Animal rights? What about human rights?

Animals should be treated with care just as everything in God's beautiful creation. However, animals are not more important than human beings. If just half the energy and dollars generated by animal rights activists was used for the defense of the unborn and the starving then I might give their cause a second look. I can't seem to muster any compassion for those who fight to save a baby seal but never lift a finger to defend God's gift of life. One more thing to add to my list of petitions.