Animal Rights

Animal rights groups are doing tankless and noble work, but some hurt their cause by claiming animals and fish are not ours to eat or wear.  Animals eat each other – some while they are still alive.  They are going to die someday.  We end the lives of pets who are suffering.  We end the lives of people who have no hope of recovery – ‘right to die’.  If we properly handle animals we can end their lives when they are near their end in ways that are more humane than what they would suffer otherwise.  Then what’s wrong with eating their meat or using their fur?  Nothing.  Tying it with vegetarianism doesn’t help either.

Other suggestions: Use less emotion, extreme deadlines and gore in your solicitations.  These cause ‘compassion fatigue’ and a decrease in donations.  Promote ANIMAL PLANET, ANIMAL COPS, and similar shows on TV.  Clarify loaded terms like ‘slaughter’ and ‘puppy mills’.  Suggest animal courts sentence offenders to the same conditions their animals were in for some time – without a danger to their health.  Point out the countries that treat animal more humanly – England, New Zealand, Switzerland and Austria.  Point out the endangered species that have rebounded, like buffalo.  Point out the extreme lack of empathy some people have for people and animals.  Show how the golden rule applies – how many of us would like to be the animal’s position.  Enlist the aid of religions.

Ban: – Roadside zoos – Live creatures in entertainment  [magic and circuses]  – Blood sports  [bullfighting, dogfights, cockfighting, bird fighting etc.] – Rodeos, especially prison rodeos  – Foie gras and similarly produced food  – Cutting dog’s tails, etc.                    #