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I honestly sometimes wonder if some of these hardcore animal rights types are being paid by the beef, cosmetics and puppy mill industries to make it easier to dismiss those concerned about humane treatment for animals as misanthropic wackos. It's hard to imagine how a person could do more damage to the cause than by comparing owning pets to slavery or, as PETA has done, equating raising animals for food with the Holocaust, petitioning suicide bombers to avoid huritng animals when blowing up buses full of people, protesting doctors who are working on finding a cure for AIDS and asking Timothy McVeigh to eat a vegetarian last meal. If these people truly care about lessening the amount of cruelty to animals in the world, or have brains, they should stop this crap, even if they really do believe it, now.
