Stop this animal rights nonsense

Courtesy: fanpop.com
(nothing against this site or this image if it was their work,
just tried to pick up an image of the kind that television ads
use)

I've seen some ads on television lately, with sorry-looking dogs and cats, sad music that should induce pity, all focused on prevention of cruelty towards animals.

A worthy cause? Perhaps. But what riles me up is that these ads (and the organizations that run them?) are all focused on animals that are pet-worthy. What about animals that only provide service to humanity? What about cows, goats, or horses?

I suspect a large number of these animal rights activists are meat-eaters, enjoying a good hamburger or steak. A dog receiving a kick drives these sensitive men and women to tears, but the cow being separated from its calf and taken to the slaughterhouse, or the calf being starved to make its bones chewy only makes them salivate?

By all means, let's stop people from being cruel to pets, but there is such a thing as having extremely lopsided and hypocritical priorities, which appears to me to be the case with people running and supporting these organizations. If there was any real pity for animals, these people would stop animal slaughter and turn vegetarian. At the least, inhuman religion-approved practices such as bleeding animals to death would be what these people should take cudgels to fight.

Next time you come to me with the video of a sad-looking dog and want my money, have the paperwork on your eating habits and acknowledgement of equality of animals ready. Otherwise, you and your "let's save dogs but look the other way when putting cows on buns" organization can go to animal hell.