"Of Pigs and People," is an insightful commentary from Chuck Colson about new laws which purport to be about animal rights but which, in fact, are designed to blur the distinctions between animals and human beings. Here's a teaser......Again, Christians ought to oppose cruelty toward animals and ensure that animals, including those we eat, are treated humanely.
But initiatives like this one and in Florida are not really about the humane treatment of animals—they are about blurring and eventually erasing the distinction between people and animals. They are about eradicating what animal-rights advocates call “speciesism.”
Princeton ethicist Peter Singer defines “speciesism” as “a prejudice” that favors “the interests of members of one’s own species . . . against those members of other species.” Singer regards “speciesism” as being the moral equivalent of racism.
For Singer and company, the offense is not only that we treat animals badly—it is that we think that people are human and, thus, different than animals...
