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Social workers in Scotland recently rescued a pet monkey from the filthy, drug-infested apartment of a couple of heroin addicts. Contacting an animal-welfare group, the social workers took great pains to make sure the animal was removed from the squalid cesspool of a home.
But the social workers neglected to do anything about the little girl living with the couple.
The 5-year-old's fingernails had not been cut for more than a year, she was covered in bed sores, lying in human waste and wearing a plaster cast on her broken leg that should have been removed 10 months earlier. When doctors eventually removed the cast from the girl, whose leg has been permanently scarred, they found spoons, a fork, and a pen she had used to try to scratch her ulcers.
A judge rebuked the social workers, noting incredulously that they had visited the couple's house 18 times and had gone inside four times, but had failed to take note of or do anything about the poor girl's plight.
Hang on to that picture for a minute.
PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is the largest animal-rights organization on the planet, boasting 750,000 members.
The group has an impressive record of getting business, industry and government to be kinder to animals. With the central theme of preventing cruelty to animals, the group has waged a long and successful campaign against research, scientific and product testing involving animals.
To demonstrate its corporate citizenship in promoting alternative methods of testing, PETA has made grants totaling $300,000 to two research firms "to assist in the validation of non-animal test methods to replace existing animal tests." What sort of non-animal testing? How about human embryos?
As reported in WorldNetDaily, although one of the two firms funded by PETA has denied using human embryos for their testing, the other has not. Human babies, you see, are not as important as rats.
Now the National Institutes of Health has drafted new guidelines for "human embryonic stem cell research" that will make it easier than ever for human embryos to be used as mere "tissue" for research.
The general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Rev. Msgr. Dennis N. Schnurr, in his letter to the NIH, charges that "the policy of the new NIH guidelines is that human embryos outside the womb may be exploited and killed as nothing more than 'tissue.' In short," he says, "live human embryos are dismissed as mere 'tissue' to be destroyed for useful cells."
"Under this policy," concludes Schnurr, "far from being treated as a human subject, the human embryo effectively ranks lower in status than a laboratory animal."
Humans lower than animals? Is there a pattern developing here?
I always thought PETA just wanted to put a stop to homeless dogs' being burned alive and similar horror stories, as their home page indicates. But moving beyond the shiny exterior with its heart-wrenching animal-abuse stories designed to appeal to large numbers of people and attract donations, I find this:
"For kids who want to eat their veggies and not their friends," PETA draws children into campaigns to "Save the Chickens," and to "Save the Pigs."
What about "Save the Babies"? I couldn't find that campaign. Can someone send me the link?..................
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