animal rights issues

This question is already addressed to some extent in a Travis thread. It had not been obvious to me that buying purebred dogs might be morally wrong. But that's what some animal rights activists are basically saying. By creating a market for dogs that have been inbred in order to express certain...

I thought we needed another thread following up on the incest thread and the necrophilia thread (YMMV), in which we can chew the fat, as it were, about the subject of zoophilia. Should it be banned everywhere? Or, alternatively, is cross-species love an unfairly maligned activity that could...

First, my own background. I'm a cat lover. I work at an animal rescue. I've been taking care of cats for 20 years now and I can't imagine my life without them. I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to them, and if anyone were to ever hurt them, I would want that individual to be harshly...

This thread is started as a result of discussions here and here, in which Desi made comments regarding animal rights. Here are the relevant posts: and While I sympathize with such arguments, I disagree with them...they seek to depict an equivalency that, in my opinion, just doesn't exist...