The Wisdom of David Martosko
David Martosko is with the food industry-financed Center for Consumer Freedom, aka PETA's Worst Nightmare. David's genius is that he is as edgy and committed to fighting animal rights as PETA is in advocating the ideology. (The Center created the "PETA Kills Animals" campaign, for example). In any event, he has a letter in today's Christian Science Monitor responding to an article I didn't read. But his points are cogent and make points with which I completely agree: In response to Barbara Cook Spencer's recent Opinion piece on animal cruelty: The author exposes an interesting conundrum in her exploration of how modern society treats animals. While gratuitous cruelty toward animals clearly lowers humanity's value, the same can be said of the gratuitous elevation of animals' worth. The same animal advocates who rush to judgment about the reckless behavior of a few slaughterhouse employees apparently see nothing wrong with extending legal "rights" to lab rats--regardless of the cost to cancer and AIDS patients. David Martosko Washington
Doesn't the establishment of legal rights for these animals also debase humanity? At the end of the day, it is probably impossible to guarantee both "rights" for animals and disease cures for humans.
I see siding with my own species as the only compassionate option.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 11:07 AM
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Please note that the Center for Consumer Freedom is an industry front group, an astroturf outfit.
I said CforCF is industry financed. On many issues, that is irrelevant because it is also right.
This recently came to mind after seeing an episode of "Modern Marvels" on the history channel and I figured I may as well bring it up here, but what are your thoughts on cryogenics (by that I mean the actual freezing of bodies in an attempt to bring them back to life decades later)?
Hifredomfighterxl: I don't like to mix subjects, so I don't want anyone else commenting on cyrogenics. But I think it is just another way of burying bodies. In other words, I don't think it will work and I think people are wasting their money.
Oh, dear God. You've got to be kidding me. If you had any credibility before, the title of this blog throws it out the window. Martosko is a greedy, lying SOB. He doesn't care about people. If he did, he wouldn't fill the media with his lies about food, health, alcohol, safety, animals. He gets paid to go after the groups who hurt his funders. Peta hurts the meat and dairy industries by advocating a vegan diet. The CCF was funded by Philip Morris, so Richard Berman (it's CEO) obviously doesn't care about fighting cancer. Check out SourceWatch if you want the truth about Martosko, Berman and the CCF.
Animallover22: So typical of the animal rights mindset. Call names. Accuse people of cruelty. Cast aspersions on integrity and character.
But ad homimem insults do not disprove the assertions of this letter. That is what is posted. Deal with that.
By the way, I know David and he is nothing like you describe him.
Yep. Shooting the messenger in order to discredit the message.
The animal rights people need to be brought out in the open as the extremists they are.
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