“A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”
The notorious slogan popularized by animal-rights trailblazer Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, symbolized a new frontier in left-wing activism: a frontal assault on the Western, biblical presumption that God created man above the animals, to have dominion over them and the whole earth:
“Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'” (Genesis 1:26)
The anti-“speciesism” sloganeering by “animal rights” crusaders beginning in the 1980s engendered plenty of snickering, mockery and outrage among everyday Americans. Conservatives made bumper-stickers redefining PETA as “People Eating Tasty Animals,” and Jewish groups excoriated PETA for running ads comparing livestock headed for slaughter to victims of Hitler’s Holocaust.
But perhaps Newkirk, now 73, is getting the last laugh as “mainstream” science is echoing her radical ideology, maybe even going beyond it, minus PETA’s polemical hard edge. (A photo of Newkirk on her personal website show her at a protest next to a placard that reads, “No Speciesism. No Transphobia. No Xenophobia. End All Oppression. PETA.”)
The increasingly “woke” British journal the Lancet has launched a new campaign rooted in the same animal-human-(plant?) egalitarianism that spawned the “animal rights” movement more than four decades ago. It admits its new approach, which it calls “One Health,” is “revolutionary” as it takes dead aim at the foundational Judeo-Christian understanding of a human-centered world.
“Modern attitudes to human health take a purely anthropocentric view — that the human being is the centre of medical attention and concern. One Health places us in an interconnected and interdependent relationship with non-human animals and the environment,” states the Jan. 21 Lancet editorial entitled, “A call for ecological equity.”
“The consequences of this thinking entail a subtle but quite revolutionary shift of perspective: all life is equal, and of equal concern.”
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Revolutionary, indeed. All life? Are cattlemen and chicken-farmers mass-murderers? Should meat industry leaders be tried by international “species rights” tribunals? Leaving aside the supposed “rights” of animals, is it immoral for humans to mow their lawns? Is it injurious to “ecological equity” to kill spiders in our homes? Such questions may seem preposterous and have nothing to do with medicine, but they could be addressed in future issues of the Lancet, because if modern history tells us anything, it is that yesteryear’s “extreme ideologies” becomes today’s “mainstream” sentiment.
The Lancet editorial states that although its four-part series is intended to focus on pandemic preparedness following the worldwide COVID crisis, “One Health goes way beyond emerging infections and novel pathogens; it is the foundation for understanding and addressing the most existential threats to societies including antimicrobial resistance, food and nutrition insecurity, and climate change.”
The editorial concludes, “The reality is that One Health will be delivered in countries, not by concordats between multilateral organisations, but by taking a fundamentally different approach to the natural world, one in which we are as concerned about the welfare of non-human animals and the environment as we are about humans. In its truest sense, One Health is a call for ecological, not merely health, equity.”
The journal’s equity-on-steroids campaign drew the attention of Breitbart News, inspiring plenty of comments by befuddled readers.
“By their own words, those in charge at the Lancet seem to have given up their publication’s mission of promoting the health and welfare of the human race, which is the prime role for medicine and public health. If that is indeed the case, then why are they still in business?” commented “LuciusAnnaeusSeneca.”
“I’ve accepted the fact that there is a very terminal case of stupidity running through the human race. My biggest concern now is its level of contagion,” wrote “Cletus Servetus.”
The publication’s evolution towards what might be called “species neutrality” in the name of science has apparently been going on for several years, as the journal’s website is peppered with tendentious jargon that essentially demotes humans from their dominant position on the earth.
For example, a 2020 Lancet paper entitled, “Reconnecting for our future: The Lancet One Health Commission,” uses the phrase: “The apparent dominance of the human species comes with a huge responsibility,” as if humans’ control of the earth (from a worldly, not spiritual perspective) is somehow in question.
Speciesism is the idea that it’s okay for humans to tear other animals away from their families, torture them on farms, kill them, & eat their bodies just because they’re a different species.
It’s discrimination & it’s wrong.
— PETA (@peta) January 17, 2023
EDITOR’S NOTE: What is behind the current war against America’s children? Why are so many adults killing their unborn children right up to the moment of birth, or even after? Why are millions of kids sexualized virtually from birth, and injected with an experimental “vaccine” proven to be both ineffective and dangerous, then as toddlers transported to events glorifying mentally ill, demonically possessed men dressed as women?
Why are America’s children systematically sexualized at school, and by transgender recruiters on social media platforms like TikTok, seducing many into “identifying” as the opposite gender, or a brand-new imaginary gender, then encouraged to take powerful drugs and hormones and have their healthy breasts amputated or undergo chemical or surgical castration?
Why are our children simultaneously indoctrinated with toxic Marxist ideologies like “critical race theory” intended to condition them to hate and reject their own country, parents, faith, race, gender and themselves? Why are they simultaneously being frightened of the future by being fed lurid, terrifying – and groundless – apocalyptic tales of the imminent destruction of the world due to global warming?
No wonder youth suicides have skyrocketed, as have depression, anxiety, addiction and drug overdoses. Indeed, fentanyl, the No. 1 cause of death of younger Americans 18 to 45, destroys multitudes of children annually.
Make no mistake: The harm being done to America’s children in this multi-front war is not accidental: Children are the primary target.
WHY? How can all this be happening in the greatest nation on earth? Who and what is behind it? And HOW CAN IT BE STOPPED?
Find out in the explosive January issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine, “WINNING THE WAR AGAINST AMERICA’S CHILDREN,” available in both print and state-of-the-art digital editions.
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