Collin Levey’s WSJ Opinion Journal article, “Anticircus Freaks,” contains wonderful words of social defiance from Ringling Bros. producer Kenneth Feld. Feld has begun taking on such bullying special interest groups as PETA by fighting their nuissance suits in court, usually successfully:

‘A small group of extremists does not have the right to impose their radical views on the people […] to prevent the majority, who want to see animals in the circus, from doing so.’

Good for the Greatest Show. I always feel so demoralized when I hear of some sanctimonious advocacy group who’s succeeded in extorting money (or empty public “apologies”) from a legitimate business that, understandably, fears a shrieking PR smear campaign. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition, for instance, recently bilked Toyota out of a cool 7 mil — the going price of tribute big businesses must pay to avoid the “racist” label, I guess…

Message to the PETA-philes: If God didn’t want us to eat animals, he wouldn’t have made them out of meat.

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