Wesley J. Smith's book, A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy, is gaining traction. Here is an excellent interview of our senior fellow in bioethics at Frontpagemag.com. As with so many issues, the opposition to Smith's views create a straw man about it, holding that Smith is insensitive to animal welfare--the humane treatment of animals from pets to ranch cattle. The opposite is true, as Smith makes clear.
Radical animal rights is part of the utopian leftism that depreciates human exceptionalism--those qualities that make us distinctly human.
