Category Archives: Animal Rights

James Cromwell Glues Himself to Starbucks Counter

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Moonbat ideology is associated with young people. Normal development causes them to outgrow it. Tragically, some never do. The results can be less than dignified. Consider 82-year-old actor James Cromwell:

Cromwell glued his hand to the counter of a Starbucks in New York City on Tuesday in protest, saying the company charges more for plant-based milk alternatives.

Having imposed himself on the franchise along with other activists, he inflicted moonbattery on the customers.

He decried the practice of separating dairy cows from their calves and then taking the milk that would have gone to nourishing the newborns.

“Mother cows cry for their infants for days,” said Cromwell, who plays anti-capitalist Uncle Ewan Roy on the critically acclaimed “Succession.”

Cromwell doesn’t have the smarts to grasp that if we didn’t breed them for meat, milk, and leather, there wouldn’t be any cows. Brains are optional in Tinseltown.

Croaks Cromwell:

“These mothers must endure the loss a child over and over again. They suffer no less than human mothers would.”

This may be true if you compare cows to his fellow Hollyweirdos, who make a sacrament of killing their own offspring.

Cromwell is possibly best known for starring in Babe back in 1995. The kid-friendly comedy features farm animals with human attributes. Like many actors, he may fail to realize that real life is different from the movies.

No one was arrested for this disturbance of the peace:

What a shame that Starbucks’ woke corporate posture does not protect it from moonbat bullying.

On a tip from Steve T and Varla.

Massachusetts Virtually Bans Eggs

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There is nothing moonbats won’t take away from you in the name of their twisted, antihuman ideology. Not even the basic staples of human existence — like eggs.

The Blaze reports:

In 2016, Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly passed an animal treatment measure that, in part, made it illegal to sell eggs born of hens with less than 1.5 square feet of floor space in their enclosure. Now that decision, scheduled to take effect in 2022, is coming home to roost — and it’s threatening to wipe out the supply of eggs in the state.

The legislation is expected to decrease the Bay State’s egg supply by about 90% when it takes effect on the first of the year. The situation could get worse still as egg producers are driven into bankruptcy or out of the state.

However, eggs will still be available to our moonbat rulers no matter how extravagant the price, because they know how to monetize power. That’s why they don’t mind the inflation their policies cause.

The new standards, which apply to all egg products, cover eggs imported from other states, as well.

Similar moonbattery will soon make bacon all but unattainable in California.

Once liberalism has achieved critical mass in a given region, no extreme of tyranny is too insane to find public support.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

Apes Canceled From Greeting Cards

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Until it encounters sufficient resistance, moonbattery never stops escalating to ever more insane extremes of self-parody. Banishing Indians from butter packaging lest someone find a pretext to be offended wasn’t nutty enough. Now they are canceling apes from greeting cards.

Washington Examiner reports:

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced on Monday that CVS would no longer sell greeting cards featuring “great apes” dressed up in an assortment of outfits.

Everyone expects PETA to be outrageously wacky. The problem is that when woke bullies push, corporate invertebrates move. Rite Aid has also knuckled under.

PETA’s argument is absurd, unsurprisingly:

PETA argued portraying great apes such as chimpanzees and gorillas in cute outfits or interacting with humans “hinder conservation efforts” and mislead people into thinking chimpanzees are thriving rather than facing extinction. These portrayals could convince others to buy great apes as pets through the black market, the organization argued.

The actual motive is the same as for left-wing activism in general. Bullies get a kick out of pushing people around.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

Not Even MLB Is Woke Enough to Suit PETA

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When I swore off baseball forever after seeing the players kneel to leftist rioters, it seemed MLB could not possibly become more woke. But progressives always progress to new depths of derangement. Not even pro baseball is politically correct enough to suit PETA. Now we learn that the term “bullpen” is offensive to cows and has “speciesist roots.”

This on the level:

In a statement issued Thursday by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the animal rights organization made it clear they find the term “bullpen” to be mocking towards the “misery of sensitive animals.”

PETA demands that the bullpen henceforth be referred to as the “arm barn.”

Wait until PETA learns what the outside of a baseball is made out of. If they could figure out a race angle, they could bully MLB into using Whiffle Balls.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Hippopotamuses Are People Too

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Flawed ideologies can be debunked by extending their precepts to their logical conclusions. This is called “reductio ad absurdum.” For example, liberalism is exposed as a joke by applying human rights to hippopotamuses:

The offspring of hippos once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar can be recognized as people or “interested persons” with legal rights in the U.S. following a federal court order.

The ruling does not apply in Colombia, where the invasive hippos are breeding wildly and causing havoc, so that authorities want to kill or sterilize them. But it could have legal consequences closer to home.

In the suit, attorneys for the Animal Legal Defense Fund asked the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati to give “interested persons” status to the hippos…

Federal magistrate Judge Karen Litkovitz in Cincinnati granted the request on Oct. 15. The animal rights group based near San Francisco said it believes it’s the first time animals have been declared legal persons in the U.S.

This is heading in an alarming direction for moonbat demigod Tony Fauci, who is said to bear responsibility for funding sadistic experiments on dogs and monkeys.

If applied consistently, left-wing ideology would cave in on itself, leaving nothing but a black hole of absurdity. So moonbats avoid consistency. Whereas hippopotamuses qualify as people, prenatal humans do not. Leftists are not consistent even in their absence of compassion regarding abortion. Municipal employees of hyperliberal Portland qualify for bereavement leave if they feel blue after killing their babies.

On tips from KirklesWorth and Mr. Freemarket.

Wanted: Loving Homes for Hundreds of Diseased Rats

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The principles of moonbattery can be applied to anything, even pest control. In the Phoenix suburb Peoria, a woman in her 60s with a severe hoarding issue lived alone with several dozen pet snakes. She raised rats to feed the snakes. Then she died. The rats got loose and set about breeding the way vermin will do, creating an infestation worthy of New York or Chicago.

Via Fox 10 Phoenix:

“Some rats got out and started their own population, mostly likely have consumed all the available food in the house and most likely the deceased, now they’re getting out because there’s no food left,” said Mike Boyle with Burns Pest Elimination.

The decedent’s legacy is not popular in the neighborhood.

“Hundreds if not thousands of rats up and down our street, in our backyards, in our garages,” said [neighbor Justin] Grubb. “It’s disgusting. It is. It’s absolutely disgusting.”

Worse still, moonbats have gotten involved. As you might expect, they side with the rats.

[The Arizona Humane Society], along with members of the “Any Rat Rescue” group, were out at the house, trying to round up and catch as many rats as possible, so that they can treat them and eventually adopt them out as pets.

The do-gooders have even put food out for the rats. Their view is that because the rats are descended from feeders purchased at the pet store, they will make fine pets, despite being feral.

“They are kind, sweet animals, like a cross between a cat and a dog,” said Jenna Lillibridge with Any Rat Rescue. “Least likely to bite, also least likely to spread disease.”

Speaking of disease…

“Right now, the ones I’ve seen have a lot of hair loss,” said [Tracy] Miller [of the Arizona Humane Society]. “It could be from hoarding and living conditions. Could be mange, could be ringworm, could be a variety of things.”

Won’t you please volunteer to give some of them a home?

The moonbat concept of equity dictates that everything must be forced into equivalence with everything else. But despite the heartfelt convictions of Jenna Lillibridge, rats will never be equal to cats or dogs.

Next, moonbats will start rescuing cockroaches. Laws will be passed to prevent us from stepping on them.

On a tip from Varla.

California Moonbats Come After Bacon

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If it is worth having, liberals will take it away from us. This includes even bacon. To see the future under moonbat rule, look to California:

At the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves. National veal and egg producers are optimistic they can meet the new standards, but only 4% of hog operations now comply with the new rules. Unless the courts intervene or the state temporarily allows non-compliant meat to be sold in the state, California will lose almost all of its pork supply, much of which comes from Iowa, and pork producers will face higher costs to regain a key market.

This could mean many restaurants that somehow survived the tyrannical Covid lockdowns will be put out of business by restrictions on what food is considered politically correct. Who wants to go to a diner for bacon and eggs when bacon has been forbidden?

Due to its massive population, California is often able to boss the rest of the country around. This time, other states will find it hard to comply:

With little time left to build new facilities, inseminate sows and process the offspring by January, it’s hard to see how the pork industry can adequately supply California, which consumes roughly 15% of all pork produced in the country.

In the end, the country may bow to California’s will:

Eventually, California’s new rules could become a national standard because processors can’t afford to ignore the market in such a large state.

Food prices in general are going up due to the inflation caused by Democrats’ irresponsible spending. If bacon goes up even faster, thank the erstwhile Golden State.

In Iowa, which raises about one-third of the nation’s hogs, farmer Dwight Mogler estimates the changes would cost him $3 million and allow room for 250 pigs in a space that now holds 300.

Some farmers will go out of business; others will be forced to charge more for the food they supply. All so that California moonbats can sanctimoniously lord it over the rest of us.

Too much regulation is never enough to suit progressives. If they can inflict this, they will inflict worse:

“The question to us is, if we do these changes, what is the next change going to be in the rules two years, three years, five years ahead?” Mogler asked.

Will we wait until Democrats ban bacon before we start pushing back? What will they ban next after that?

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

Oregon May Make Producing Meat Illegal

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If you want to see the future under Democrat rule, look to the Left Coast, where liberals are solidifying control. In Oregon, an impending ballot initiative may make providing for a normal human diet into a crime.

IP 13 will be on the ballot next fall. It eliminates exceptions to animal cruelty laws that are required for any number of activities that have been key aspects of human existence since before recorded history, including animal husbandry, hunting, and fishing. According to John M. Simpson of the law firm Duane Morris LLP, it would make any injury to an animal that results from the following activities a criminal offense:

• Treatment of livestock transported by owner or common carrier.

• Rodeos or similar exhibitions.

• Commercially grown poultry.

• Use of good animal husbandry practices.

• Slaughtering of livestock in compliance with state law.

• Fishing, hunting and trapping otherwise lawful under state law.

• Wildlife management practices under color of law.

• Lawful scientific or agricultural research or teaching that involves the use of animals.

• Reasonable measures to control of vermin or pests.

• Reasonable handling and training techniques.

The only exceptions allowed to animal cruelty laws would be for self-defense or veterinary practices.

Even producing leather may soon be illegal in Oregon, unless the hide comes from an animal that has died of natural causes.

After they have made meat illegal while shrieking about “animal cruelty,” and energy illegal while shrieking about “global warming” — and we are left to subsist on vegan diets while we freeze in the dark — leftists will come for the rest of our food. Already, farming is said to offend the weather gods believed in by liberals.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.