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One of our "divine rights" is "dominion over the animals." Given to us by God as one of our duties. We are responsible for the animals of the field, the water and the air. How they are treated reflects directly on us...the human race.

Animal rights ACTIVISTS have gone too far, not so for animal rights. Shouldn't even be a debate. We are supposed to utilize the resources given to us, including animals. However, we are supposed to do so humanely, with an eye towards the future, meaning conservation, replenishing populations, protecting, caring for and yes...loving them.

However, activists for animal rights have taken this to the extreme. Why? Well, comes down to the economics. ALWAYS comes down to the money. Keeping animals for profit means cutting expenses to maximize profits. That means diminished welfare for the animals, cruel conditions, inhumane treatment, sadistic slaughter and all the rest that activists are right about.

But, it doesn't mean I have to wear cloth shoes, eat only vegetables, cinch up my pants with rope or scream incoherently at someone wearing leather pants or...God forbid...a FUR coat!

There will always be abuses of animals. What we really need are laws with teeth to punish those who do take advantage of the "dominion" I mentioned. Of course, more humane treatment means higher prices for everything. More for a dozen eggs, more for the boneless chicken breast, more for the T-bone steak, and so on. Until and unless we are willing to pay more, and for as long as we scream for LOWER prices, the abuses will continue.

Then, there's the REAL abuse. House full of a hundred dead and dying cats. Dogs forever ruined because all they've known is fighting for their very survival. The abandoned, unwanted, uncared for and excess animals will always be with us. But what is the penalty for abusing an animal? A fine? Probation? For the worst offenders, a few months in jail?

That is not a true deterrant, and until there is a TRUE deterrant, such as YEARS in prison, seizure of property and resources, and enough social stigma to shame those who do shameful things to animals, it's not going to change.

Activists, as is usually the case with those who ABSOLUTELY feel they're right, are a reactionary bunch, capable of violence, while decrying violence done. They become more of a problem than their activism because they want everyone to believe, to accept, to conform, to do it THEIR way. Never gonna happen, so there'll always be activists, causes to be active about and those on the other side, perhaps laughing at their naivette, with the activists believing they can actually change people and their opinions.

Animal rights is one of the great "lost causes" of today's world, believing that people's minds can be changed.

Just ain't gonna happen. Not in our lifetimes, anyway.

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