Saturday, April 16, 2005

Feral cats

So, my friend, Adam Bauknecht, out of Wisconsin, is a rather adamant animal rights/welfare sort of fella. I take pride in partially having introduced him to the loveliness of animals when he took care of my Jackson for a three month stint when I was out of the country, back in 96. Since then he has acquired quite a few cats, has worked at the humane society and has now been accepted to vet school.

Anyway, when Wisconsin decided to allow the hunting of feral cats, he decided to make a stink about it and not let the gun-happy killing rednecks get away with it. Hop on to the site and see how ridiculous people are and how it is possible to raise a ruckus. And if you think it is all about feral cats killing songbirds...think again, most people let their cats outside...do you want this to happen to them?

For all those of my friends that think they cannot affect change, being only one small person, check out the far-reaching news coverage that he has been able to accomplish, at of all places, the BBC....

Way to frickin go.
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3 comments:

Scriptsaurus said...

I'm glad that someone is focusing on a fairly legitimate animal welfare issue instead of targeting scientists. I don't really believe in animal 'rights' per se, but we should try to be as humane as possible at all times.

It's one thing to kill your own cat, that's your business in my opinion- but killing someone else's cat is down-right rude. I think that we should instead declare open season on readnecks, and go paintballin'.

Sat Apr 16, 03:45:00 PM PDT
jkf said...

Not entirely sure scientists shouldn't be targeted, at least not the whole lot of them, though I wouldn't condemn the lot either. I think it is more about being a bit intelligent in what you wish to accomplish in the exploitation of animals (human or otherwise).

Now the paintballin of rednecks is a perfectly legitimate exploitation of a sub-human species...maybe we can incorporate it with Thug's attacks on peeing cappers. Name the time and place, as it might be better than POW for blowing off finals steam.

Sat Apr 16, 04:06:00 PM PDT
Scriptsaurus said...

We can practice on our home-grown Oregonian redneck stock.
Warning: incoming rant.

The thing is, scientists already have an effective internal review and oversight that assures that any animal research is heading toward a legitimate and important scientific/medical goal. If a proposal doesn't meet the standard, it doesn't get funded, and it doesn't happen. Animal rights people who have absolutely no concept of a legitimate scientific goal have no place judging such things. It's no better than the Bush-admin pushing to have sex research curbed because it's 'morally unsound'. Most people don't realize how crazy the leadership of the animal rights movement really are: these people say things like: 'even if animal research led directly to a cure for aids, we would be against it' (PETA). So, people join PETA and wear an AIDS ribbon at the same time which is just hypocritical. People who take it upon themselves to assume stewardship for animals without even knowing what they're talking about or having any idea what to do differently are no better than the pro-life moralists fighting for the 'rights' of the unborn.

Plus, compared to the impact on animals reeked by the construction of cities, the clothing industry, the distruction of the rainforest, etc. the actual benefit-to-society/#animals exploited ratio of science is astronomical, yet the animal rights movement targets science like it's the worst thing in the world. Left-wing moralism be damned.

Sat Apr 16, 06:14:00 PM PDT

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