The British Animal Rights Nazis are on the March

The Times Higher Education Supplement in Britain reports that the British government is urging universities to be on high alert for attacks by animal rights extremists as it emerged that Oxford University is prefabricating its new £18 million animal research facility on a secret site away from the city.

Britain's animal rights kooks are even nuttier and more violent then those in other places. Work on the construction site was for Oxford's labs was halted last July after extremists targeted the contractors in a campaign that included sending threatening letters. The government's Research Defence Society is appointing a senior person to co-ordinate the fight against animal rights extremism across British universities.

The animal rights people are getting more and more insane. PETA, the main animal rights lobby in the US (PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but I have argued for years that it really should call itself People for the Equitable Treatment of Animals ) has not only comparing the eating of meat to the Holocaust of Jews, most notably with its recent scurrilous "Holocaust on your Plate" campaign. Interestingly, a number of neonazi and Holocaust Denial web sites have picked up on the PETA campaign against kosher practices to denounce Jews and Judaism in general .

A while back, the leader of PETA said she had drawn up a will directing that her flesh be barbecued and her skin used to make leather products in protest at man's ill-treatment of animals. Ingrid Newkirk, 53, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said that she had chosen to donate her body to her organization for use in a variety of protests. Newkirk also suggested that her feet be removed and made into umbrella stands similar to those made from elephant feet that she had seen as a child. She earlier had stated: "A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy," and so, it thus follows, "Medical research is immoral even if it's essential. Even if animal testing produced a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it." And best of all: "Six million people died in concentration camps," she told the Washington Post, "but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses."

A few years back, one of PETA's sister groups in Los Angeles called itself JIHAD for Justice through Insurrection by Humans for Animal Defense. A new counter-PETA group, by the way, is now available on the internet, also calling itself PETA, but this counter-PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals.