The problem is not that we eat animals or use them for tests,the problem is we make them suffer,have any of you seen any secret footage of what goes on in animal test/vivisection centres.If you would have seen some of the bad stuff then maybe you would be as disturbed as i am about the subject.
Animal rights is absurd. Even in the animal kingdom, before the existence of man, it was survival of the fittest. Now, it should remain with the pesence of man. We have been very generous to the animals on this planet. We have done our best to conserve our resources and save animals from extinction by natural selection or human intervention. We even reduce our pollution levels to help save speices and their habitats. But to halt animal testing when a cure for a disease is possible is ludacris. If there ever was found to be a successful use of animal testing for any disease or disorder or drug, then we should exploit it for the sake of saving the human race. This is the way that the animal kingdom has always been. Who are we to interrupt the natural flow of the world? We must continue to live by the age old philosophy of survival of the fittest, for that is animal rights as it always has been.
This letter is in response to gshold. You are correct, only in regards that there are many problems in the world. However, you are wrong that the incessant, disgusting abuse of animals isn't one of them. I think that addressing and spending some time to stop the exploitation of one type of beings is just as important, whether those beings are sentient, nonhumans animals or humans. Besides, the slaughter of 28 billion animals annually in USA for food is an enormous concern for us all! Health: 70 % of all antibiotics produced in USA go into the feed of livestock. Due to this massive amount of drugs going into these animals, whom are then eaten, there has been substantial evidence that a myriad of human antibiotic resistant viruses have come into existence! Aside from the antibiotics, hormones are fed to the dairy cows( who are sent to the slaughterhouse once their milk production declines) to keep them pregnant, and producing milk. Milk from these factory farm cows is tainted with pesticides, and hormones that they indubitably seep into our drinking milk. I could talk forever regarding the direct health effects meat has on our bodies( NOt to mention that meateaters have a higher chance of dying from the number one US killer, Heart disease. But our environment also suffers. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reports that animal agriculture heavily contributes to acid rain, greenhouse gases, watershied contamination, and decreased biodiversity(due to clearcutting of forests to make room for factory farms.) Last but not least, these animals suffer unneccesarily, which is the highest atrocity. Take for instance, chickens are stuffed 8 in a cage, so that they are never able to spread their wings. Many are forced to live in their own waste, which the ammonia from their feces have deleterious health impacts on their respiratory systems. Since these sentient animals are living in egregious conditions, abnormal dangerous behavior is prevalent. Because the chickens resort to pecking violently at one another(an example of neurotic behavior), the meat industry has come up with a brilliant solution to this problem! They've decided to cut their beaks off with 1500 degree farenheit knives(without anesthesia). The slaughter of these chickens is even more horrific. Since their death is done under mechanic knives, they are often conscious when their throats are slit, or when they are electricuted. To make a long lecture short. My feelings are best expressed in the words of the late Jeremy Bentham: "The question is not,'Can they reason?' nor,'Can they talk?', but rather 'Can they suffer?'"
Ingrid Newkirk, National Director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA, based in Norfolk, Virginia, is one of the most active animal extremist groups, with direct links to the terrorist Animal Liberation Front.)
"I don't believe human beings have the right to life. That's a supremacist perversion. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." --Audubon, Nov. 1990.
"Even if animal tests produced a cure [for AIDS], we'd be against it." -- Vogue, Sept. 1989.
" Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses." --Washington Post, Nov. 13, 1983.
"You can't legally deface someone's property--but if you're somewhere and no one's looking, go ahead" -- Animal Rights '97Conference, July 1997.
"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation." -- Harpers, Aug. 1988.
Wayne Pacelle, Vice-President of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS operates out of Washington, D.C., and "strongly" opposes any type of hunting.) "If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would."-- Associated Press, Dec. 30, 1991. "We want to stigmatize hunting, we see it as the next logical target and we believe it is vulnerable." -- Field & Stream,June 1991.
"Having hunters oversee wildlife is like having Dracula guard the bloodbank." - Field & Stream, June 1991.
Michael W. Fox, Vice-President, Humane Society of the United States "We're not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals." -- Washingtonian, Feb. 1990.
"The life of an ant and the life of my child should be granted equal consideration." -- Inhumane Society, Fox Publications.
"Only a few of the million you kill would of [sic] bitten you." (Expressing opposition to the use of bug sprays) --Returning to Eden, Fox Publications.
Cleveland Armory, Founder, The Fund For Animals (The Fund for Animals is a New York City-based group that focuses on getting animal extremists appointed to state wildlife commissions.)
"Hunting is an antiquated expression of macho self-aggrandizement,with no place in a civilized society." -- U.S. News & World Report, Feb. 5, 1990.
"These blood thirsty nuts claim they provide a service to the environment. Nonsense! A hunter goes into the woods to kill something, period" -- U.S. News & World Report, Feb. 5,1990.
Rod Coronado, Animal Liberation Front/Earth First! (The Animal Liberation Front is a terrorist group first organized in England. Its terrorist acts in the U.S. can be traced back to 1982.)
"Launch your own campaign against the fur industry . . . Find a fur shop in your area and smash or etch its windows. Liquid steel ruins locks; Bomb threats only cost a quarter. If you live in an area where furs are worn, fill a squirt bottle with red dye or battery acid and let fly. If you're presentable enough to get into a fur shop department store, take a razor blade and slash the coats." --Earth First! Newsletter, Vol. xii, #2, 1991.
(Note: Rod Coronado is currently serving time in a Federal penitentiary for arson of a research facility at Michigan State University.)
David Forman, Co-Founder of Earth First! (Earth First! is a radical environmental group based in New York and New Mexico.)
"I think the whole concept of private property as an ultimate good has got to be replaced. There's a higher good out there than private property." -- Animal Rights Reporter, June 1989.
Sinope, you're right, I was just messing around. I realize that all life is interconnected in world ecosystem, and I'm aware of the cruelty towards animals inherent in the process turning them from living creatures to just meat. My brothers are vegans, I've heard what happens to the animals. I know there are many alternatives to meat (some things made with tofu are really good, despite how uncooked tofu looks...) but those aren't really practical for many people still living with their families. You'd have to buy it, cook your own meal, and so on. So maybe it's not terribly difficult, but I'm lazy... So I just have this to say: I know where you're coming from, but some people aren't bothered or concerned enough to become a vegetarian or an animal rights activist. I guess it just boils down to apathy. And to answer your last question... I confess, at times when I've been fairly hungry I have gazed longingly at my cat's tail and envisioned sausage links, or at her body seeing at least the equivalent of a chicken breast. However, I don't think a lot of pets are big enough to even constitute an appetizer, really.
Actually, I'm not so easily convinced that Native Americans were complete saints compared to us -- in Utah, archaeologists have found a site where something like 50 buffalos were apparently chased off a cliff in one hunt.
Other than that, sinope, I totally agree with everything you said.
Nice word play (surely unintentional). People fail to realize that everything is interconnected. It says alot about a person and the way they live their life, if they will go out of their way to squash an ant; read between the lines. PETA and other animal rights activists just try to raise social awarness about the treatment of animals.... maybe not ants specifically but to fact that there is industrial farms that assembly line style bleat cows (slicing the throat to let all the blood out) while they're still alive.
Stuffing 20 chickens in a little box, and cutting their beaks off, so they don't eat each other.
Activists just see something wrong w/ the disrespection toward life and lack of compassion toward living creatures of all spieces; including our own. If you can look at another LIVING creature, and actually feel a sense of superiority over that creature; i ask you to thoughtfully reconsider, because most likely your attitude towards animals reflects the person you are and radiates in everything you do.
I know there's hunters and people who'll say, "Don't we have to eat!!!!!" Would you eat your pets?? WHy not??? If you were starving would you????? most likely.......i would to if my dog didn't eat me first. i'm not talking about survival... i'm talking about excessivily surving, in a gluttonous, greedy society due to the "taker" mentality. Native Americans hunted and killed animals....but they understood the balance, thanked the animal for sacrificing it's life so they may survive, utilized every scrap of the animal, and took no more than was needed. White men killed the buffalo for fun and practically wiped them out.
Next time your petting your pet, or talking to them, think about hanging um on a meathook, gutting them, and throwing cunks on the grill; UMMMMMMMMMM.
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