Animal Rights Groups Discussion

[Lizardlicks]

I am 100% for animal welfare as I believe the critters under our care, custody, and control should be kept in the healthiest and most humane manner possible. I also am for sensible wildlife management practices to prevent the spread of diseases like CWD in deer.

I have little or no use for animal "rights" organizations, especially the ones who raise funds to line the pockets of Washington lobbyists instead of promoting animal rescue.

Pretty much this. Animals deserve respect and care, especially when they're under human management. A person that takes on the responsibility of care for an animal and then fails to provide, or deliberately mistreats it should be held accountable by other humans as dictated by law and enforced by the court as the animal(s) can not do so themselves. Animals are not people. They don't think and reason like people, and treating them as people is often just as detrimental to their health and wellbeing as neglecting them entirely (examples: "vegan" cats, "dominance" training dogs, releasing any domestic animal into the wild to "be free").

If you try to tell me honey bees have the same level of sentience as a person, and that beekeepers are really slave masters stealing the hard earned honey of the oppressed worker bees, I'm going to ask you who your dealer is and how much you paid him for whatever you're smoking.