Animal Rights Extremism (page115)

We offer this as further proof that animal rights groups are out of hand: English activists set fire to six cars outside the homes of staff working at an animal testing company. A police spokesman said, "It is sheer luck that we're not beginning a murder investigation." With the growth in animal rights terrorism, how long before restaurants are targeted? ("Animal lab staff cars set ablaze," The Express, 8/29/00)

On Labor Day, everyone loves to throw some burgers and dogs on the grill to celebrate the last glorious day of summer. Everyone that is, except the anti-meat spoilsports from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine who believe "meat is a risky food, whether or not it has been cooked thoroughly."

The lead article in the New York Times’ Dining Out section pulls the rug out from under The Chef Collaborative’s (CC) rhetoric about the importance of locally grown produce from…

The organic pushers from the Environmental Working Group won't let up in their demands for ABC reporter John Stossel's head. They want Stossel fired for making a misstatement about produce tests he thought were conducted but actually weren't. Tests or no tests, Steven Milloy (publisher of Junkscience.com, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a columnist for FoxNews.com) points out that Stossel was correct in saying organic produce is not safer than conventional.

Since 1997, the Organic Consumers Association demanded official USDA organic certification standards by flooding the agency with hundreds of thousands of form letters. They now claim the USDA organic standards they fought for could result in the “industrialization” of small organic farming “especially ironic since the organic movement emerged largely as a reaction to industrialization,” they write. Who once said “Be careful what you wish for”?

Columnist Richard Roeper blasts the idea of giving animals legal rights as Boulder, CO recently did. Roeper says plain and simple, "if you have a pet, you own that pet." Boulder's adoption of this "legal rights" idea gives more credence to our argument that the estate of your favorite cut of beef may someday see you in court, if your former "pet" dog doesn't sue you first.

Police say animal rights protestors in Minneapolis left cyanide at a McDonald's restaurant yesterday. It seems that killing people is no longer a problem for these terrorists in pursuit of their anti-choice agenda.

Fans of char-grilled steaks and hot dogs are under fire, as a writer for CBS HealthWatch ignites fear in the world's oldest form of cooking over a direct flame. In a thinly veiled pitch to switch to vegetarian, the author suggests limiting your grilled choices to fruits, vegetables and soy burgers.

The Madison Capital Times is supporting Wisconsin nannies who are lobbying the state government to subsidize organic, local, small-scale agricultural production and require producers to add yet another onerous label to food to show its point of origin. The Wisconsin movement is just another sign of the nationwide anti-choice campaign designed to return agricultural production and distribution methods to the stone ages while destroying agribusiness companies.

The eco-terrorists from the Animal Liberation Front reportedly destroyed a truck and caused an estimated $100,000 in damage at a chicken farm in North Vernon, Indiana. A spokesman for ALF said, "What these farmers do to chickens is terrorism - what we do is not." ("Animal-rights group suspected in fire at chicken farm," Associated Press, 7/3/00.)