What I got out of all of this was that animals should have some rights, because they are alive as we are. There are some animals that are raised specifically for eating, but the lives they get to live should be as full as ours. Animals are not given any chance to live, learn, etc. People just think that animals are below them, so they must be stupid. All they know is the lives we have given them. We have created a life where they are born, stripped of their families, locked up in dark, hot rooms until its slaughter time. I don't want to give up meat, but I think that if we are allowed to live our lives to the fullest, why not the animals? Are they not entitled to as much fun/freedom as we are? If given the chance I think animals have potential to do some things we would not expect them to. We might call it mimicry, but we don't know that for a fact. I also think that the characteristics that some animals in the wild show are the actual emotions. How else would wild animals learn these emotions? When the elephants young die they grieve, and I doubt the elephants have been to many funerals, so how else would they learn to grieve, if they didn't already know/express this emotion? Animals deserve at least some rights. For example the right to a fufilled life. They have purposes such as to feed humans or other animals but when they are in the wild they have a chance of survival. In captivity, they realize their fate and can't do anything about it. In the wild they were capable of living a normal life, with their families, finding their food, etc. Once it is their time to be somethings lunch, at least they were able to have those things. In captivity, their lives are dark, hot, and waiting to be slaughtered, they have nothing fufilling, and I believe they have that right!
Wow! So much said, I hope I made my point clear...
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Aha. What if all humans
and animals could speak
one language. Trippy. aha.
Who would be the top of the
food chain then?
Because animals might die at such an old age we can't just wait for them to live their enitre lives. But I think the way to solve
the problem is to go back to hunting and gathering. Yet that has issues in itself.
♥peace
-betty siercke
I should bring in this song from the 1980s by Tonio K entitled "The Good Life on the Food Chain." If I remember, I will.
hmm...I agree that animals have the right to be treated as humans. But at the same time, the idea of giving the pigs a toy to play with and giving each pig (mind you there are probably like hundreds)20 seconds of human contact seems pointless.
Although I would really like for animals to have a better life than being destined as "dinner" some of the solutions seem over the top.
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