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Article: Some animal rights can burn out of control.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- November 17, 1996
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Animal rights extremists once again have demonstrated their view of what's right for America.
Ask the Bloomington firefighters who last week found themselves risking their lives to douse a fire apparently set as a memorial to dead animals.
Ask the FBI agents who last week searched the damage in the Alaska Fur Co. store for clues to the arson.
Thirty years ago animal humane organizations campaigned against mistreatment of animals, largely pets and farm animals. In those days, the activists were seen as "little ol' ladies in tennis shoes."
In the past three decades, however, concern for animal welfare evolved into a concept of animal rights, zealously pushed ...