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Animal rights - protest gone too far?
In a recent spell of protests about animal rights, one incident caught my eye.
In England somewhere, an animal rights group took it upon itself to terrorise the owners of a guinea pig farm. The farm bred guinea pigs for scientific research labs, and the animal rights group, instead of protesting to the government, launched a vendetta on the family who owned the farm. The farm was closed after the protesters stole the buried body of the owner's mother from her mother's grave. They are now facing prosecution, but it's really nothing serious.
Do you think they should have done that? Why were the family not protected, and why were they allowed to be terrorised to the point of graverobbing? Were the animal rights people fighting for a just cause, something worthy enough of putting a family through such trauma?
(Also, on a personal note, I think they were being incredibly stupid from a protesting standpoint. If you're trying to change someone's opinion on something, God, don't dig up their dead mother, they will not see your point of view that way.)
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