Moral of the story, you can’t raise 100’s of millions of tax free dollars on the reality of healthy animals who enjoy “professional and extremely humane conditions.” It’s a hustle, intellectual bullying at its worse, the exploitation of our compassion and empathy. These groups have masterfully crafted campaigns that thoroughly and grotesquely fleece a public that is mostly naive about animals, convincing seemly intelligent people that much like the cartoons of their youth that nature intended all animals to enjoy the utopia that is the wild where they can know the liberty of breaking into well choreographed songs written by Alan Menken and Tim Rice. These campaigns have grown more insidious by the day courtesy of the worldwide web ushering one and all into the shallow world of sound bite intellectualism, making “experts” of rabid YouTube subscribers. Most egregiously these cults have found an audience with elected officials. Men and women who with a mere vote and stroke of a pen can shatter an entire industry and dramatically alter the existence of 100’s even 1000’s of people and animals alike, all at the behest of those who hold to the conviction that working animals are the new Black.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:32:13 +0000