Animal Rights Would Ban Pets

by Wesley J. Smith

The ultimate goal of animal rights is not to improve our treatment of animals, but to end all animal domestication. Continue Reading »

30 Sep 2016

Seeking Person Status for Chimpanzee

by Wesley J. Smith

Matthew Hiasl Pan is the name given to him. Nice name except for one major detail. Pan is a 26 year old Chimpanzee. And in the radical animal rights activists mind Pan should be seen as, treated as and protected in law as a person.Thankfully the high court in Austria decided that only people get . . . . Continue Reading »

28 May 2008

Ideology Distorts Reason: Animal Rights Advocates Oppose Necessary S. African Elephant Cull

by Wesley J. Smith

The South African government has relegalized the culling of elephant herds. Predictably, animal rights activists are calling for a boycott. From the story: Beginning in May, the government will lift a 13-year ban on elephant culls, which are usually carried out by shooting entire herds, including . . . . Continue Reading »

26 Feb 2008

Animal Rights, Human Rights

by Thomas Sieger Derr

The power of the movement for animal rights—a movement that until recently was located for most people on the edge of the ridiculous—can no longer be denied. Abetted by both the “rights revolution” and the increasingly powerful environmental cause, the old collection of vegetarians . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 1992