While we are on the subject....

..of animal rights, a recent post on samizdata proves interesting reading. I have no problem at all with the notion of animal welfare in so far as people have a duty of care to animals that they come into contact with. To put it glibly, animal rights is the invention of people who watched Watership Down and used this as a basis for a philosophy. The two concepts are quite separate and not necessarily as mutually inclusive as the animal rights (i.e. militant vegans) industry declare.