In general, Human beings are not better or more deserving than "animals".
We are in fact animals ourselves,and in my opinion many of our species are pretty far down the food chain.

This thread has started of with a typical Mudcat knee jerk reaction, hense the "lynch mob " remark.

Animal rights ,including intensive farming and other abuses will have a very important role in any political change in the UK or US.

So dont write it off as "the lunatic fringe"

Time will indeed be the revelator...Ake