Confessions of a Conservative Vegetarian

It’s a veggie two-fer today! From the American Spectator:

Bashing the animal-rights movement has become a genre of conservative article. The latest I saw is one by Daniel Flynn, and he makes clear that there’s a lot to “bash.” Animal-rights fanatics in Britain have been threatening not only biomedical researchers, but their children. Flynn traces their lunacy to the crackpot ideas of Peter Singer, who (while favoring infanticide) morally equates animals and humans and has even opposed taboos against sex with animals.But decrying the excesses of activists is one thing; it still doesn’t tell us if their cause is just.

One night in Kansas in 1856 the abolitionist John Brown and his sons dragged some proslavery men out of their homes and hacked them to death with long-edged swords. Surely an excess, but it hardly means the abolitionist cause was wrong.

More here.