Hypocrisy abounds.

I don't know if any of you have been following this trial or not. I have because I have always been an advocate of animal welfare (as opposed to animal "rights"). I was flat out floored by this statement - made by one of the defense attorneys.

"Hirschkop said the pair dumped the animals because they had other stops to make and the animals often started to smell before they got back to Norfolk, where PETA has facilities for cremating animals.
"They never should have done it," he said. "But this is not the crime of the century."

Now let me get this straight...2 people employed by an organization that equates the raising of farm animals for food with the Nazi Holocaust are charged with the slaughter of 31 adoptable dogs and he says "this is not the crime of the century"? Riiiiggghhhttt...so it's ok to kill the animals because you are doing it, but no one else can. I see....

This is why I rag on groups like PETA and ALF and the fringes of the environmental rights movement and the womens movement. The more they believe in their cause as a religion - as a "higher purpose" the more hypocritical they are. A little common sense and logic would do these folks a world of good. Granted I seriously doubt that will ever happen.