On Secondhand Smoke, Wesley Smith ponders the new practice of Creating Sick Pigs to Help Make Humans Well , and decides, “without joy or relish,” that it is necessary because “it is either risk mice—or as in this case, pigs—or endanger humans. So which matters more, us or animals? I vote, us.”
For a range of opinion on a similar subject, see Do Animals Have Rights? from the Washington Post ‘s On Faith feature.
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