Animal Rights
"Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife--birds, kangaroos, deer,
all kinds of cats, coyotes, groundhogs, mice, foxes and dingoes--by the million
in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic
animals by the billion and eats them. This in turn kills man by the million,
because eating all those animals leads to degenerative--and fatal--health
conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures
and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere,
millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition
because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. ...
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admit it. Like a newborn baby learning to play with others we must
learn to share the planet with animals.
One of the main issues being disputed today with animal right, is
SUPERIORITY. Over 7 Billion animals die at the hands of humans, in the US,
every year. Out of those 7 Billion animals, about 95% of them are killed for
uses as food. Advocates for animal rights justify their research by presenting
the obvious differences that exist between humans and animals. These include
size, status, strength, and ability. Sometimes, one who is against animal rights
will take the attitude that “God gave them [animals] to us to use.” What these
researchers fail to recognize is PAIN. All creatures are capable of feeling
pain. If a creature is capable of experiencing the pain then they too can wish
for the pain to end. That right, along with many others, of animals is being
denied to them even as we speak. Animals have a few basic rights which should
be observed by all, no matter what ...
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to keep them
there, not because they truly belong there. Once we have an animal caged and
restrained, we suddenly gain an even greater feeling of superiority over the
animal. No matter what laws exist, experimentation will continue. This is
because the experimenter's imagination is endless. Our containing the animals
can be related to one's enslavery of another human being.
One way in which many domesticated, yet homeless, animals are brought to
laboratories is through Pound Seizure. Pound Seizure is a law which requires
shelters/pounds to sell, “extra” animals to experimenters. As a result of
Pound Seizure, 200,000 stray/homeless cats and dogs die at the hands of
researchers ...
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