A 2015 Gallup Poll found that the number of Americans who believe animals should have the same rights as people has increased. In 2008, 25 percent of Americans believed animals should have the same rights as people. By 2015, that number had risen to 32 percent. What’s most disturbing, however, is that the PragerU videoed found people think animals should have more rights than humans – specifically the right to life.
Americans love animals and treat their pets as children. Meanwhile, actual children are being treated as disposable. They are being killed by the thousands on a daily basis. Their bodies are being used for research (a no-no for animals according to animal rights organization PETA) or simply discarded with the medical waste. It’s abhorrent, but as G.K. Chesterson wrote in “On Seriousness,” the two go hand in hand:
Wherever there is Animal Worship there is Human Sacrifice. That is, both symbolically and literally, a real truth of historical experience.