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Just to illustrate how seriously some animal rights activists take their admonition to give equal consideration to animal interests, an activist posted a note to an animal rights email list a few weeks ago angry at C-SPAN’s excellent morning show.
Was the activist angry at some positive coverage of the animal industry, or perhaps its highlighting of an advance in medical research? Nope, according to the activist, "The C-SPAN morning show has come under criticism for requiring a daily newspaper headline, requiring participants to be involved in the hundreds of millions of trees, birds, squirrels, etc. killed annually for newsprint." Wow. Now if we could just get the activists to understand that millions of birds, squirrels, etc., are also killed producing the vegetables they consider to be cruelty-free we’d be getting somewhere.