The Rights Of Animals

Excellent Article!! Thanks Peter !
Most of us are ignorant & insensitive towards animals !! Only few courageous people can go against the wind of ignorant society to make such an assertive point !
Humans are superior ... does not make them God. Animal have the right of respect that most human do not grant.... Such a shame :-(
Thanks Californians !!! You are leading again..... a moral spirit of America !!!

I think it was a great article and it is encouraging that people are opening their minds to animal rights. We do have a long way to go

"Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they???re only animals."

 Theodor W. Adorno quotes ( philosopher, 1903-1969)

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 Theodor W. Adorno quotes ( philosopher, 1903-1969)

Enter Your CommentDear Over 5th Gen, Why are you comparing microbes to animals such as chickens, cows and lambs. If you raise these animals and can't tell the difference between viruses and animals then maybe you should reevaluate what you understand and maybe take up knitting and buy your food at the store. Or....why don't you go vegan and leave the animals alone.

Well that's just stupid. Do we extend rights to microbes? Flu viruses have a right to propagate too, as do HIV and syphilis. And it all should be able to expand and grow and be *happy* damnit. Just like us thoughtful bipeds. I raise my own beef and my own lamb (yep, I'm a baby killer...) and I eat the unborn, in the form of chicken eggs. I must be evil incarnate. Oh wait. I give them room to move, so I must be an okay Joe. Sorry, I thought you were talking about cruelty to animals. It's okay to raise them and then kill 'em and chop 'em up. Just be humane about it. Let them turn around. I know the chickens apprecaite it.

How ironic that Peter Singer teaches at Princeton University. Each and every year, the township that Princeton University calls home, Princeton Township NJ, is responsible for the most brutal and most inhumane massacre of deer. The method used is "net and bolt" in which the deer are trapped in large nets and, while they struggle for their freedom in these awful traps, they are bolted in the head. The vast majority of Princeton residents support this annual practice and justify it by the fact that deer eat certain plants (that should never be grown in deer habitat) and are hit by cars in a town where the maximum speed limit rarely exceeds 35 mph. They also claim that deer spread lyme disease. My dogs passed lyme disease to me, but I elected not to net and bolt them. Call me "humane".

The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated. - Gandhi

I already buy only cage-free eggs, meat from cage-free chickens, and fish from ethical and environmentally-sound hatcheries. This is a movement long overdue and I look forward to the positive legal changes on behalf of those animals we eat and those we do not.

I do agree that animals should have rights, but not rights as humans.. that's just not how God intended it. Animals are on this planet for man to rule over, and to use for food. This is the natural order of God's intentions with animals. Should animals have adequate living spaces? Yes. Should they be well feed, loved and taken care of? Yes. Is it wrong to kill a cow for steak? No. Is it wrong to use animals to test medicine on? Yes. Animals are simply to be used for means of food, not science. They are not a playground nor test subjects for whatever means.

Why are plants less sacred than animals? Why the random, irrational prejudice and bigotry? Doesn't everything come from the same planet/galaxy/universe? Why do we need to discriminate? And why should humans be the ones to judge?

We are here as stewards of the planet. We have to be, we live here. However, I do not subscribe to the notion that the MINORITY should make rules for the MAJORITY. If you want to be vegan, by all means, but when you start making rules that affect how I can feed myself or my family based on your beliefs, then I have to draw the line. The time has come for those of us in the majority to put to bed the notion that if you whine loud enough your Nazi mentality will apply to all. In a Democratic Repulic like ours, the majority is SUPPOSED to RULE, not visa-versa.

We are here as stewards of the planet. We have to be, we live here. However, I do not subscribe to the notion that the MINORITY should make rules for the MAJORITY. If you want to be vegan, by all means, but when you start making rules that affect how I can feed myself or my family based on your beliefs, then I have to draw the line. The time has come for those of us in the majority to put to be the notion that if you whaine loud enough your Nazi mentality will apply to all.

What a load of nonsense.

It's Corporate America that influences the vast majority of people regarding what they wear, think, and eat. Their lobbyists' access to politicians will continue more or less unabated, and thus, so will their influence, in legislation, subsidy, and rhetoric. While I see a burgeoning mainstream animal issues movement (do we really need to say "non-human" animals?) afoot, more and more are signing on along the lines of "animal welfare", as described by etbmfa previously, animal raising, meat-eating, pet-owning and leather- and fur-wearing has been around for centuries--and always will be. Hell, there are people who will do it just because others want it stopped--like cigarette smoking; that's never going away no matter how expensive or inaccessible--or dangerous. Comparitively, meat-eating is nothing like that.