Here kitty, kitty, kitty...

About the only people I dislike more than religious nutters are bunny huggers. I don't know what cartoon world they live in, but the rest of us on planet Earth eat, wear, and yes, occasionally dissect animals. "Animal rights" kooks are moralistic Luddites and every bit as dangerous to modern society as their religious fundamentalist counterparts. Nothing screams, "I choose to remain ignorant of my surroundings and how life works and damnit, so so should everyone else!" quite like people who refuse to acknowledge the usefulness of dissection and animal testing.

Ledy VanKavage, a Collinsville-based attorney for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, released a statement Sunday, calling it "unconscionable" to offer such a course.On Monday, she said she was relieved the class had been canceled. Many students have cats as pets, and creating a "mini-course" about a cat's anatomy trivialized the subject, she said.There are other ways to teach anatomy, she said, such as by computer and anatomic models.

Bullshit. For young people actually interested in anatomy and biology, models don't even come close to hands on experience. And what the heck does having cats as pets have to do with anything? I wonder if Ms VanKavage knows where the cats used in biology classes even come from. I doubt she knows or cares that most of them come from animal shelters that put cats in trash cans and then gas them with carbon monoxide.

If she thinks teaching the next generation of doctors and scientists is "unconscionable", I'd hate to see what she thinks an actual horror is. But then people like her don't give a rip about real people. Cute little kitties pay her salary, not children who die of luekemia.