(March 25, 2014 at 7:37 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Oh dear. I really don't think these people are doing veganism or animal rights activism any favours.
Quote:Arson, Cracked Testicles, and Internet Death Threats: How Animal Rights Extremists Are Learning From the People Who Murdered George Tiller
Jordan Heller 1/16/13 4:30pm
"We will...strap you into a monkey restraining device and use industrial pliers to crack your testicles like walnuts." That was the simple message that medical researcher Dr. Donal O'Leary received in October 2011.
The note, which threatened to kidnap O'Leary and went on to reference myriad tortures including dismemberment, disembowelment, Drano and napalm, was published on Negotiation Is Over (NIO), a website that acts as a one-stop shop for animal rights extremists looking to gather intelligence on potential targets. In addition to labeling O'Leary—a professor at Detroit's Wayne State University whose studies on congestive heart failure involve experiments on rodents and occasionally dogs—a sadistic animal torturer, it published his photo and home address.
In an email to O'Leary alerting him of the post, Camille Marino, who until last month ran NIO out of her home in Wildwood, Fla., told the professor that some of her "associates" would be paying him a visit to take pictures of his home.
"Then you can join ‘NIO's most wanted,'" she wrote. "I hope you die a slow and painful death."
Full article HERE
That is some biblical old testament justice right there!
I'm not a vegan. In fact I'm not even a vegetarian. But I think its important to differentiate between veganism and vegan diet. The meat industry is responsible for enormous resource waste and from what I've seen, it is also a large contributor to the emission of greenhouse gases due to various reasons. I think it is highly likely that eating vegan could contribute to preventing this.
Veganism seems to be another matter. It is some kind of quasi-religious nonsense, for the most part it seems. 'Veganists' are difficult to discuss with, because they seem to be willing to blurt out any kind of half-truth or misinterpreted data. Many of them are clearly driven by misguided morals. The people mentioned in the article seem to be a good example of this.