Among “animal rights” (for the uninitiated: animals no only do not have rights, animals by definition cannot have rights) these days is, apparently, the right to privacy. Words fail me…
Read MoreBy definition, in fact, animals cannot have rights. Protections? Certainly. Rights? Impossible. This doesn’t stop the Nicholas Kristofs of the world from blathering on about such “rights”, and lauding the election of Comrade Obama as being another step forward in the accumulation of such “rights” for critters. One clue the article is suspect is that…
Read MoreThe Silence of the Yams To think, it wasn’t that long ago that I joked, when hearing about the silliness of “animal rights”, that one day some nutjob would argue for “plants rights”. Now, many people think animals actually have “rights” (they do not, and indeed cannot), and the day may be coming when people…
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