Animal Rights

One who comes from a Third World country can't help beeing amazed by the dedication of animal rights advocates in this country. I was particularly shocked by the reaction of an animal rights group which denounced Sean Puffy Combs four years ago, because while having his birthday party, the artist allowed the organizers to put some light bubble too close to a bunch of birds they were using to embellish the event.

The spokesperson for the animal group stressed out what she called the insensitivity of the artists to the suffering of the birds. At that time, I was visiting from Haiti, and I wondered what this lady would say if she saw how we treated poor people in my country.

But I stopped my stream of thought at the realizaton that thanks to Global television, the lady could no longer argue that she's not aware of those facts. I think that there is a huge hypocrisy surrounding some animal rights advcates. If you are so sensitive as to care so much for animals, how can you be so careless about those children who are dying from starvation in Africa, or those in the neighbooring Haiti who are dying because they can't afford a 20 dollar-tablet?

I am not at all insensitive to animal rights, but I think that there must be a limit to the excess of its most vocal advocates.