The Rights Of Animals

In California, the new laws will result in huge increases in the price of: beef, milk, chicken products, eggs, etc. If the price of basic foods such as milk and eggs doubles, and beef goes up 500% this will impact the lower income folks who are now struggling the most. When lower income folks begin starving because they can't feed their children it will precipitate an interesting crisis discussion, do animal rights supersede people's right to reasonable priced food? No matter, Californians will soon endow animals with souls and the right to vote.

Oh, yeah, I forgot that the animal rights weirdos were in cahoots with the Democrats. Now that the Democrats rule the country animal rights activists will beg for tax money to fund their agenda, meat-eaters will be treated like smokers (higher taxes on meat, non-meat-eating sections in restaurants, etc.), propaganda commercials will depict some flea-beaten critter as a victim of abuse, etc. Next thing you know there will be tofu farms in place of dairy farms. What a bunch of imbeciles; sometimes I think the terrorists could run the country alot better than the riff-raff we got up there now, Uncle Remus and his bunch of thugs.

Please visit a farm or food producer before you make such general assumptions. Producers have their animals' well-being as the basis of their economic well-being. "Unhappy" chickens do not produce eggs.Free range chickens are at a far higher risk for self-destructive behaviors, cannabilism, and disease. Free range egg facilities increase the risk of zoonotic diseases (such as Avian Influenza), predation, and infectious diseases. There is limited accountability for eggs layed on free range farms. Caged systems allow for safer eggs (dramatically lowers the prevalence of Salmonella). What will likely result in California is the movement of egg producers out of the state to Mexico or neighboring states that do not have these laws. This will defeat the purpose of Proposition 2.
I know all this from first hand experience- I am a veterinarian.

Eorotrash you speak trash just like your name..Imagine if all guys like you apoke about women rights the same way..Why to bother about rights of women when men across the world are dying in war, flood, famine etc..YOur mother or sister would now still be in some harem sucking it up

NEWSWEAK: Making Even The Dumbest S..t Seem Interesting [with apologies to INSTAPUNDIT].

Oh to be sure,Singers screed will go down well in the BlueZone,among its vegan denizens. Forget it in the Red States [Or Obamas own Chicago for this matter where many of the great steakhouses can still be found]. One restaurant in Amarillo cranks out the ''Big Texan'',a 72-ounce behemoth that will scare away the lesser diner.[winners get their pictures on the wall and a t-shirt proclaiming their victory]. Diners from OK City to Omaha boast of six and eight -egg omelettes. Pork remains King in Iowa,where you can load up on buffet ham and bacon by the bucketload for less than seven bucks in Des Moines. Crabs in Frisco are dropped still-alive into steaming pots on Fishermans Wharf to feed hungry tourists,where you can literally hear the high-pitched ''screams'' of the ill-fated crustacean. Live fish in Seattle get a bop to the head with a thing resembling a Louisville Slugger where they are sold and shipped in their hundreds of thousands.

Meat isn't going anywhere. Singers meatless defense notwithstanding. It is simply too all-encompassing in the American diet,especially with the influx of the ethnics, predominantly Hispanics, who eat meat voraciously. Indeed,the very addition of ''Carne Asada''cuts,thin sliced meats and usually shop-seasoned,to accomodate this ethnic market, is a multi billion dollar business in the US with Mexican butchers and meat dressers springing up all over the country.

''The Scoops are coming... The scoops are on their way''

SOYLENT GREEN ,Charlton Heston,Edward G.Robinson,Chuck Connors. [1973].

In addition to idyllic Judeo-Christianity advocating vegetarianism (Genesis 1:29), so have many historical luminaries. They include Mahatma Gandhi, Empedocles, John Wesley, William Booth (the founder of the Salvation Army, ) Leo Tolsoy, Albert Schweitzer, Ellen G. White (The founder of the Seventh Day Adventists), Leonardo Da Vinci and former Indian President, Abdul Kalam.

When, in the course of animal events, it becomes necessary to dissolve the bonds of dominance by one animal species over all other animal species, and to assume the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the rights and welfare of animalkind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to act.
We, therefore, the often abused, slaughtered and eaten, and otherwise objects of derision and contempt by humankind, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World and the Universe, do solemnly publish and declare that we shall from here forward and forever be independent and revered animals, never again to submit to the unjust authority and abuses complained of by the said humankind.

To which below we set our paws, claws, fins, feathers and territorial poop and wee wee marks to this document.

And don't you forget it.

I groaned at the subject matter of this piece of non-news...speculation. I winced at the hopeful phrasing, realizing that it's really an opinion piece, an advocacy piece for something other than "animal rights". Finally, I laughed. Then, I lifted my hand to my mouth, made sure my canine (meat-ripping) teeth were still firmly implanted, and smiled.

Not true. Millions of buffalo do not compare to the Billions upon billions of cattle being raised for beef as we speak. Your arguments are non arguments. The truth is also that a plant based diet is the most healthy diet for the humane primate. Read the China Study.

Yo dead animal eaters...!!!wake up!!! Our modern fancy pants culture and our high tech society does its very best to cover up the massive amount of animal suffering caused by humans desire for the taste of animal flesh. Which is an unecessary requirement to live a healthy life. I've been vegan for 20 years and its the best choice I ever made. The real problem is that people do not want to know the truth behind the meat industry and when combined with the fact that our own culture hides it all from us makes for a very ignorant and unconcious population. When it comes to the reality of slaughterhouses humans who eat the products of death are not well informed. That is the real problem in all of this. If you can't watch it...you shouldn't eat it. Death and violence that is!!!
Go Vegan!!

I wonder what the god professor means by "...including limiting our own population growth." We are already doing this. Hasn't he heard of abortion? So far - in this country alone - we have "limited population growth" by more than 50 million. How much more does he want, and how does he want to do it? Oh, I forgot, we can always count on "assisted suicide", also known as euthanasia, and for this we have a practically unlimited supply of people.
This professor is a scary guy!