While riding along a highway today, I saw a billboard encouraging people to hunt. "There's plenty of game to go around," it said. Just a few yards away was another billboard, encouraging women not to have abortions. The billboards do not, I'm sure, appear out of sync to the people who live in the towns right off of that highway. What kind of culture is it that condemns people for not bringing a fetus to full term, but encourages them to go and kill living creatures?

Oh, I know...hunting is vital because the animals' habitats are overcrowded. Yes, their habitats are overcrowded because we took them away to build strip malls and subdivisions.

What it all comes down to is--most people believe that humans are superior to other living creatures. Some of us do not believe that (What evidence is there that we are superior? Think about it.) But for the sake of argument, let's say we are superior.

In that case, what happened to all of the people who are opposed to euthanasia and stem cell work because "we might play God"? Apparently, it doesn't bother them at all that our belief in our superiority alllows us to hunt down, torture, eat and wear non-humans.

The hypocrisy is overwhelming.

And there's more. The same person who pickets a family planning clinic because abortions take place there--the person who is so concerned about those fertilized eggs--probably ate some eggs for breakfast. Those eggs probably came from chickens that were hideously tortured in ways too horrific to even describe here. That person may be wearing lipstick tested on animals and a coat made from animals. She will most likely eat an animal later in the day. It's not just that these animals have died because someone likes fried chicken--they have lived and died under the most hideous conditions.


The so-called sanctity of life is rather limited.