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Did You Know You’re A Redneck?
08/17/2010 01:31PM 
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“These people are rednecks,” Bryan Monell, an animal rights activist who 
specializes in undercover efforts, told a group of fellow activists in 
describing folks who work with animals. “We are superior,” he added. 

Ponder on that a bit—they are superior, not just to you, but to the “clueless 
consumer” as well. They are superior beings-- they just know better than all 
the rest of us. That’s the lifeblood that runs through animal activists’ veins. 

In the early-1990s I attended two separate national animal rights’ conferences 
in Washington, D.C. It was quite an experience, especially since I applied 
Monell’s tactic, I went undercover. I told people that I was newly engaged in 
the movement and still finding my way.

Talk about feeling like a fish out of water. As you can imagine it was 
uncomfortable, but mostly it was extremely frustrating because not only 
couldn’t I speak up to correct the blatant falsehoods, I had to respond as if I 
agreed with the rhetoric and ideas. The multiple-day event was part education 
(for me and the activists), part motivation and part circus. The actual number 
attending clouds my memory, but it was in the neighborhood of 600 to 800 
people. 

I heard some amazing things, some crazy things and some flat out scary 
things—things that would be hard to convince others that I was not simply 
making up. 

Just a few weeks ago two such conferences were held in the nation’s capital—the 
Animal Rights 2010 Conference and the Humane Society of the United States’ 
Taking Action for Animals. In total, something like 1,000 activists 
participated. 

In some ways, more than 15 years later, the movement is the same, mostly in 
terms of rhetoric. They align animal rights with the women’s movement, civil 
rights or the holocaust. 

Common quotes still surface, such as: “Owning animals is the equivalent of 
slavery,” says Hope Bohnec, In Defense of Animals; “I have no problem with 
breaking and entering, destroying labs, burning buildings and busting open 
cages,” says Camille Hankins, Animal Liberation spokesperson. 

One that’s particularly disturbing because it comes from a university professor 
is “We should distinguish a message from less meat, because we want no meat,” 
says Carrie Packwood, University of Georgia. 

But the movement’s tactics, at least those exposed to the public are quite 
different. All in all, the animal rights movement is more polished and focused 
today. Even back in the 1990s it was no longer a new movement and the public 
generally shrugged it off. The activists were increasingly organized, but they 
were grasping at topics. Their efforts were radical, they focused on laboratory 
animal testing, not eating meat and throwing paint on people who wore fur. 
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals was in the driver’s seat. 

Today, HSUS is the kingpin, as its more mainstream messages and tactics are 
more palatable to the public, which has helped get results such asProposition 2 
in California. 

You don’t hear much from PETA these days, but HSUS is a wolf in sheep’s 
clothing as PETA connections have built its foundation. 

The movement ranks animal agriculture among its top focus. There’s less 
reliance on shock value and more on businesses (owning stocks to influence 
company decisions), legislation, regulation, public policy and public 
perception. 

“Any state with an (ballot) initiative process is in our radar,” said Jennifer 
Hillman, HSUS. 

But make no mistake, two threads remain intact between then and now—HSUS and 
animal rights remains a threat to animal agriculture and the end goal is 
veganism (not just vegetarianism). The goal is certainly not pasture-raised, 
“natural”, “organic” meat. It’s not about the size of the pen or the animal’s 
feeding, handling and care. The public needs to understand this, but so does 
agriculture. Anyone with even one animal on their land needs to recognize that 
that animal agriculture is one issue in the activist’s heart and mind. 

“I dream of a vegan world; that’s where I want everything to go,” said Gene 
Baur, Farm Sanctuary. 

And remember, they are superior to the rest of us. 

By Marlys Miller, editor Pork magazine 
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Jennifer Trout, MD, August 17, 2010 08:18  
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That's "Dr Redneck" to you, Bryan!

Dr Jennifer Trout, DVM
Furn Dale Holsteins
Fallston, MD
littleblackdogs, Pennsylvania, August 17, 2010 05:36  
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Jeeze Marie, does anyone think for themselves anymore?

This is how it goes, right?
First dogs and cats, then cows and chickens and birds and fish..the frightening 
slippery slope away from torment and back to good ole' fashioned animal 
husbandry, the kind my proud Christian 'redneck' Arkansas grandparents 
practiced every single day of their farming lives.. .

God forbid...

It's a fear worse than Fidel...

So now we have foisted upon us the goose-stepping D.C. lobbyist and P.R. 
henchmen spreading fearful and inconceivably ridiculous rumors that ANY support 
of the goals of the Humane Society or any other 'animal rights activist' leads 
directly to Government Enforced National Vegetarianism!

Purina and Monsanto and Tyson's and McDonalds and Con-Agra and all the other 
BILLION dollar multinational giants of the food industry plus OUR WAY OF LIFE 
and OUR FREEDOMS to be driven out of town by The Mighty Wayne Pacelle!!!

The sheer stupidity of all this astounds me and I am too old to be astounded.

Was everyone asleep during Economy class?

The word isn't 'redneck'...where I come from that's a compliment..
It's 'ignorant'..

Nowhere is that a compliment.
steven matthews, md, August 17, 2010 04:28  
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"From my cold dead hands" will they take my animals.

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