crights\u201d extremism is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). This organization is filled with dedicated Humanists who believe humankind are mere soul-less animals. These are the misguided folk who picket (and sometimes employ violence) against fur coat manufacturers and wearers and medical experimentation on animals. PETA folk asked England\u2019s oldest pub to change its name from \u201cYe Olde Fighting Cocks\u201d to \u201cYe Olde Clever Cocks\u201d in deference to \u201cintelligent, sensitive chickens\u201d (the website from which this information was obtained is no longer active).<\/span><\/p>\n

Consider some observations concerning such extremes:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. They elevate lower forms of life to the same level as (if not above) that of human beings. (Of course, one must conclude that they are at least equals if he assumes that blind evolution explains the existence of all life forms.) If a researcher started experimenting on human beings instead of white mice or guinea pigs, he would be carried off in a straitjacket, but his practice would be consistent with the premise of the \u201canimal rights\u201d activists.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Where do the activists stop? If we let them take experiments on animals away from us, what do they suggest in their place? (Will they offer themselves in place of rats, and if not, why not?) If they get so exercised over a fur coat, will they tolerate a plain leather coat? If they deny us a leather coat, what about our belts, shoes, wallets, and purses? Where do they stop?<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. This issue has some abortion implications. Amazingly, the same activists who work themselves into a frenzy over preserving a Tennessee snail darter, an unhatched eaglet, or a whale will often be found screaming for a woman\u2019s \u201cright\u201d to murder her own offspring in her womb. By what warped, twisted, perverted, insane \u201clogic\u201d such can happen, sane folk can hardly comprehend. But such occurs every day in our confused times.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What does God\u2019s Word say about animal \u201crights\u201d and man\u2019s place in the hierarchy of physical beings?<\/span><\/p>\n