Good points, Richard!
Man, isn't it amazing how much DISinformation is out there ... and, unfortunately, "if it's on the internet, it must be true!".
Wonder how many converts the enviro-wackos would recruit if they ever researched and divulged the truth instead of the crap they spew.
Let's see now ... it's a proven "fact" that silicone breat implants kill, deform and just generally amnoy women ... must be true since totally unbiased lawyers say so, right? Of course ... research and science keeps saying the opposite ... but are you going to believe a scientist or a lawyer?
Drilling in ANWR will destroy caribou ... every environmentalist knows that. Wonder how many of then have ever been to ANWR ... much less in the winter when you might be able to drill or build on that muskeg? Or in the summer when the air is so thick with black flies and skeeters that you literally can't breathe without inhaling insects. Wonder how the drilling would affect the caribou when they'll be thousands of miles away in the eastern arctic? Heck, who cares ... we can't let science get in our way ... we'll publish some pictures of cute little baby seals off Newfoundland ... no one will notice the difference.
Bridget Bardot and her idiot squad spend their time throwing paint on little old ladies who wear mink stoles .... forget the fact that the mink are farm raised expressly to be slaughtered for their hides ... yeah, somewhat like we treat beef cattle. Now I believe that leather is made from animal skins too ... ever see an animal-freak that dared to throw paint at a biker wearing leathers??
Sorry folks ... the fact that a bunch of rabid anti-civilization nutcases retread the same old tired data again and again on the internet and in the funnypapers don't make it true ... any more than all the lies and statistics (oops sorry that's redundant .. statistics are lies) prove that guns kill people and we would be better off without them.
Before I accept any author as a credible authority ... I do a little research on them ... and the animal rights groups have not demonstrated ANY credibility so far. (Nor have the NOW cows, gun-grabbers or slavery-reparations freakazoids).
If an article shocks the heck out of you ... think about why you just heard about something that shocking .... is it really possible that nothing would have leaked out years and years ago? Do you really think that everyone who works for the drug labs, the ranches supplying them, the drivers that deliver supplies, etc, etc ... everyone of them was a sadist who didn't care? I find that almost as unlikely as Clinton having a conscience. (any of the Clintons, for that matter)
too bad that common sense ain't
