A writer at Alternet makes the case for vegetarianism to her progressive allies.

I’ve observed before that even on the Left animal rights still seems to strike many as fringy or unimportant.

Matthew Scully, a former speechwriter for President Bush, has made the case for better treatment of animals on broadly conservative grounds. In fact, reading an article by Scully back in 2002 was actually the catalyst that got me re-thinking the whole issue of animals.

There have even been libertarian defenses of animal rights, though, it has to be said, the vast majority of libertarians seem content to class animals as human property.