You know, I'm all for animal rights. True, I haven't gone so far as to give up eating them but I've stopped eating the products of certain companies that treat them inordinately poorly and I've stopped buying things made out of them. I also feed (and neuter and take to the vet) stray cats and, going back a few years, I stopped a TV producer from booking a couple of animal acts that I thought were cruel to their performers. And a few years before that, I had a neighbor who was beating his dog. I called the police on him and it ended up with the dog going to another home. (The dog-beater was a prominent author and I used to hear him on talk shows lecturing people on how they should treat one another. I was always tempted to phone in and ask him about that poor Great Dane of his…)
Anyway, my point is that the lot of animals would be much better if everyone in the world was as considerate of them as I am. And I wish that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals would stop making ethical treatment of animals into a joke with stupid crap like this.