Just to illustrate how
seriously some animal rights activists take their admonition to give equal
consideration to animal interests, an activist posted a note to an animal
rights email list a few weeks ago angry at C-SPAN’s excellent morning
show.
Was the activist angry at some positive coverage of the animal industry,
or perhaps its highlighting of an advance in medical research? Nope, according
to the activist, “The C-SPAN morning show has come under criticism
for requiring a daily newspaper headline, requiring participants to be
involved in the hundreds of millions of trees, birds, squirrels, etc.
killed annually for newsprint.” Wow. Now if we could just get the
activists to understand that millions of birds, squirrels, etc., are also
killed producing the vegetables they consider to be cruelty-free we’d
be getting somewhere.