Animalrights.net

Animalrights.net is primarily a web log and news-posting site that has a goal of "debunking the animal rights movement," according to a description on the web traffic monitoring web site, Alexa.com. Animalrights.net was first registered on: 06-May-1998.

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Lobbying for lobbyists.
Like many third party industry lobbies, Animalrights.net quotes corporate lobbyists like Berman & Co. and National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA) as "sources" and “expert testimony” on the animal rights & advocacy movement. Berman & Co. reliably attacks critics of their corporate clients in the meat, dairy, restaurant, cosmetics and other industries. Colorful, inflammatory language is very popular with this Washington, DC based lobbying group. NAIA represents commercial animal interests of factory farming, vivisection, blood sports, entertainment and others, but particularly breeding as a virtual mouthpiece for the American Kennel Club breeder lobby. It is indeed a "forum for opposing views". Animalrights.net is highly censored with the predictable agenda of presenting views favorable to the food, drug, medical industrial complex, vivisection, pharmaceutical and other industries. Brian Carnell, owner and main contributor; relies heavily on hyperbole and stereotypes to make points or to obfuscate specific issues, opposition, contradictory evidence and/or views. 

Focusing on non-issues.
The predominant animal, health and environmental issues driving animal rights and welfare are factory farming and farm animal issues, fur ranching, trapping, hunting, animal research, product research and various sports and entertainment animal issues. Additional interest areas include companion animal issues such as euthanasia, puppy mills and various laws such as tethering, etc. Most institutionalized animal commerce contains large scale abuse, mutilation, inhumane housing and treatment that amounts to torture. Yet, none of these issues are ever addressed, let alone “debunked”.

Discrediting activists & promoting commercial views & agendas
In Mr. Carnells’ desperation to portray humane advocates in violent and/or ridiculous ways; virtually any ones' opinion; whether they be fast food lobbyists, meat executives or seal clubber advocates is viewed as incontrovertible evidence. Although the main message of Animalrights.net is that animal advocates are "extremists" and "terrorists"; virtually any action, protest, campaign or correspondence is characterized as suspicious, violent, extreme or simple contemptible. Mega-billion dollar, multi-national corporations are "victims" and their paid lobbyists "experts" or even moral authorities. Efforts are anywhere from outright deceptive to ridiculous. For example, in one essay an HSUS is criticized for an unsuccessful rescue of a wounded seal during a seal hunt. However, the subsequent clubbing and stabbing seals through the head with metal spikes and the hunt itself escapes the contempt and harsh critiques reserved for humane advocates. Such activities, like all abuses and exploitation; are treated as completely irrelevant on Animalrights.net.

Humane Society rep. criticized by pro-slaughter advocate for handling of wounded seal.
HSUS Activists Reportedly Not Happy at Being Caught on Film. "Pro-seal hunt filmmaker Raoul Jomphe claims that representatives with the Humane Society of the United States were displeased that the caught them on film ignoring the suffering of a seal that the animal rights activists were using as a prop for a fund raising video." However, according to follow-up article; "What he (Jomphe) doesn’t tell you is that it would have been illegal for us to do so,” she said Monday. “Under the marine mammal regulations, only people with sealing licenses can kill seals. But more importantly, we didn’t have the means or the equipment or the expertise to do that in a way that would not simply increase that animal’s suffering.” Aldworth said she initially decided not to rescue the seal, because she believed it wouldn’t survive a helicopter ride to a veterinary hospital. More than an hour later, she said she realized it could be treated.  “Just as we were making arrangements to fly this seal back, the sealers came back and clubbed a lot of live seals in the area, including this one, and stabbed it through the skull with a metal spike,” she said. “We go up there to protect these animals and to try and stop this hunt, because this is something that happens so frequently in the course of this slaughter … and to have somebody edit a sequence of events to suggest that we would ever prolong the suffering of an animal to get video footage is obscene. 'Seal-Hunt Dishonesty'

Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Society.
 Paul Watson Compares Seal Hunt to Holocaust Paul Watson was one of the co-founders of the Greenpeace Foundation. "I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals – and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species.  Isac Bashevis Singer, who fled Poland for the US shortly before the Nazi rampage; wrote the 7th chapter of  'Eternal Treblinka,' called 'This Endless Slaughterhouse." Singer never stopped seeing the ghosts of his fellow Jews in the plight of food and research animals... "In relation to them (mice)," thinks a Singer character whose family was exterminated by the Nazis, "all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." As the famous scientist and Jewish vegetarian, Albert Einstein said, "widen our circle of compassion". As the German Jewish philosopher Theodor Adorno put it: "Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals." Not only are many supporters of the animal rights movement Jewish, some are actually Holocaust survivors themselves, such as Alex Hershaft. 

Alex Hershaft writes thank you note to Burger King.
 Vegan Dreams vs. Burger King Reality. Mr. Carnell is enraged over a simple thank you email from Alex Hershaft, to Burger king for including a veggie burger on their new menu. Alex Hershaft is founder of FARM (Farm Animal Reform Movement) as well as a child survivor of the Warsaw ghetto.

Meat executive critical of "vegetarian propaganda".
Dan Murphy’s Excellent Commentary on AR2002. To read this ridiculous description of a 2002 Animal Rights conference; one would think attendees spent most of their time trading bomb recipes. "Unfortunately, the overwhelming attitude among speakers, disciples and exhibitors alike encompassed a migraine-inducing mix of virulent anti-meat propaganda... To invoke the name of Martin Luther King on behalf of violent ALF types who are past even the fringe of legitimacy is a venal, bankrupt attempt at credibility." "Deeply influenced by the works of Gandhi while studying at the Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, King made the struggle for civil liberty for African Americans in the USA his sole motto. His weapons: faith in God and nonviolence. From my background I gained my regulating Christian ideals", he later said, " From Gandhi, I learned my operational technique". Gandhi was a vegan and passionate about the advocacy and care of animals. "Of all the black crimes that Man commits against God and Creation, vivisection is the blackest." "I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Mohandas Ghandi

Mischaracterization of Volkert Van der Graaf political assassination (Netherlands 2002).
 Animal Rights Activist Loses Murder Appeal.  AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands -- The man accused of assassinating Dutch anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn has told judges he acted on behalf of the country's Muslims. Volkert Van der Graaf, 33, said during his first court appearance in Amsterdam on Thursday that Fortuyn was using "the weakest parts of society to score points" and gain political power. Fortuyn, an academic and columnist, was running for the post of prime minister on an anti-immigration platform."   "I don't know him as someone who would use violence," Roger Vleugels, who had helped van der Graaf with legal cases, said on Dutch television. Van der Graaf worked on more than 2,000 lawsuits fighting the expansion of industrial animal farming.  Environmental groups in the Netherlands condemned the killing, fearing they would be associated with the murder. Telephone threats from Fortuyn supporters were received by Greenpeace and other groups.  "Pim Fortuyn had reasonable views on the bio-industry," Pigs in Need, an animal rights group, said in a statement. "Fortuyn believed that new agricultural policy needed to be animal-friendly."  In a recent book, Fortuyn wrote: "Animal welfare must be a priority and we need to switch to less industrial production methods," according to the group. It renounced Fortuyn's murder as "stupid extremism." 

Fur protest.
If All Else Fails, Harass the Pet-Related AIDS Charity. "The nonprofit has fielded complaints and name-calling from animal-rights fanatics outraged that it would accept money from people poking fun at the Guerneville fur protest. PAL’s board decided it cannot be pulled into politics." .."The money was instead donated to the National Animal Interest Alliance (gee, the animal rights activists must be happy to see NAIA get the money rather than some local animal charity)."  The National Animal Interest Alliance is an animal commerce lobby whose sponsors include: the Fur Commission, Friends of Fur and the National Trappers Association. 

Disinformation concerning Proctor & Gamble's Animal Testing.
Procter and Gamble Abandons Animal Testing, But Activists Still Not Satisfied. Proctor & Gamble is estimated to use up to 50,000 animals per year to test their products. Proctor & Gamble uses approximately 50,000 animals per year to test their products. In 1987 P&G fought a shareholders' resolution that would have eliminated product testing on animals for consumer and household products. In 1989 they attempted to launch a $17.5 million program targeting legislators, school children and the general public promoting animal testing as necessary and humane. In 1990, P&G lobbied against legislation to ban the Draize test in California. "The FD&C Act does not specifically require the use of animals in testing cosmetics for safety, nor does the Act subject cosmetics to FDA premarket approval." The FDA in fact, strongly encourages alternatives to animal testing. Over 600 companies manufacture detergents and cosmetics which are not tested on animals.

IAMS pet products, boycotts of P&G and IAMS.
IAMS pet food is a subsidiary of Proctor & Gamble. Both P&G and IAMS are currently under boycott by various humane societies, rescues and animal advocates. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released an official complaint including: the following violations documented by government inspectors at an P&G/IAMS contract laboratory from 2002 to 2005:. For nearly 10 months in 2002 and early 2003, a PETA investigator went undercover at an IAMS contract testing laboratory. "Our investigator found dogs who had gone crazy from intense confinement in barren steel cages and cement cells, dogs who had been left on a filthy paint-chipped floor after chunks of muscle had been hacked from their thighs, dogs who had been surgically debarked, and horribly sick dogs and cats who were languishing in their cages, neglected and left to suffer without veterinary care." 

Huntington Life Sciences.
Mr. Carnell frequently defends the Huntington Life Sciences contract testing facilities against "extremism" and cannot fathom what all the fuss is about.  P&G contact tests out to Huntington Life Sciences laboratories (New Jersey, Arkansas & England). HLS kills approximately 180,000 dogs, cats rats, rabbits, pigs, and primates (marmosets, macaques, and wild-caught baboons) every year (500 a day) in tests for household cleaners, pesticides, weed killers, cosmetics, food additives and industrial chemicals for tests "only reliable 5 to 25% of the time" one HLS record contends. In one $50,000.00 settlement with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; HLS was charged with 20+ counts of violating anti-cruelty laws. 

Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine.
PCRM and Center for Consumer Freedom Get in Food Fight. "The dispute started when PCRM issued a report rating the healthiest airport food, and singled out Miami international Airport has having the healthiest food of any of the top airports in the Untied States.  CCF responded with a press release noting that PCRM is made up of “anti-meat, pro-vegetarian nutrition zealots.” CCF also pointed out that PCRM is simply an extension of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals."  It is Center for Consumer Freedom making these accusations? Now, activist and animal groups that funded by private donations are required to have "front groups”? "Clinical researcher and author Neal Barnard, M.D., is one of America’s leading advocates for health, nutrition, and higher standards in research. As the principal investigator of several human clinical research trials, whose results are published in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals, Dr. Barnard has examined key issues in health and nutrition. Neal Barnard is the founder and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Dr. Barnard is also president of The Cancer Project, a nonprofit organization advancing cancer prevention and survival through nutrition education and research." Brian Carnell goes on to add:  "Presumably the reason PETA and PCRM can’t stand the CCF press releases is that they are used to surrounding themselves with people like Gary Yourofsky and Jerry Vlasak who outright advocate the murder of those they disagree with. So you just have to see it from their point of view — advocating murder or arson is one thing, but actually issuing a press release is something of a much bigger magnitude. Someone’s feelings might get hurt, after all, from a press release, but if you kill a researcher, well, they’re just dead. That’s the problem with us anti-animal rights folks — we just don’t have this higher level of compassion and understanding that the animal rights people possess." All because Dr. Barnard wanted to rate airport food.  I am guessing that this irrelevant and embarrassing diatribe is what Mr. Carnell would refer to as "debunking".  "Presumably" Dr. Barnard knows more about nutrition than a lobbyist for fast food, tobbacco, alchohol and big pharma.  It is also probable that Dr. Vlasik knows more about "researchers" than Mr. Carnell or CCF.  "Vlasak graduated with an M.D. from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1983. He has widely acknowledged that he is a former animal researcher himself, and saw no problem with it at the time. According to the Los Angeles Times, he conducted research on dogs' arteries in a laboratory at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, during or after which the dogs were killed... Vlasak explained his opposition to animal testing to a U.S. Senate committee in 2005: “Here in the U.S., there are thousands of physicians like myself who realize there is no need to kill animals in order to help humans, the vast majority of whom get sick and die because of preventable lifestyle variables such as diet, smoking, drugs and environmental toxins. In a country where 45 million people do without reliable access to ANY medical care, there is no reason to waste hundreds of millions of dollars testing drugs and procedures on non-human animals. In a world where 20,000 children are dying from lack of access to clean water each week world wide, there is no reason to waste hundreds of millions of dollars testing drugs and procedures on non-human animals." Center for Consumer Freedom promotes unhealthy lifestyles and unsafe animal testing, which kill not one; but millions of people and billions of animals every year.  Who is the real "murderer?"

Ten top Leading causes of death in the US.
Heart Disease, (fats/cholesterol: meat/dairy) Malignant Neoplasms (cancer: toxins/milk/dairy) Medical system (drugs/medical mishaps/incompetence) Cerebro-vascular (milk/dairy) Bronchitis Emphysema Asthma (toxins/milk/dairy) Unintentional Injuries Pneumonia & Influenza (immune systems/mucus) Diabetes (dairy) Highway Accidents Suicide Nephritis (inflammation of kidneys) Liver Disease (alcohol/toxins) 

Deaths from side effects of pharmaceuticals and vaccines.
The Journal of American Medicine reported in 1998 106,000 people a year die from adverse reactions to drugs tested on animals. Researchers from Harvard and Boston Universites concluded that medical measures (drugs and vaccines) accounted for between 1 and 3.5 % of the total decline in mortality rate since 1900. Scores of animals were killed in the quest to find cures for tuberculosis, scarlet fever, small pox and diptheria. Dr. Edward Kass of Harvard Medical School, asserts that the primary credit for the virtual eradication of these diseases must go to improvements in public health, sanitation and general standard of living. Animal data is misleading; animals cannot convey (nausea, dizziness, etc) often serious indicators and because of differences in physiology. Approximately 6,000 children die every year in the US from adverse effects of vaccinations; many more are disabled for life. 

Cancer industry.
"We have a multi-billion dollar industry that is killing people, right and left, just for financial gain. Their idea of research is to see whether two doses of this poison is better than three doses of that poison." Glen Warner, M.D., Oncologist. 

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that the war on cancer is a failure. "Despite $30 billion spent on research since 1970, cancer remains "undefeated," with a death rate not lower but actually higher than when they started. The effect of new treatments for cancer has been largely disappointing. The failure of chemotherapy to control cancer has become apparent even to the oncology establishment." John C. Bailar III, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of the Dept;. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University. 

Other nutritional & environmental studies.
The China Study, For more on milk and osteoporosis.  Also see National Dairy Council. Conditions on factory farms have been documented and studied by welfare, agricultural, environmental, health advocates and veterinarians for 30 years by the Sierra Club,, Worldwatch Inst. (2005),, United Nations, FAO (2006)   and many more. Factory farms are breeding grounds for disease and pollution effecting air and water quality. Employees in are often injured on the fast paced and dangerous environments. Employees and nearby residents complain of respiratory problems, headaches and other illnesses. Factory farmed feed is also laced with massive doses of antibiotics (passed on to humans). This is to say nothing of the unspeakably cruel conditions, illnesses and other factory farm animal issues.

Wasteful & duplicate studies involving sadistic animal experimentation.
During fiscal 2001 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) bankroll roughly 29,441 separate tests on primates, dogs, cats, rats, mice, hamsters, and guinea pigs for an estimated $8.5 billion. Animal research is an extravagantly unregulated business more often in search of a profit than a cure. As the nation's major funding apparatus, NIH awards each university or private lab over $100,000,000 in any given year, asserts Michael Budkie, founder of the Ohio-based Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN). Budkie obsessively tracks federal databases to expose an industry "shrouded in secrecy. We cannot just walk into most laboratories and start asking questions." The list of carbon-copy experiments is endless. Presently, over 60 NIH grants repeat drug addiction studies in primates; 70 grants finance eyesight tests in macaque monkeys; 170 projects examine neural data in macaque monkeys and 90 others rehash the same study in cats. In 2000 the USDA's Animal Welfare Enforcement Report listed 1,416,643 animals as research subjects. This tally doesn't include rats, mice, birds and other non-mammals currently omitted from the Animal Welfare Act. It also doesn't itemize animals confined for breeding or offset under-reported facilities. Budkie compares CRISP (Computer Retrieved Information on Scientific Projects) numbers with other records and undeclared-animal estimates to up the yearly toll to 20,000,000 animals in laboratories. [www.kinshipcircle.org/columns_articles/0029.html]

The trouble with terrorism.
There are serious issues concerning factory farming, pesticides, the medical industrial complex and the pharmaceutical companies and consequential ill health and untimely deaths of hundreds of thousands, not to mentioned massive environmental destruction and chaos. Murder stats in the US are in excess of 16,000 a year, not to mention other non-violent crimes and a prison population in excess of two million. There are 40,000 deaths by car crashes annually in the US and a war which has killed over 4,000 young people and maimed four times that number. Yet, according to Brian Carnell; the most serious threat to US soil is “animal rights terrorism”. Like most propagandists and fear mongers, he peppers virtually every essay with alarming code words like "militant, terrorists, extremists and violence." The fact that the animal rights movement has yet to produce one one death, maiming or serious injury since its inception in the 1970’s, does not seem to deter his unwavering dedication. , (That is to say nothing of the millions of animals and thousands people it has saved through correct dietary and medical information.)  Although there is no question that this is a matter of daily disappointment and chagrin, he is hopeful that one day this rather glaring discrepancy will right itself. 

Movement notable for pacifism and restraint.
Given the massive challenge of institutional animal abuse along with lobbyists and professional hecklers like Brian Carnell, the restraint of animal advocates (in action and print) is remarkable. The animal advocacy ideologies and organizations are pacifists. That is, there are no violent agendas and historically; no serious incidents constituting bodily harm. Anyone engaged in non-violent rescue or interfering in a business or institution which tortures animals may call themselves ALF. ALF has always maintained a strict policy of non-violent action towards both animals and humans. Press releases for Animal Liberation Front (ALF) are listed on its website. 

Associations.

 * Brian Carnell
 * National Animal Interest Alliance
 * Center for Consumer Freedom
 * Berman & Co.
 * David Martosko
 * Richard Berman

Contact
Carnell.Com 824 Village Ct. Kalamazoo, MI 49008 web address:

Phone: 202 250 3712 brian@carnell.com 

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