If you are going to argue against anti-cruelty campaigns, at least have a clue what you're talking about

Just in case you are one of the totally ignorant people who continues to distribute ridiculous falsehoods all over the Web, for the one thousandth time...

PETA did not smash up any lab buildings. PETA has never destroyed any property. PETA is subversive, not lawless.

Yes, there is something wrong with Beyonce, the Williams sisters, or anyone wearing fur. We may not agree that it is wrong to kill an innocent creature because you want to look chic in a Miami club (and yes, I think there is something frightening about your not agreeing), but how can we not agree that it is wrong to torture that creature before it dies? Leghold traps, lifelong confinement in a tiny space, and anal electrocution are examples of extreme cruelty.

Yes, animals kill and eat each other in "nature." They also urinate and defecate wherever they happen to be, have sex with whoever is in heat wherever they happen to be, and physically attack whoever frightens them. So...are we "civilized" about some things and not about others? That's convenient. And anyway, other animals do not torture their prey before killing and eating it.

Telling animal rights group to "work for legislation" instead of participating in activist activites is, frankly, a ridiculous suggestion. They do work for legislation, of course. But waiting for legislative bodies to stop oppression has never worked because those bodies are made up of the oppressors, and of people who are afraid to act. There would be no black civil rights movement if there had been no sit-ins, marches and riots. There would be no gay rights movement without Stonewall. There would be no women's rights movement (such as it is) if the suffragists had not chained themselves to public buildings.

Humans are not superior to "animals." Humans are animals. If having a lesser-functioning brain means that you can be trapped, confined, tossed live into boiling water, dragged behind a truck, force-fed, and anally electrocuted, then I should be wearing Sean Hannity-skin shoes and carrying a Michelle Malkin-skin handbag.