ANIMAL RIGHTS? GIVE THEM THE VOTE.

Animal rights people are cuddly, cute and not too bright. Pretty much like the creatures they insist they speak for. One wonders why no actual animals ever join their various organizations. Maybe they're too busy grazing and eating one another to waste their time hanging around big cities where none of them reside carrying signs and spraying red paint on pretty ladies' fur coats. Or maybe they just don't trust a species that worries about mink when 36,000 of their own kind die every single day from starvation. Would you?

Let's ask the animals what they have to say. Oh, wait, that's right, they can't talk. But if they could, you have to wonder what they'd say about vegetarians and anti-fur activists. Would they be grateful? Hardly seems likely. Puzzled would be more like it since no other species of animal gives a rat's ass about any other species. It's not like they do a lot of socializing or intermarrying. Grazers compete for grass, predators compete for grazers and none of them form any kind of club to protect other species. And yet, 36,000 caribou don't starve to death every single day. Somehow they muddle through without rallies against the wolves.

It's only a certain breed of human with either nothing better to do or who have given up on their own species that rail against nature. The giving up on humanity would explain many of these people's insistence that nobody should eat meat because they say so. This same protein-laden meat helped evolve these big old brains of ours so that we have all sorts of things to ponder other than eating and procreating, burdens with which animals are unfamiliar. There's a reason that lions are a lot smarter than zebras. They eat meat. And there's a reason why normal people are a lot smarter than those who figure they have a better system than the one that got us here and decide they are something other than human.

Humans are by nature omnivores, and part of that omni is meat. And wearing the furs of the animals we kill and eat is as old as humanity, as is using their byproducts in our everyday lives. And as always in any species, there are some who thrive and some who starve. But being human, we worry about the starving among us, and rightly so. We are our brothers' keepers, and too many of our brothers and sisters are kept in poverty and ignorance and hunger. No sense being cruel to animals or trying to wipe them out, but just maybe we should hold some more rallies to help our own endangered brethren. Buffalo care for and protect other buffalo and they don't even know why, they just do it. We know why, but we don't. Go figure.