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I think people at the end of this century won't believe how we treated the other life forms on this planet--the industrialized genocide (factory farms), the prisons (zoos), the ethnic cleansing (habitat loss and slaughter), the belief that humans could own other creatures and do with them what they pleased. You have only to witness the vitriol and hatred directed at animal rights organizations to know a nerve has been hit. Animal rights (I don't like this term "animal," for it implies that somehow man is apart from and above other creatures) is the next great cause, and we are in its early days. And there is real risk in standing up for animals, much like there was for standing up for blacks in the 50's or gays in the 70's.