Different folks allied on same strokes for animals
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It’s intriguing that JC Wilcox
While Mr Wilcox is a conservative, people generally think of animal rights as a liberal cause. Yet there are right-wingers and left-wingers on both sides of this issue, and as one animal-rights writer once noted, communist governments have never been champions of animal rights.
So, rather than seeing animal rights as a right-wing or left-wing cause, we should see it as a movement that welcomes anyone who has enough humanity to stand up for the animals and enough courage not to care if doing so makes people angry.
Eric Bahrt
