This kind of crap is why I generally don’t give a fig about animal rights. I’ll never understand the people who will curtail 1,000 civil rights in an effort to reduce harm, but who think random charismatic megafauna are more important than potentially millions of humans.

Yes, by all means, treat animals humanely. And give more consideration to species capable of more advanced forms of suffering. But when the question is “who’s more important, us or them?”, we win, every time. FDA halts monkey research denounced by Jane Goodall as ‘shameful’