PETA's Efforts to 'Save' Animals Endangering Humans in Many Ways

While I sympathize with the plight of animals being mass produced for the food industry, I realize the importance of food to society and understand the food chain. According to some animal rights activists, people with a similar outlook and desire to be fed to satisfaction like mine may be insensitive.

Oh my! Insensitive. But what happens when the defense of animals by these so called “Animal Justice Warriors” leads to the potential subjugation and torture of humans?

Over the past couple of years, the issue of the transporting of animals for medical research purposes has heated up as PETA and other extremist groups have bombarded the inboxes and telephone lines of several major airlines, asking that they discontinue the practice.

Animal testing, which is dependent on the actual delivery of the animals into the possession of researchers has been critical to almost every major medical advancement over the past century. The fact remains that, whether PETA and their cronies like it or not, animal testing and experimentation is a key part of the research and development of every approved drug on the market.

Another fact that has escaped these activists is, if airlines actually caved to this pressure, the animals would be subjected to longer and less humane methods of travel.

The animal rights crowd also fails to consider several other factors that are sure to materialize as part of the overall ripple effects that these shortsighted attacks against medical research have.

Costs

Transporting animals by air is fast, efficient, and cost-effective. The animals are more comfortable than they would be traveling by car or train and the speed of travel by air limits travel time significantly. As Americans continue to struggle to pay for their prescription medication, adding additional costs at the research and development stage does nothing to provide relief to consumers.

Americans Are Dying

Sick people are waiting for advances in medicine. Everyday people are dying from diseases like Colon and Pancreatic Cancer, Aids, Diabetes, Alzheimer’s and many others. The obstacles that they are attempting to create for the animal testing industry will only create a longer delay for researchers working desperately to save lives.

International Competition

China has been robbing America blind over the past couple of decades. In addition to intellectual property theft, trade imbalance, and the absorption of the American manufacturing industry, Americans now face the prospect of facing competitive disadvantages against China in the research and development industry. China is a country that the so-called “Humanists” at PETA should be concerned with potentially empowering, as they work to weaken research efforts in the U.S.

If China continues to move toward also stealing our research industry, they will be doing so in a position of power as there is a serious lack of humane restrictions — none on transport and none on safety — and that will have an effect on all of the animals and people (mostly dissidents and prisoners), who will be subjected to brutal and unregulated testing methods.

China is already notorious for its practice of systematic, forced organ removal from prisoners of conscience, consisting mainly of Falun Gong practitioners and Muslims. The next step in the evolution of China’s unconscionable disregard for human rights could be an expansion of violations against these prisoners as they attempt to fill the gap in the Research and Development market created by problems caused by groups like PETA, who may have the best of intentions, but who unfortunately own a deeply rooted ignorance of the processes involved with the creation of life saving medicines.

As long as the pharmaceutical industry remains a multi-billion-dollar business, many countries will put greed above conscience when it comes to determining the standards of industry practice. For America, which people around the world depend on to lead in innovation and where regulations are more than sufficient and humane, the obstructive calls for additional unnecessary restrictions from fringy activists should be ignored in the interest of saving the lives of the sick, and hopefully minimizing human suffering halfway around the world.

Julio Rivera is a small business consultant, political activist, writer and Editorial Director for Reactionary Times. He has been a regular contributor to Newsmax TV and columnist for Newsmax.com since 2016. His writing, which is concentrated on politics, cybersecurity and sports, has also been published by websites including The Hill, The Washington Times, LifeZette, The Washington Examiner, American Thinker, The Toronto Sun and PJ Media and many others. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.