ITS GENERALLY WISE TO CHECK BEFORE RIDCULING SOMEONE...ESPECIALLY SOMEONE WHOSE DEGREE HONOURS YEAR THESIS WAS ART AND CULTURE IN NAZI GERMANY. CHECK FOR YOURSELF
SUPER ARTICLE BY A FINNISH ACADEMIC
www.kaltio.fi/index.php?494
'he [HIMMLER] also used the concept "animal rights" for the first time in its modern sense in an SS family publication in 1934. '
THE NAZIS INVENTED ANIMAL RIGHTS, BANNED FOXHUNTNG ON THE GROUNDS OF CRUELTY ETC.
HERE IS GOERING;
in banning vivisection too of course, the Nazis also paved the way for human experimentation instead. Labour haven't gone that far I grant you but many labour mps want it banned; and worth remembering that one of Labour's biggest finacial backers when they came to power was PAL...linked to the animal rights orgnisation IFAW...banned incidentally, from he word conservation union. Tony Banks the labour mp's sister ran the thing.
from wikipedia
On coming to power in January 1933, the Nazis passed the most comprehensive set of animal protection laws in Europe.[56] Kathleen Kete of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut writes that it was the first known attempt by a government to break the species barrier, the traditional binary of humans and animals.
On November 24, 1933, the Tierschutzgesetz, or animal protection law, was introduced, with Adolf Hitler announcing an end to animal cruelty: "Im neuen Reich darf es keine Tierquälerei mehr geben." ("In the new Reich, no more animal cruelty will be allowed.") It was followed on July 3, 1934 by the Reichsjagdsgesetz, prohibiting hunting; on July 1, 1935, by the Naturschutzgesetz, a comprehensive piece of environmental legislation; on November 13, 1937, by a law regulating animal transport by car; and on September 8, 1938, by a similar one dealing with animals on trains.[57] The least painful way to shoe a horse was prescribed, as was the correct way to cook a lobster to prevent them from being boiled alive.[58] Several senior Nazis, including Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler, adopted some form of vegetarianism, though by most accounts not strictly, with Hitler allowing himself the occasional dish of meat. Himmler also mandated vegetarianism for senior SS officers.[59]
Shortly before the Tierschutzgesetz was introduced, vivisection was first banned, then restricted. Animal research was viewed as part of "Jewish science," and "internationalist" medicine, indicating a mechanistic mind that saw nature as something to be dominated, rather than respected. Hermann Göring first announced a ban on August 16, 1933, following Hitler's wishes, but Hitler's personal physician, Dr. Morrel, reportedly persuaded him that this was not in the interests of German research,[60] and in particular defence research. The ban was therefore revised three weeks later, on September 5, 1933, when eight conditions were announced under which animal tests could be conducted, with a view to reducing pain and unnecessary experiments.[61] Primates, horses, dogs, and cats were given special protection, and licences to conduct vivisection were to be given to institutions, not to individuals.[62] The removal of the ban was justified with the announcement: "It is a law of every community that, when necessary, single individuals are sacrificed in the interests of the entire body."[63]
Medical experiments were later conducted on Jews and Romani children in camps, particularly in Auschwitz by Dr. Josef Mengele, and on others regarded as inferior, including prisoners-of-war. Because the human subjects were often in such poor health, researchers feared that the results of the experiments were unreliable, and so human experiments would be repeated on animals. Dr Hans Nachtheim, for example, induced epilepsy on human adults and children without their consent by injecting them with cardiazol, then repeated the experiments on rabbits to check the results.[64]
Significance of the German position
The Nazis' position was the first attempt by a government to reject the concept of speciesism, at that point still unnamed, but it produced the worst of all possible outcomes. Rather than elevating the status of non-humans, the Nazis traduced the status of human beings they regarded as enemies.
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of course one could argue that while Labour have banned fur farmng, cherie blair wears real fur....like the nazis, hypocrites to boot.
also worth remembering that labour have thought about eugenics too;
current.com/items/89152708/eugenics_of_tony_blair_bbc_news.htm
Amy's looking particularly well in this shot..
Richard Dunwoody gone up Everest or somewhere to escape him?
